(26 Sep 2007) 537828
Funeral of French mime artist who died on Sunday
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Paris, France - 26 September 2007
1. Hearse arrives at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery
2. Close up Marceau's famous hat, seen though window of hearse
3. Mid shot family walking behind hearse
4. Wide shot family
5. Mid shot coffin taken out of hearse and put on trestles
6. Mid men covering coffin with French flag
7. Family member places Marceau's hat with flower on top next to coffin
8. Mid shot coffin (UPSOUND music)
9. Mid shot young boy standing next to hat in front of coffin (UPSOUND music)
10. Mid shot family standing in front of coffin (UPSOUND music)
11. Pan from family members to coffin (UPSOUND music)
12. Mid shot of ceremony, man dressed as an angel in foreground (UPSOUND music)
13. Wide shot cemetery
STORYLINE:
Mime legend Marcel Marceau was buried on Wednesday at the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris in a simple ceremony that was attended by family members only.
The cemetery, located on the east side of the French capital, is where a host of other famous performers and artists are buried, including the composer Frederic Chopin, writer Oscar Wilde, painter Eugene Delacroix and rock star Jim Morrison.
Marceau died on Saturday at the age of 84.
Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, Marceau was arguably the most recognised mime artist in the world.
Through his famed character Bip, he played the entire range of human emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word.
Offstage, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop," he once said.
A French Jew, Marceau escaped deportation to a Nazi death camp during World War II, unlike his father who died in Auschwitz.
Marceau also worked with the French Resistance before taking up the art of mime, which brought him fame around the world.
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