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Setting Fires for Science

1958 19 min
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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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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.
  • director
    Donald Brittain
  • script
    Donald Brittain
  • producer
    Peter Jones
  • camera
    Reginald Morris
  • sound
    George Croll
  • editing
    Hubert Schuurman
  • sound editing
    Karl Duplessis
    Malca Gillson
  • narrator
    Geoffrey Hogwood

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