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The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
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Fox Film
American film production company (1915–1935)
The Fox Film Corporation was an American independent company that produced motion pictures and was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. It was the corporate successor to his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attraction Company.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1937 Fox vault fire
Fire at film storage facility in New Jersey
A major fire occurred in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industry laboratories, studios and vaults, although the precise causes were…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)