1500 Rendered Homeless (1922)
West Hartlepool, Cleveland. Full titles read: 1, 500 RENDERED HOMELESS 80 acres of property wiped out, and damage over a million pounds in appalling M, S of two firemen standing on smouldering logs of wood. L, S of two firemen holding large hospice, they spray stacked up logs with water. Several shots of firemen spraying water onto the fire. L, S of rail track with kink in it, part of the track is smouldering. L, S of the remains of train wagons and carriages and the burnt out shells of houses in the background. L, S of smouldering rail track. M, S of two men in flat caps loading a piano into back of horse drawn cart. L, S s of people on the side of the street, the horse drawn cart moves past, burnt houses can be seen in the background. M, S of small boys playing in the wreckage of the fires. M, S of of man serving a woman holding small child at market stall. Intertitle reads: Like a prairie fire the gale driven sea of flame destroyed everything in its After the fire had
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