Selanik Yangını - 1917

Описание: Fire in Thessaloniki
Due to one French soldier lack of attention, on the 18th August 1917 there was a great fire in Thessaloniki, which lasted several days, destroyed a large part of the town and brought out many human victims and enormous material damage. Almost a year before this incident, the Film department of the Serbian army was founded and in this fire the newly acquired laboratory for film development from Italy was destroyed. In return, the cinematographer of the department, Colonel Mika Mihajlović Afrika, recorded all details of this event – soldiers and civilians on the beach, panoramic shot of the town without any indication of the ongoing drama, gradual spreading of the black smoke that covered the town, only to show the real scales of disaster by the shot made from a boat. Cinematography skills of Mika Afrika were revealed mostly in the display of fatalistic serenity with which the citizens of Thessaloniki accepted this catastrophe – monotonous and persistent, albeit hopeless work of the fire-fighters on putting out the fire; slow moving of the citizens on pier, as if going for a stroll, carrying rescued bundles.