The Cleveland Clinic X-Ray Incident
Added 2021-08-03 10:15:59 +0000 UTCIn this video, I talk about the x-ray film used in hospitals in the early 1900s. For quite some time, the same volatile film was used for movie production, with some disastrous results. For example, a particularly hot summer was enough to cause a film archive in New Jersey to go up in smoke, destroying every film made by Fox before the year 1937.
Almost every major studio suffered a similar fire at some point. And when it came to showing films, there were lots of issues too. Film was so dangerous that the projector had to be isolated from the auditorium - one of the reasons why we developed projection booths rather than having the projector in the same room as the audience.
It really is fascinating how so many industries worked with something so dangerous for so long... because there wasn't any other option. Atlas Obscura has a brilliant article all about it, which I really recommed.
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Thank you for watching. And sorry about your loss... but glad, at least, that he could be cared for by some of the best!
Fascinating Horror
2021-08-06 11:43:09 +0000 UTC
