When the Fire-Bells Rang

📅 1912 ⏱️ 11 min 🎭 Comedy, Short

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Mack Sennett

✍️ Writers

Morris H. Black

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Biograph Company

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Comedy Short

📖 Overview

They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the “Opry House.” A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twenty “supers” to play “Roman soldiers.” “Props” engages the members of the fire company, who are rehearsed and dressed in Roman costumes. Everything goes fine until the fire-bells ring out an alarm, then, well…