Indian Funeral (1930)

No title. High angle shot of crowds place unidentified. Panning shot. The natives are up early to pick their dog for M, S showing some scrawny looking dogs. Panning shot of people and dogs. They buy him thin fatten him on rice HOT DOG M, S of a young boy with three dogs. If you ask, How can you eat dog They answer, How can you eat pig Dogs are clean M, S of people and dogs. The people of the Southern Celebes are Mahometan Animists, who do not believe in burial underground. Dutch East (Indonesia) L, S of a funeral procession in an ornamental garden. Death, to them, is a happy deliverance and it is celebrated with a band and white Closer shot of the mourners. Various shots of the funeral procession. They push a highly decorated cart which presumably contains the body. They seal the body in an exposed cement tomb which is supposed to be suspended in midair and upheld by four L, S of the tomb. Camera pans, showing the other tombs aro