The book you want is the anthology called THIS FILM IS DANGEROUS, edited by Roger Smithers, assembled for the 2000 FIAF symposium on nitrate film. Here you'll find a number of case studies about film fires. (General conclusion: most theater fires were NOT caused by nitrate film catching fire, but by a variety of other factors.) The most infamous early film-related fire was in Paris in 1897, killing over 100 people. It wasn't in a theater per se, but at a Charity Bazaar's cinema pavillion. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu