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8mm color film, home movie showing Arlington National Cemetery

8mm color film, home movie showing the presidential funeral, November 25, 1963, extremely high quality 1 reel; labeled "Arlington Cemetery" (original box) and "Gravesite, Honor Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" (Gary Mack notes)8mm color home movie of a family on vacation in Washington D.C. The home movie starts with a drive through Arlington Cemetery, followed by scenes of the eternal flame inside the white picket fence of President Kennedy's temporary gravesite. A bulldozer is visible in the background down the hill, possibly working on the site of the president's permanent grave. The film concludes with scenes of the Washington Monument and the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The name of the filmmaker is unknown. [STEPHEN - maybe a note about the temporary/permanent gravesites...?]

Object Details
Object title:

8mm color film, home movie showing Arlington National Cemetery

Date:

11/26/1963 - 03/20/1967

Object type:

Films

Medium:

Film

Credit line:

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection

Object number:

2014.037.0004

8mm color film, home movie showing Arlington National Cemetery

8mm color film, home movie showing the presidential funeral, November 25, 1963, extremely high quality 1 reel; labeled "Arlington Cemetery" (original box) and "Gravesite, Honor Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" (Gary Mack notes)8mm color home movie of a family on vacation in Washington D.C. The home movie starts with a drive through Arlington Cemetery, followed by scenes of the eternal flame inside the white picket fence of President Kennedy's temporary gravesite. A bulldozer is visible in the background down the hill, possibly working on the site of the president's permanent grave. The film concludes with scenes of the Washington Monument and the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The name of the filmmaker is unknown. [STEPHEN - maybe a note about the temporary/permanent gravesites...?]

Object Details
Object title:

8mm color film, home movie showing Arlington National Cemetery

Date:

11/26/1963 - 03/20/1967

Terms:

Mourners

Flowers

Graveside

Arlington National Cemetery

Eternal flame

Home movie

Films

Mourning

Object type:

Films

Medium:

Film

Credit line:

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection

Object number:

2014.037.0004