A 1917 silent film about a deadly factory fire was lost for over a century. It just resurfaced.
For more than 100 years, a silent film about a fictional industrial fire in Chicago remained elusive to the safety science organization that commissioned the short motion picture. But in 2025, it resurfaced at the University of Maryland Libraries, uncovered by the preservation team.
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