Chicago's Largest Chimney Falls.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accidents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 minute, 3 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1914.

Summary:

Main title. " Wreckers shore up the base of the 265 foot chimney with wood and set fire to it, bringing down 5,000 tons of brick crashing to earth" (8). Sign for wrecking contractors S. Krug over arch at base of chimney. Piles of wood are set alight; people leave the scene (21). LS chimney as it crumbles in on itself; clouds of debris (47). ELS of the site; spectators walking over the demolition site.

Notes:

Issue number: 138-1.

Series: Topical Budget.

Special distribution: Unknown.

With intertitles.