Film fire

[Aaron Gerow]

In an incident that reminds us of the necessity of proper preservation of 
old films, the papers reported that some old prewar documentaries on 16mm 
nitrate film stock housed in a warehouse in Arakawa-ku in Tokyo 
spontaneously combusted on the 28th because of the heat.  It was not 
reported what films were lost, but most were apparently from around 1940. 
 Also no report on who owned these films.  The Fire Department again 
called on those holding films to properly store them.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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