Armistice Day ceremony on 90th anniversary of end of WW1

Описание: (11 Nov 2008)
1. Wide of crowds gathered for ceremony
2. Tilt-up of heavily decorated soldier carrying various standards
3. Various of members of Sikh community arriving to lay wreath
4. Close up of woman with wreath on lap
5. Wide of crowds
6. Schoolboys arriving at ceremony with wreath
7. Members of various regional fire services in full ceremonial dress
8. Close up of a veteran
9. School children arriving through crowds
10. Mid of attendees
11. Mid of woman with wreath
12. Marching band arriving
13. Close up of woman
14. Various military groups marching
16. Various of Cardinal Godfried Danneels arriving
17. Wide of attendees
18. Close up of attendee
19. Various attendees
20. Wide of ceremony
21. Mid of attendees
22. Wide of military groups standing to attention
23. Wide of scene with Danneels standing with head bowed
24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benoit Mottrie, Chairman of the last post association:
"This year marks the 90th anniversary of the ending of the Great War. During those dark and terrible years more than two hundred thousand soldiers of the then British empire lost their lives, fighting for a few square miles of shell-torn-mud in the Ypres salient. It is only right and proper that sacrifice on this scale should be remembered and it was for this reason that the Last Post ceremony was first inaugurated in 1928 as a daily tribute from the people of Ypres and of Belgium in honour of the memory of those who fought and died for our freedom."
25. Veteran saluting
26. Push in on veteran saluting
27. Close up of message on wreath; pull out
28. Wide of wreaths and flowers
STORYLINE:
Hundreds gathered in Ypres in Belgium on Tuesday to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Schoolchildren, veterans and members of the public came to lay wreaths at the Menin Gate, a memorial built to honour some 55-thousand missing British and Commonwealth soldiers.
Ypres witnessed some of the worst fighting during the First World War that left hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and the city in ruins.
Every night, for the past eighty years, at exactly 1900GMT, the Last Post has been played at Menin Gate.
The only exception was the Second World War period when the tradition was prohibited by the occupying German troops.

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