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FUNERAL FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IN SHAPE OF SAXOPHONE

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Reel Summary JANUARY 16, 1971 DUPLICATE OF 2000.78.4.35 WHICH HAS SOUND. APPROXIMATELY 400 FEET OF FILM COMPILED ONTO A 7 INCH REEL. RUN TIME: 11:28 CAPTAIN JOHN HANDY (1900 - JANUARY 12, 1971) WAS BORN IN PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI AND DIED IN NEW ORLEANS. HE PLAYED ALTO SAXOPHONE AND CLARINET AND PERFORMED OFTEN AT PRESERVATION HALL. HE WAS BURIED IN LIVE OAK CEMETERY IN PASS CHRISTIAN. FOOTAGE INCLUDES MOST ASPECTS OF A JAZZ FUNERAL. THE OLYMPIA BRASS BAND AND OTHERS, ARE SEEN RIDING IN A BUS WHICH THEN CUTS TO A PROCESSION WHERE FLOWERS AND A CASKET ARE BEING BROUGHT OUT OF A CHURCH. THE GROUP IS SEEN GOING INTO A CEMETERY. FATS HOUSTON IS IDENTIFIED AS THE GRAND MARSHALL AND OTHER BAND MEMBERS INCLUDE, ANDERSON MINOR, BOOKER T. GLASS, EMANUEL PAUL, ALAN JAFFE, WILLIE HUMPHREY, PAUL CRAWFORD, HOMER EUGENE AND EMANUAL SAYLES. THE MOOD IS VERY SOMBRE UNTIL THE END WHEN THE SECOND LINE PARADE BEGINS. PHOTOGRAPHER AND JAZZ ENTHUSIAST, JOHN BERNARD IS SEEN NEAR THE END OF THE FILM.
Description FUNERAL FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IN SHAPE OF SAXOPHONE
Color color
Year 1971
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