I respect your decision to share the darker stories if the period. Too often, it is presented as an endless round of gaiety and glitter--at least until the grim times of 1929 and later.

Being a Montrealer myself I thought I was quite familiar with this dark chapter of my city's history. Yet, I was wrong. You tell the story with such attention to detail and give so much context that your work could rival that of a professionnal historian. Thank you for making this video and for being so exhautive in your research.

There was a similar tragedy in England concerning a theater in the early 1890s-1900s. The children went to see a magician and at the end of the show he and his assistant began throwing gifts/lollies into the audience. When the children in the upper-balcony tried to get down a flight of stairs to receive the gifts/lollies they began to stampede and crush those at the front. Terrible tragedy as most killed were children.

@dawnstorm9768

Жыл бұрын

That might be on a channel called Fascinating Horror.

@Michael_R1957

Жыл бұрын

It is on the Fascinating Horror Channel. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hXedxdVvaKmrfco.html

@JoMarieM

5 ай бұрын

That was the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England in 1882. There was no fire in this instance, but a curved staircase, a door that had been left bolted open just wide enough for one child at a time to pass through (it had been left that way to make ticket checking easier, but someone forgot to open it all the way after the show started), and a bunch of excited kids who didn't want to miss out on the goodies, resulted in a massive tragedy when dozens of children were trampled and suffocated to death. This tragedy has shades of the Victoria Hall disaster. Like this incident, the majority of kids were unaccompanied by an adult.

@su-rv2uq

3 күн бұрын

@@JoMarieM It boggles the mind that children died not because of fire but trampled to death by other kids wanting cheap treats.

Thank you, as an architect I've vaguely heard of this but didn't know any details. In the US the Iroquois Theater fire is much better known from a faulty fire curtain. It's very important to learn from history as painful as it can be. And we still get disasters like the Rhode Island night club fire where Great White used indoor pyrotechnics in a room with flammable materials in 1995 and around 100 lost their lives.

@bold810

Ай бұрын

The Brazilian kids show "Xuxia", too. That was a pyrotechnics started-one, too.

@stormbringer126

5 күн бұрын

​@bold810 I thought that was an electrical short? I didn't see any pyrotechnics on the set, but I only saw a bit of the footage, too

@su-rv2uq

3 күн бұрын

Fire laws are only as good as those who obey them. All the laws in the world won't protect anyone if venue owners and architects and managers and fire marshals don't.

@timmmahhhh

3 күн бұрын

@@su-rv2uq very true as the collapsed condos in Florida proved.

Thank you for posting. I’m Canadian and was not familiar with this horrific tragedy.

That projectionist was either quite brave or truly foolish to run nitrate film during a fire. Nitrate has been banned in this country since 1952 because when lit, it combusts with the fury of a bomb. Its fumes are extremely dangerous, as they will destroy the lungs. As a very young man I ran a copy of "The Gold Rush" on nitrate stock, afraid of it, and standing by the projector every second. Having spent many hours climbing up unlit balcony stairs to an old projection booth, I fully know what horrors a dark balcony could become in a panic.

@smwca123

Жыл бұрын

The projectionist's name was Emile Massicotte, then 27. He wouldn't have had a choice; in 1927 nitrate film was "it". He had at first hoped to avoid panic by keeping the film running as long as he dared. Once that hope was dashed, he stopped the film, looked out of his booth and saw the pile-up. Opening the window, located in his booth, was only the start. He then dragged kids 2 at a time into the booth, then passed them out the window onto the marquee, whence firemen helped them down ladders. He managed about 15 round trips before the rapidly thickening smoke forced him out onto the marquee himself. According to Emile's subsequent testimony at an inquest, the fire never got near the projection booth. It had started in the balcony, apparently from a carelessly-dropped cigarette or match.

@hebneh

7 ай бұрын

Quite early on, building codes began requiring projection booths to be concrete with metal doors and only small round windows for projector beams to reach the screen - all because of the danger of nitrate film fires. If one started, the projectionist(s) could run out and shut the door, confining the fire away from the audience in the auditorium below.

Never heard of this very sad.

