Prison Fire
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Prison Fire. DESCRIPTION: At Nashville, Tennessee, convicts had set the prison on fire to demonstrate sympathy for 20 men on a hunger strike during solitary confinement. A guard fell to his death and a woman prisoner committed suicide, all the others escaped the flames. SHOTLIST: Various scenes of the fire started by rioting prisoners. One officer and a women prisoner were killed. The Warden places the damage at $750,000. Key scene. GV prison fire. GV same. MS prisoners. MS same. GV fire. MS firemen. GV fire. MS fire. GV fire (3).
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Riots; Crime; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- United States of America; Tennessee; Nashville
- Footage sources
- United States of America
- Card file number
- 80783
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Length of story (in feet)
- 54
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