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Preparations for Day of the Dead
1. Wide top shot of the Zocalo (Mexico City's main square/plaza)
2. Close up shot of workers setting up offering in the Zocalo
3. Mid shot of bulks of flowers piled up for the offering
4. Mid shot of women and children cutting...
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MEXICO: DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Mexicans are celebrating the Day of the Dead, a time to honour deceased relatives with vigils at cemeteries and homemade altars.
Each year, on the first two days of November, they make altars offering food and drink to the...
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March in protest against Halloween celebrations
Lima, Peru
1. Wide of children marching in anti-Halloween protest with banners and in white cloaks
2. Close of sign held by protestor reading: (Spanish) "This October 31 I will not be part of Halloween, will you?"
3. Medium of children...
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Americans in Mexico to support families of slain prostitutes
1. Wide of march with Mexican flag
2. Women marching
3. American flag
4. Police at US-Mexico border
5. Women on border bridge
6. Close up of picture of murdered woman and word, "Justice"
7. Various of women marching, holding pictures of...
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Celebrations for all-souls day
1. People bringing flowers and offerings to their loved ones in Dolores cemetery.
2. Dolores cemetery
3. Musicians playing while man and kids clean the tomb of a loved one
4. Cross with guitar playing in the back ground
5. Family...
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Celebrations commemorate the dead, festivities for Young Souls Day
Mexico City, Oaxaca
1. Wide of large colourful paper mache skeletons in Mexico City's Zocalo square
2. Mid of pink skeleton
3. Wide of yellow skeleton with church in background
4. Close up of face
5. Wide of skeleton figurines...
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MEXICO: DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Mexicans have been celebrating the Day of the Dead - a time to honour deceased relatives with vigils and homemade altars.
Each year on the first two days of November they make altars offering food, drink and pastries to the...
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Main Day of the Dead celebrations in state of Michoacan
1. Various of Patzcuaro residents decorating graves with flowers and candles
2. Elderly woman looking at grave
3. Wide of cemetery with graves decorated with flowers and candles
4. Close up of woman about to put flowers on grave
4....
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Mexicans, Haitians in traditional celebrations, drunk horse race in Guatemala
AP Television
Pomuch, Campeche, Mexico - 31 October 2012
1. Wide of cemetery
2. Mid of elderly woman removing wooden box containing bones of her parents from tomb
3. Various of wooden boxes containing skulls and bones
4. Close of elderly...
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Mexicans clean the bones of their dead relatives ahead of Day of the Dead celebrations
Mayan communities in Mexico are observing the Day of the Dead holiday with rituals that include cleaning the bones of the dearly departed and bringing live music, food, candles and flowers to their tombs.
Mexicans honour their dead on 1...
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Mexico victims of organised crime movement hold vigil
1. Wide of silhouetted 'Independence Angel' monument in Mexico City at sunset
2. Tilt up from candles on steps of 'Independence Angel' to people
3. Tilt up from candles to woman
4. Close of candle and cross
5. Wide of moon in Mexico...
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Traditional voodoo celebration on Day of the Dead
1. Medium wide shot of Leoganne villagers carrying musical instruments and arriving for festival
2. Close up of old man being lead to gathering by the hand
3. Mid shot of villagers arriving to take part in voodoo ceremony
4. Wide shot...
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PERU: LIMA: FESTIVAL DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATED
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Peruvians have been celebrating the Day of the Dead, a holiday which is a mixture of Christian and indigenous customs.
Thousands of people make offerings to their dead relatives, some even camping out at the graveyards...
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Thousands of people mark The Day of the Dead holiday by visiting graves of loved ones
Thousands of people marked The Day of the Dead holiday in Peru's capital with celebrations at the tombs of their loved ones laid to rest at the Virgen de Lourdes cemetery.
The Day of the Dead holiday honours the deceased.
In Lima,...
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KOSOVO: BOMBING OF SERB BUS WRAP
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Lighting candles and weeping, hundreds of Kosovo Serbs gathered in a cemetery to mourn
the victims of a bus bombing that killed seven people and injured 43 others.
Mourners for the bomb victims mingled with other Serbs...
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Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead festival
1. People carrying flowers and other offerings into cemetery
2. Woman pushing a wheelbarrow of flowers, family following
3. Boy carrying a watering bucket through cemetery
4. Man watering flowers on a grave and then handing the bucket...
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Final day of observances for festival honouring the dead
1. Mid of Venancio Tuz Chi, the administrator for the cemetery of Pomuch in Campeche putting blanket over box
2. Various of Chi cleaning skulls and human bones and putting them into a box
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Venancio Tuz Chi,...
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Locals visit graves of relatives for All Saints Day
1. Wide of cemetery on hillside
2. Relatives arriving carrying flowers
3. Various of families gathered around the graves
4. Mid of family around grave decorated with pastries, fruits and flowers
5. Various of relatives decorating...
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A look at 'Calacas' - a show inspired by the Day of the Dead
Mexico's Day of the Dead is celebrated in "Calacas" - a performance piece designed by French horse trainer and visual artist, Bartabas.
The show takes place in the Gran Carpa Santa Fe in Mexico City until 23 March 2014, before heading to...
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MEXICO: PROSTITUTES HONOURED IN DAY OF THE DEAD CEREMONIES
Spanish/Nat
Prostitutes in Mexico City have honoured colleagues who died of AIDS related illnesses as part of the annual "Day of the Dead" celebrations.
Every year Mexicans hold vigils at local cemeteries and homemade altars to pay...
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Thousands of people marked The Day of the Dead holiday in Peru's capital with celebrations at the tombs of their loved ones laid to rest at the Virgen de Lourdes cemetery.
Thousands of people marked The Day of the Dead holiday in Peru's capital with celebrations at the tombs of their loved ones laid to rest at the Virgen de Lourdes cemetery.
The Day of the Dead holiday honours the deceased.
In Lima,...
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Day of the Dead celebrations across the region
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 1 November 2011
1. Wide of man representing Baron Samedi, a spirit of the dead, at cemetery
2. Mid of man representing Baron Samedi holding human bone and drinking rum
3. Mid of man putting white powder on man...
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Day of the Dead celebrations across the region
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 1 November 2011
1. Wide of man representing Baron Samedi, a spirit of the dead, at cemetery
2. Mid of man representing Baron Samedi holding human bone and drinking rum
3. Mid of man putting white powder on man...
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Celebrations and festivities on All Souls' Day
1. Tilt down from cemetery altar decorated with flowers to people walking into cemetery
2. People crossing street carrying flowers
3. People walking through entrance
4. People carrying flowers walking past flower stalls
5. Florists...