That Sirian owner should have been locked up for life. The unaccompanied children rule is irrelevant as any adult should have been able to help those poor children. What a complete and utter disaster for those victims families….2 years and 1 year in jail is a joke. What an indecent human.

It was a very sad but informative video and I thank u for exposing the heartless people who should have been stopped years before this tragedy. Keep up your awesomeness x

Never heard of this tragedy before. Thanks for the info!

Shades of the Iriquois Theater (in Chicago) fire in 1903. 😪

Trampling children during a fire? I realize it's a fire, but still. To push down children?

@valentinius62

Жыл бұрын

When people are in fear of their lives, they panic and almost all have zero regard for others in such dire situations. Like it or not, that's just the way we are at the heart of things.

@flowerfaerie8931

11 күн бұрын

It likely wasn’t intentional trampling. Like most human crushes, it likely started with a few of the children falling, then more tripping over them, and more tripping over them, until they simply couldn’t disentangle themselves, wedged tight in that narrow space.

thank you. it is too easy to imagine that one's own suffering is the worst. may the Lord remember these children in His kingdom ☦

Why am I not surprised that a Man would trample over children than demand his money back from the ticket booth... selfishness of human nature

Never heard of it. There was a famous night club in Boston that went up in flames. I think that was in the '40s tho.

@prudencepineapple9448

Жыл бұрын

Coconut Grove fire.

Awesome channel!

Certainly the Québécois knew of the 1906 Chicago Iroquois Theatre fire with horrific death toll in a 'fire proof' building. Entertainer Eddie Foy the hero onstage urging those who still could calmly to leave.

@prudencepineapple9448

Жыл бұрын

I remember the owner instructing the door exits to be locked to stop non-paying customers entering. The doors also opened inwards which trapped many people. It was this incident that led to the invention of the bar-door lock which could be pushed outwards.

@dawnstorm9768

Жыл бұрын

1903.

You should cover the history of tattoos! The traditional tattoo style was developed around the 1920’s and I’ve recently gotten a Kewpie tattoo in a traditional style. The history behind the Kewpie tattoo and other designs carry on to this day! It’s very intriguing to cover considering so many people get these styles permanently placed on their body a century later.

1927?! Didn’t they learn anything from the infamous Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago of 1903?

@dawnstorm9768

Жыл бұрын

Apoarently not.

That is so sad🥺 rip to the children and much love for the parents who lost their children 💔

Glad you covered this, but I'm also genuinely surprised Well There's Your Problem hasn't talked about this.

Thank you.

This deserves way more views than this has.

I had not heard of this terrible disaster.

I had never heard of this tragedy.

minor correction: Hull is in Quebec, across the Ottawa river from the city of Ottawa, the Canadian capital.

@Zebra_3

Жыл бұрын

there's Funtown (Hull), and there's Bytown.

Never heard of this,but I have heard of the one in Scotland.

That was sad.

No this was new to me .

Another irony about the movie, was that it was directed and produced by the guy that formed the Little Rascals/Our Gang kids. 😬

Learning of historic events -- both the good and bad -- is useful to the viewer.

I had never heard of this event until now.

January 9th, 1927, but the week-day also matters!

Hull is actually in Quebec.

I knew about the Scottish disaster but not this one which is new to me.

Lest We Forget

Great story

Well maby after the fire, the parents won't let there kids out alone. Rip

Largely forgotten..... topics like this aren't taught generally to schoolchildren worldwide. So of course it gets forgotten. There are likely many, many tragedies that are gone from living memory.

Never heard of it in usa

The "good old days" before all those "business crushing" regulations.

@valentinius62

Жыл бұрын

Insurance companies and advances in science and engineering have done waaay more to make people safer than government. In fact, government is THE largest killer in all phases of human civilization. Building codes mean little when bombs or missiles are raining down. 🙄

9:24 1967.

Nope.

First ! Nice vid.

I found a photo of owner Ameen Lawand. I tried to post a link but my comment vanished

The owner was Arab Middle Eastern?😮

Every single one of the adults who's trampled people should have been put in front of a wall.

Just to point out, most of this video is factually incorrect. KZread 🤦‍♂️

Thank you.