Stan Laurel - Get 'Em young (1926)

[@yves-noel-mariegonnet1043]

A very big thank you for making these old films available to us! We watch them and re-watch them with Pleasure!

[@smwca123]

This movie was playing at the Laurier Palace theater in Montreal, Canada on January 9, 1927, when a fire broke out. In the ensuing panic, 78 children were killed; most were trampled or suffocated. Even that tragic toll that could have gone well over 100 but for the heroism of Emile Massicotte, the projectionist. He made about 15 round trips dragging 2 children at a time from the pile-up spot into the projection booth, then passed them out a window onto the marquee. From there, firemen helped the children down ladders to the street, later doing the same with Massicotte after the thickening smoke forced him out onto the marquee himself. Despite his utter exhaustion, Massicotte offered more help, but there was little he could do. He said later that he saw only smoke, and that the fire never reached the projection booth. That was in the heyday of highly flammable cellulose nitrate film, though that was not the cause of the fire (a carelessly discarded cigarette or match was). Besides Massicotte, and probably unknown to him at the time, usher Paul Champagne directed an orderly evacuation at a balcony stairwell that was not blocked.

[@jaykaiser1754]

The word wretched is a word to describe this film

[@Helpey]

Ok... That was... huh... funny ? I guess ?