Richard Hale Collection Reel 1

Date1927

AbstractIntertitle: “Photographed by WM. H.MC Gill, President Lombard and Company Incorporated Boston Montreal” Footage of a forest fire interspersed with title cards explaining that it was started by careless campers who did not put out their fires and negligent lumber operators who left the woods full of slash, allowing the fire to spread. Firemen survey the blaze. Shots of trees and brush on fire and firemen carrying buckets of water intercut with title cards explaining how to prevent forest fires.