A Fire Destroyed a Large Collection of Film Records From the Cinemateca Brasileira

Brazilian cinema suffered irreplaceable losses on Thursday night, as a fire broke out at a storage facility at the Cinemateca Brasileira. The warehouse, which is located in the Vila Leopoldina district of São Paulo, stored over a million documents from state-owned Embrafilme, along with 250,000 Brazilian films from years past. According to Brazilian Fire Chief, Karina Paula Moreira, "the fire started in one of the historical film collection rooms on the first floor, which is divided into three ...