Fire In Tall Building (1917)

Fire in tall building. Disasters. Fire in ’skyscraper’ (1917). Shot panning to top of tall brick building; smoke coming from behind. Another shot panning up the building where the fire is; with the streams of water from the fire hoses shooting into windows; smoke rolling out and covering most of screen. Then L/S looking over back of the burning building; with jets of water aimed at long low warehouse-type building. Scary; dangerous; exciting; etc. etc. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end