Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-22 | Page 1 | House Burned for Motion Picture

oo HOUSE BURNED FOR M0TI0OICTURE New Rochello, N Y., April 22. The historic Socard mansion, built 250 j ears ago by a Huguenot family and the scene of many festive meotiugs of aristocratic society in colonial days, Is a mass of blackened ruins today to-day It was sacrificed to furnish a spectaclo for a moving picture film. The site of the houso was recently purchased for a new Episcopal church and the old mansion, offered at auction, auc-tion, was bid In by a moving plcturo company With tho permission of the city authorities, the company sot flro to the house In order to obtain a ae rleB of realistic pictures of the rescuo of a child, a village bucket brigade In action and a mournful family viewing the ruins oo