1959 EKTV filming backlot fire

The  was a fire that happened in the El Kadsreian Avohkah Filming Backlot in Avohkah on June 5, 1959. It first erupted in Studio 2, which contained the archive of the only copies of silent and early sound films that were produced by Flower Film Production and its predecessors between the 1890s and the 1920s; and spreaded into two other studios (1 & 4) and the main office of the El Kadsreian Avohkah Filming Backlot. It was caused by the that stuck the edge of the Studio 2 building’s outer exterior and through the inner walls (since the facility had no lightling rods), igniting stored nirate film in the process.

As the result of the fire, four out of eight buildings of the backlot complex were burned down and hundreds of films were destroyed. Several of the films lost to the fire were later found after dupes used for cinema screenings were located throughout the next decade. After the fire, the backlot was demolished and the new backlot was built in Matsunoki. The former site of the Avohkah backlot is now occupied by Maison El TV Kadsre and the El TV Kadsre Cinemas Avohkah branch.

Two janitors for Studio 2, Koichiro Aomori and Otohiko Yoritaka, were charged with accidental arson and sentenced to 20 years in prison plus 12,000 hours of community service, but were killed when the El Kadsre City Jail burnt down in the midst of civil conflict in the late 1960s.