Crimes of Carelessness

★★★★ · Firestarting: A Primer · Christine Hennig · 2005-04-06

This early fire prevention film has campy strident narration, lots of scenes of people being stupid, and lots of footage of flames for the pyros out there to enjoy. The highlight is a scene of a little boy playing with matches with a truly diabolical look on his face, surely a pyro in the making. Add this to scenes of a driver throwing a cigarette butt out the window and starting a major forest fire, a housewife leaving the iron sitting on the clothing while she goes to answer the phone, a guy at work smoking in front of a No Smoking sign until the boss comes along, when he throws it on a…

★★★★ · We The People · Dodsworth the Cat · 2023-03-14

Screaming sirens, strident script, snarling narration, urgent music. It's all here. "We the people" (as the narrator says over and over) didn't lose homes to fire. "We" lost "DESPERATELY NEEDED homes." "We" "FEED THE WORLD!" The film is full of enactments of people doing stupid things that start fires; you've seen them over and over before. This time, each one is accompanied by the same plume of smoke, and when it clears, there's stock footage of charred ruins. It's over-the-top, so that makes it worth viewing.

★★★★ · Don't let theis happen to you!! · Bill T. · 2005-05-12

Another fire prevention film, covering many things I've seen before (errant cigarrettes) more foolish housewives, plenty of fire engines, and plenty of chastising narration. The best bits of course, are all at the beginning, when we see the people who start these fires, and the stock footage results (The lady with the iron and the woman cleaning with gas must live in the same house). The REALLY cool thing is the beginning, where the sound effect of a fire engine morphs into a woman's scream! Neat! And stay tuned after the movie for the commercial about 'The Fifth Horseman'! Reccomended!

★★★★ · Don't let this happen to you!! · Spuzz · 2016-07-18

Another fire prevention film, covering many things I've seen before (errant cigarrettes) more foolish housewives, plenty of fire engines, and plenty of chastising narration. The best bits of course, are all at the beginning, when we see the people who start these fires, and the stock footage results (The lady with the iron and the woman cleaning with gas must live in the same house). The REALLY cool thing is the beginning, where the sound effect of a fire engine morphs into a woman's scream! Neat! And stay tuned after the movie for the commercial about 'The Fifth Horseman'! Reccomended!