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Stillman Fires Collection: Glimpses Of Greater Alarms

Ephemeral film · 11 min

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11 minutes
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Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · Pathe in flames · Spuzz · 2004-09-25

This is another collection of fires, and is somewhat boring for the first half, where we basically see nothing but hoses, water and smoke. The second half picks up with a fire at a Pathe Film Lab, where I'm sure they had plenty of nitrate film stored, and the building goes up in flames in a hurry. Somewhat sad to see though, since we're watching a lab which probably had dozens, maybe hundreds of films stored go up in flames. Right after that, is an odd site, what appears to be a normal building front and side, but the CORNERS are emitting smoke! Somewhat hard to describe, it's really a…