Film Record: New Orleans Funeral

Date produced: 1962

Filmmaker(s):

Jules L. Cahn

Languages:

English

Length:

869 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Optical

Awards/Recognition:

PSA Ten Best 1962 - Honorable Mention

Description:

"Those who have not attended a New Orleans funeral may look forward to an experience. These are colored funerals for lodge members and important persons. Lodge brothers and sisters dress in their fraternal regalia. Men in uniform, braid, sashes, aprons, plumed hats, swords, long coats. Women in white uniforms or long skirts and complimentary headgear. The choice of dress befits the occasion. The Eureka Brass band Furnishes the music-fast marches to the funeral home, dirges to the cemetery, hymns at the graveside. Leaving the grave, jazz music is played as it is propitious to celebrate, a good time for dancing. Many impromptu dances set up along the return route. to hear the band music is enough to get one to attend a New Orleans funeral. The beat is almost hypnotic" PSA Journal, Oct. 1962, 36.

Locations:

• New Orleans, Louisiana (Filming)

Subjects:

• African Americans
• Death
•      Geography
•      United States

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

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