Possibly the most exciting scene in our reperoire is a fire rescue with the stage-honored accessories of ladders, a burning house, clouds of steam and smoke, and a lovely female, airily clad, leaping into the extended armes of a gallant hero.W.K.L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson, History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kineto-phonograph, 1895, p. 50