Maybe the best part of a century before BACKDRAFT but still a remarkable "moving picture" of the period. I don't know whether or not the original nitrate film still exits but I saw this particular "ultra short" during a local film festival of "early american film" some years back. The natural lighting that morning was used to great effect and I remember wondering what thoughts might have been going through the firemen's minds as they sped away that day.
Review of The Morning Alarm
