The Foreign Page: Throngs Honor Murdered Gaitan
Film Identifier: F.2012-03-0656b
Run Time
0h 2m 5s
0h 2m 5s
Format
16mm
16mm
Color
B&W
B&W
Sound
Optical
Optical
Date Produced
April 1948
April 1948
Abstract
Newsreel footage documents the assassination and funeral of Colombian political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
Description
This film opens with footage of deceased Colombian political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán as he lay in a coffin following his assassination. Widow Amparo Jaramillo Jaramillo and daughter Gloria Gaitán attend the funeral held at Gaitán’s home, where they are surrounded by 20,000 other mourners. Concluding footage shows the Pan-American Conference as it passes an anti-communist resolution.
Distributors
Main Credits
Koza, Frank (is filmmaker)
Actors, Performers and Participants
Meltzer, Newton (is narrator)
Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer (is participant)
Genre
Form
Related Place
Bogota (represents)