Film Record: Silent Alarm, The

Still from The Silent Alarm in Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 477.

Date produced: 1944

Filmmaker(s):

Ernest H. Kremer

Languages:

English

Length:

300 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music and narrative to be read during projection.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1944 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Ernest Kremer has produced, in The Silent Alarm, a film dealing with the first aid duties of the volunteer fire department of East Hempstead, N. Y. — hence, the "silent" alarm. The picture opens slowly, showing first aid training ifor newly inducted members of the department, but it builds to a remarkable climax in a sequence of the firemen using an inhalator on a badly suffering asthma victim. This closing sequence was filmed during an asthma attack from which the department, working heroically throughout the night, actually saved a man's life." Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 496.

Resources:

The film is mentioned in "The Clinic" (Movie Makers, Feb. 1945, 60), which reveals how the filmmaker created a telephone sound effect for the film.

Locations:

• East Hempstead, New York (Filming)

Subjects:

• Emergencies

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the New York City 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1945 and 1951: New York City, N.Y.

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