Official trailer - The Rhythm Club Fire documentary

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Directed by Bryan Burch : In April of 1940 , a dance was to take place at a building called The Rhythm Night Club in Natchez Mississippi . A famous band leader on his way back to Chicago was going to play a one night engagement at the Rhythm Club .
In order to keep the non-paying public from getting a free show , the manager of the club boarded up the windows and doors leaving only the front door open . One way in and one way out . The club was decorated with spanish moss hung from the chicken wire in the rafters . The moss had been sprayed with a petroleum based insecticide called Flit in order to kill the bugs that lived in the moss .
A fire broke out , 209 people were killed . It is still listed as the 2nd deadliest nightclub fire in United States history .

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Film & Animation

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• Rhythm Club Fire
• night
• natchez
• mississippi
• documentary

[SOUTHERNBOY386]

hey i saw u on "C list" and follwed ur link, im into film as well, jus wanted to tell ya nice work!

[RhythmClubFire]

@SOUTHERNBOY386 - Thank you very much .... its been a long road but sooo well worth it . An experience I will never forget .

[NNYSPAZ]

Nice ....Wish more of this Great Man and Band was out. R.I.P. ALL WHO were LOST......

[preservationhall01]

The Birmingham Bertha-Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians vid response has a bit of info on the Rhythm Club fire at the end. Hope you enjoy!