The title "When the Studio Burned" peeked my interest; I was hoping for some behind-the-scenes footage of the Thanhouser movie studio, or at least a good fire scene and some footage of the burned lot, as this film was based on an actual fire at the Thanhouser lot that took place on 13 January 1913. There's a little bit of all of that, but not nearly enough to be of much interest. There's a brief glimpse of some rubble, a cramped perspective of some supposed studio building, cameos by the Thanhouser stars and a poorly staged fire, which is just smoke. Too much time was spent on photographing cute children.
Furthermore, why the tendency to dramatize and sensationalize real events? Even if this film were somewhat faithful to what really happened, which it probably wasn't, the poorly and overly dramatized depiction here causes one to doubt the picture's fidelity.