Acapulco, a beach resort town on Mexico's Pacific coast, is set on a large bay backed by high-rises and the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains. Made famous by the jet set in the 1950s and ’60s, it's known for its high-energy nightlife, beaches, and golf.

The screen of the Flores theater projected that night the short entitled The passion for billiards. The astonishment of the large audience was almost hypnotic in the face of such a dazzling prodigy. The figures moving with great speed will suddenly freeze and noisy protests will not be long in coming.
Upstairs, in the projection booth, the inexperienced operator Enrique Flores uses his shirt to put out a small fire. The flames will rise in seconds devouring everything.

Flores is the first and then more than three hundred of the four thousand inhabitants of the port would perish that night. It was 10:10 p.m. on February 14, 1909.

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