Originally Posted by
sciencemonster
I had a reel of 35mm film hanging on my wall for years. I unrolled some of it first to confirm it was safety film. As 8 year olds are wont to do, my kid was playing with a lighter one day - next thing we know, we have what looks like a jet engine roaring in the living room. A solid, roaring, tower of flame jetting 8 feet high.
How old was that film? "Safety film" was phased in in the 1950s. I remember as a kid that by then it was real hard to find the "good stuff" that burned.