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| Video Discription | (22 Mar 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa paying his respects at funeral for late British science-fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke 2. Rajapaksa speaking to relative of Clarke at funeral 3. Clarke's brother Frederic W. Clarke (seated on left), sister Mary Mclean (seated on right) and other family members at funeral 4. Mourners standing over Clarke's body 5. Clarke's family at funeral 6. People closing casket 7. Pallbearers carrying casket to burial site 8. Funeral procession arriving at cemetery 9. Mourners placing flowers on casket 10. Mid shot of mourners 11. People throwing flowers and handfuls of earth into grave 12. Elderly man throwing earth into grave 13. Wide of funeral STORYLINE Famed science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, was buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where he died early on Wednesday at the age of 90. Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome for years, had suffered breathing problems in recent days, an aide said. Clarke's body was brought to his home in Colombo, where friends and fans can paid their respects before his burial. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa attended the funeral and paid his final respects to the late author. The Ekanayake family, with whom the British author lived in the final decades of his life, cried as his coffin was lowered into the grave at the general cemetery in Colombo. His brother, Fred Clarke, and other family members were among the mourners. Some fans and followers also sprinkled soil into the grave. Music from the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," which Clarke wrote with director Stanley Kubrick, was played at the funeral and at Clarke's home before the ceremony. The visionary author won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future. From 1950, Clarke began a prolific output of both fiction and non-fiction, sometimes publishing three books in a year. A statement from Clarke's office said he had recently reviewed the final manuscript of his latest novel. "The Last Theorem," co-written with Frederik Pohl, will be published later this year, it said. Some of his best-known books are "Childhood's End," 1953; "The City and The Stars," 1956; "The Nine Billion Names of God," 1967; "Rendezvous with Rama," 1973; "Imperial Earth," 1975; and "The Songs of Distant Earth," 1986. Clarke, a British citizen, was officially given a knighthood in 1998, but he delayed accepting it for two years after a London tabloid accused him of being a child molester. The allegation was never proved. He moved to Sri Lanka in 1956. Rajapaksa often lauded Clarke for his passion for his adopted home country. In recent years, Clarke was linked by his computer with friends and fans around the world, spending each morning answering e-mails and browsing the Internet. Clarke married in 1953, and was divorced in 1964. He had no children. He is survived by his brother, Fred, and sister, Mary. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4938c9c9f5dadabbd82720d20ed4934c -R0yE6pyI-4 |
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