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1937 Fox vault fire

Index 1937 Fox vault fire

On July 9, 1937, a major fire broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States. [1]

65 relations: Anthony Slide, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Autocatalysis, Bazar de la Charité, Buster Keaton, Cellulose acetate film, Consolidated Film Industries, D. W. Griffith, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Educational Pictures, Evelyn Nesbit, Famous Players Film Company, Famous Players-Lasky, Film can, Film preservation, Film stock, Film studio, Fire alarm call box, Fire hose, Fire safety, Fire sprinkler system, Fox Film, George Walsh, Hawthorne, New Jersey, Heat wave, Hydrolysis, Kansas City, Missouri, List of incomplete or partially lost films, List of lost films, List of rediscovered films, Little Ferry, New Jersey, Lost film, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Museum of Modern Art, Negative (photography), Nitrocellulose, Nitrogen oxide, Pathé Exchange, Philadelphia, Photographic processing, Polymer degradation, Reinforced concrete, Release print, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, River Edge, New Jersey, Silent film, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Sol Lesser, South Hackensack, New Jersey, Sponsored film, ..., Spontaneous combustion, The Birth of a Baby, Theda Bara, Thermal decomposition, Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, Tom Mix, United States, Valeska Suratt, Ventilation (architecture), Way Down East, West Orange, New Jersey, William Farnum, 1965 MGM vault fire, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (15 more) »

Anthony Slide

Anthony Slide (born 7 November 1944 in Birmingham, England) is a writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment.

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Auguste and Louis Lumière

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas; 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean; 5 October 1864 – 7 June 1948), were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

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Autocatalysis

A single chemical reaction is said to be autocatalytic if one of the reaction products is also a catalyst for the same or a coupled reaction.

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Bazar de la Charité

The Bazar de la Charité was an annual charity event organized by the French Catholic aristocracy in Paris from 1885 onwards.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Cellulose acetate film

Cellulose acetate film, or safety film, is used in photography as a base material for photographic emulsions.

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Consolidated Film Industries

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern cinematic techniques.

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Deluxe Entertainment Services Group

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., often referred to as Deluxe, creates, transforms, localizes, and distributes content.

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Educational Pictures

Educational Pictures (or Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. or Educational Films Corporation of America) was an American film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882–1962).

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Evelyn Nesbit

Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 – January 17, 1967), known professionally as Evelyn Nesbit, was an American chorus girl, an artists' model, and an actress.

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Famous Players Film Company

The Famous Players Film Company or Celebrated Players was a film company founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor in partnership with the Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios.

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Famous Players-Lasky

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company created on July 19, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.

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Film can

A film can is the light-tight container used to enclose film stock.

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Film preservation

Film preservation, or film restoration, describes a series of ongoing efforts among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain.

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Film stock

Film stock is an analog medium that is used for recording motion pictures or animation.

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Film studio

title.

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Fire alarm call box

A fire alarm box, fire alarm call box, or fire alarm pull box is a device used for notifying a fire department of a fire.

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Fire hose

A fire hose (or firehose) is a high-pressure hose that carries water or other fire retardant (such as foam) to a fire to extinguish it.

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Fire safety

Fire safety is the set of practices intended to reduce the destruction caused by fire.

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Fire sprinkler system

A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method, consisting of a water supply system, providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, onto which fire sprinklers are connected.

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Fox Film

The Fox Film Corporation was an American company that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox on 1 February 1915.

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George Walsh

George Walsh (March 16, 1889 – June 13, 1981) was an American personality in the early decades of the 20th Century.

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Hawthorne, New Jersey

Hawthorne is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Heat wave

A heat wave is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries.

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Hydrolysis

Hydrolysis is a term used for both an electro-chemical process and a biological one.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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List of incomplete or partially lost films

The following is a list of notable films that are incomplete or partially lost.

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List of lost films

For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived.

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List of rediscovered films

This is a list of rediscovered films that, once thought lost, have since been discovered, in whole or in part.

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Little Ferry, New Jersey

Little Ferry is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Lost film

A lost film is a feature or short film that is no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library of Congress.

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Lubin Manufacturing Company

The Lubin Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture production company that produced silent films from 1896 to 1916.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Negative (photography)

In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.

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Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, and flash string) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent.

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Nitrogen oxide

Nitrogen oxide may refer to a binary compound of oxygen and nitrogen, or a mixture of such compounds.

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Pathé Exchange

Pathé Exchange was an independent American film production and distribution company from 1921 through 1927.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Photographic processing

Photographic processing or development is the chemical means by which photographic film or paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image.

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Polymer degradation

Polymer degradation is a change in the properties—tensile strength, color, shape, etc.—of a polymer or polymer-based product under the influence of one or more environmental factors such as heat, light or chemicals such as acids, alkalis and some salts.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Release print

A release print is a copy of a film that is provided to a movie theater for exhibition.

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Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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River Edge, New Jersey

River Edge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (rarely), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association, of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the media and entertainment industry.

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Sol Lesser

Sol Lesser (February 17, 1890 – September 19, 1980) was an American film producer.

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South Hackensack, New Jersey

South Hackensack is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Sponsored film

Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is a film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the films were designed to serve a specific pragmatic purpose for a limited time.

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Spontaneous combustion

Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition.

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The Birth of a Baby

The Birth of a Baby is a 1938 American educational film about childbearing.

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.

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Thermal decomposition

Thermal decomposition, or thermolysis, is a chemical decomposition caused by heat.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Thomas Edison National Historical Park preserves Thomas Edison's laboratory and residence, Glenmont, in Llewellyn Park in West Orange in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Tom Mix

Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies between 1909 and 1935.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valeska Suratt

Valeska Suratt (June 28, 1882 – July 2, 1962) was an American stage and silent film actress.

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Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional introduction of ambient air into a space and is mainly used to control indoor air quality by diluting and displacing indoor pollutants; it can also be used for purposes of thermal comfort or dehumidification.

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Way Down East

Way Down East is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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West Orange, New Jersey

West Orange is a suburban township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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William Farnum

William Farnum (July 4, 1876 – June 5, 1953) was an American stage and film actor.

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1965 MGM vault fire

The 1965 MGM vault fire was a fire that erupted in Vault 7, a storage facility, at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio (MGM) backlot in Culver City, California in 1965.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

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