A short little tale from Red Felbinger’s chronicles of his colleagues about a cold and grey Chicago month eight decades ago.

In the quiet month of February around Chicago. The million dollar nite blaze of the grain elevator…in twenty below zero and the following Knights of the Celluloid freezing faces, nipping fingers, gettin frost-bitten feet; Tony Caputo, Martin Barnett, Sid Stearn, Jack Darrock, Maurice Hare, Virgil Bowers — all sufferin so’s a couple ten million could sit in theaters and thrill to a minute and half of fire scenes…shot in twenty below…camera cranks freezin so tight the boys had to thaw out the boxes over improvised fires to git the next scene. I’m holdin out on one name of the above heroes…Jack Barnett…reason bein Jack showed up in a fur lined flyin suit and only froze his face…so I cant make a hero out of him with the rest mentioned above.

All I kin say is Jack Barnett wuz mighty cold…remember he wuz dressed warmer than them other crankin’ hombres.