Setting Fires for Science

Directed by Donald Brittain
January 1, 1958    20mDocumentary, Short
This film shows the scientific study of fires set to buildings in Aultsville, Ontario, a town evacuated for flooding by the St. Lawrence Seaway. Scientists at Canada's National Research Council devised instruments for recording the progress of a fire in all its stages, to help the country's fire fighters lessen fire's tragic toll.

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  • Geoffrey HogwoodNarrator
  • Donald BrittainDirector
  • Peter JonesProducer
  • Hubert SchuurmanEditor
  • George CrollSound

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