The rode male

Den röde hanen or ‘The Red Rooster’ is an old term for a fire, and this information film was made by Tullberg on behalf of the Swedish Fire Protection Association. According to the film, in the 1920s there were about 3,500 fires a year in Sweden, around 900 of them in Stockholm. As the film’s intertitles explain, the red tongues of fire are not just an interesting spectacle that is exciting to rea…