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It's No Picnic

Ephemeral film · 27 min

Details

Running time
27 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Lots of Smoke · ERD. · 2008-09-12

A 1940's film about causing forest fires. Effective for its time. Of course in those years more people smoked. Synchronization was off when I watched this film. Well written and photographed.

★★★★ · Dum de dum dum · Spuzz · 2008-12-21

Somewhat Dragnety episode of a guy with a family getting caught because of some loose ashes which caused a forest fire. I really liked the crime solving aspects of it.. doubtful the fire marshall would have the authority to do all that police work shown, but what do I know? Once the guy is caught, it turns somewhat preachy, the fire marshall comes this close to saying "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires", curiously a lot had to do with cigarettes, which I suppose matches the period of the film.