BELGIUM: Funeral of composer, Puccini (1924)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Funeral of Signor Giacomo Puccini (Italian Opera Composer) Full Description: BELGIUM, Brussels. Group of men gathered with guns over their shoulders: mounted police on duty: pallbearers lift up coffin and move forward followed by mourners. various shots of funeral procession through streets crowded with people: coffin lifted from carriage and carried up steps of cathedral: mass of people surge forward up steps to cathedral: coffin carried down steps of cathedral following service: huge crowd of people filling square. Background: Funeral of Signor Giacomo Puccini (Italian Opera Composer) FILM ID: VLVAFEXXN75GCO3DG1QGMLOIVUV3 To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé