Hospitals Don't Burn Down (1978)

A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major hospital.

Date of release
1978-06-20
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
24m
Genres
Drama
Director
Brian Trenchard-Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

Hospitals Don't Burn Down! is a 1978 pseudo-documentary short film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith about a fire at a hospital.

Production

The movie was widely screened around the world and won a number of prizes. Trenchard-Smith says it is one of the movies of which he is most proud:

[It] won all sorts of industrial safety awards all over the world, and was Australia's highest-selling industrial film for 25 years, used all over the world. We staged a fire, cutting a multi-story hospital in half, bursting from the laundry chute out onto one floor. And the film was designed to have a whole series of lessons to be learned in a lecture afterwards. There were alarming incidents of smoking-related fires in their hospitals.

6 months of research preceded the filming. 77 actors were used alongside real fire brigades and ambulances. The production (nicknamed The Towering Infirmary by the crew) was filmed at Concord Repatriation Hospital, Bethesda House, Marrickville and Royal Newcastle Hospital.

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