Still from The Silent Alarm in Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 477.
English
300 ft
8mm
Kodachrome
Silent
With music and narrative to be read during projection.
"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.
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.
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