Ceylon: Celebrating Buddha’s Birthday (1964)

Unissued / Unused material - Ceylon / Sri Lanka. VS Crowds gather outside the Kelaniya Temple and then start to enter to worship the Buddha’s birthday. MS Burning incense to Buddha. VS Devotees worshipping and they present flowers. VS At night and the worshippers cleverly erect tableaux with flashing bulbs etc. they are called Pandals and tell of various episodes in the life of Buddha. (.) Old record suggests material dates from around 26/05/1964. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to th