I’m trying to figure out the layout of that church. At 30 seconds, you see a woman at a wooden podium. The wall to HER left is all white. Next to the white portion of the wall is a doorway, with an exit sign over it. The casket is to the woman’s right, a step down from where she’s standing. Next to the casket is a very tall candle stand with a white candle in it. There are two lighted Christmas trees behind her.
At 34 seconds, the scene shifts to a priest giving a eulogy. He’s at a white-cloth-covered podium. To HIS left is a wall covered with slatted wood paneling. Next to his podium are two tall candle holders with white candles. No flowers or Christmas trees visible.
At 46 seconds, Yamamoto may be in the front row. I don’t recognize anyone else, including Abercrombie.
At 52 seconds, Abercrombie is speaking from the same podium from which the woman spoke—wooden podium with a white wall to his left and two lighted Christmas trees behind.
At 1:04, the scene switches back to the priest, with the wooden wall to his left and no decorations seen.
At 1:37, we see people in pews, women facing them as if going along the row, greeting them. Behind is ONE lighted Christmas tree. To the left is that same wooden wall you see when the priest speaks, but I don’t see his podium or the candles. Nor do I see Abercrombie’s podium. I see poinsettias in the background, but no funereal floral sprays, nor a casket (although it could be there, just out of view).
At 1:39, the scene is from the rear of the church. There’s a big marble-like structure in the middle of the aisle, halfway down. It looks like the type of thing upon which you would place a casket, but it appears as if the casket (when it’s shown) was up in front, near the altar. In this scene, people are up near the altar, but I can’t see a casket or funeral floral displays. Just the Christmas decor—trees and poinsettias. The people may be taking Communion. On each side is one tall Christmas tree with two smaller ones next to it. No wooden wall visible.
At 1:52, we see the crying women filing past the casket. Behind them, are seen many funeral floral arrangements and a door with an exit signs. One is on a high stand, so taller than the women and should have been visible in other shots. (Wouldn’t you have expected the reporters to film the notable people filing by, instead of unidentified women?)
At 1:57 you see the hands of the woman in the casket and even a little of her hair. I didn’t see anybody in the church wearing that bright pink, tie-dyed-looking dress.
At 2:03 there’s a view showing the casket, the podium from which Abercrombie spoke, with the white wall to the side and two Christmas trees behind the podium. The floral sprays look different and aren’t where they were when the women filed past the casket, even though others are filing past this casket.
I didn’t include it in my blog post because I didn’t want to get too complicated, but the video of the family rushing up to a casket to bid their farewells does not seem like it can be the same funeral, although the layout of the windows and placement of a wreath on the wall on the right side of the church (as seen there) matches the layout of windows and wreath on the left side, as seen in the photo of the family huddled near the casket by the yellow flowers and pulpit. So I think this is in the same church. But here’s a comparison of some discrepancies:
The image showing the family rushing forward to “say aloha”, compared to the image on the Diocese website, has:
1. white flowers looped around the left-most corner of the casket lid (v. white flowers in middle, green swag on each side
2. Easel to the right of the casket with 2 pages of writing posted side by side (v. no easel or body-in-casket image with one page)
3. No red chairs, and seemingly no ROOM for red chairs (v 2 large red chairs)
4. Candle placed substantially to the left of the casket (v candle placed very close to casket)
5. Candle’s drip pan below the height of the casket lid. (v. candle’s drip pan above height of casket lid)
6. Podium on the right side, by the 2 Christmas trees (v no podium showing anywhere on the right side of the chancel.
The wooden wall has also confused me. But I think we’re probably dealing with more than one funeral setting in the same church. KITV inserted alien footage of the casket with the body inside, and they could well have inserted alien footage of the “family” rushing forward as well. There’s a heavy lady with a bun in her hair and a loose floral dress who is in the image of the family rushing forward but is also in the line to greet the family up by the red chairs in another image. Seems like she’s not sure whether she is family or not, maybe... Or it’s from 2 different funerals - one having the red chairs set up and the other without them.
I’m about to be offline for a while, so I can’t get too far into this discussion at the moment. However, I looked on youtube and found a tour of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, HI. It’s the same one. You’ll need to fast forward to 1.06 to start viewing the sanctuary. You get quite a few angles. What’s confusing, I think, is that this church looks to have at least six if not eight sides, and we don’t know the camera angles being used at the funeral. It can make for disorientation, especially since none of us has ever been there.
Another excellent interior shot comes at the 3.57 mark, and don’t miss 4.56; it’s an external view. One look at the outside layout, and you may get a sense of why we’re having difficulty quantifying the interior.
Hope this helps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d4L69Rg-P0