Netflix and a Toronto production company are being criticised for using footage of the Lac-Megantic rail disaster in a time-travel sci-fi drama.
The footage is used in an episode of 'Travelers.' During the actors are watching a newscast on a computer reporting on a nuclear attack in London. The show cuts to a shot of London's skyline and what appears to be a CG mushroom cloud but then quickly cuts to a scene on the ground which the in show newscaster describes as a firestorm.
However unlike the initial shot, the firestorm is not CG, it is real footage of the deadly Lac-Megantic train explosion that killed 47 people in 2013.
The images of the disaster appear on screen for just a couple seconds before it eventually cuts to another attack, again featuring a CG mushroom cloud.
Production house Peacock Alley Entertainment said the images from Lac-Megantic were purchased from an archival footage service.
Peacock Alley apologized for using the footage, adding it did not know the original of the video and it would edit the episode to remove the offending images.