Priest With Skulls (1920-1929)

Priest with skulls. Location of events unknown. Bizarre scene. Priest in suit but with ecclesiastical collar. Has a lot of human skulls on table in front of him. He takes a skull; looks at it; sets it back down; then does the same with most of the others; picking them up and glancing at them; as if looking for a particular one. In the middle of the skulls he also picks up a long bone- -thigh bone ? Then CU priest talking and making broad gestures; raising his arm upward; shaking his fists; etc. No indication of whose skulls these are. Spooky; eerie; weird; macabre; death; skeleton; bones. Cut to shot of the priest & another man standing outdoors near a small stone bridge over a stream. FILM ID:2454.2 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,
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