A FILM TAKES FIRE.
A PLUCKY OPERATOR. FLAMES CAUSE DAMAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Jan. 5. A cinema film caught fire at Forresters’ Theatre at Onehunga yesterday afternoon when 120 children were present. The operator grabbed the film with a sack and carried *t downstairs. He collided with the doorkeeper and dropped the burning mass. The flames spread to the operating room and anterooms, doing considerable damage o*fore the fire was extinguished by the brigade. The children we're removed from the building uninjured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1922, Page 8
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83A FILM TAKES FIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1922, Page 8
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