Before shooting a scene in a historically preserved hotel in Landis Valley Pa, Reenactor Algernon Ward Jr. (Algie) put coconut oil on his hair and used a hot air dryer to replicate Robert Smalls famously unruly afro hairstyle. The oil on Algie's hair produced a haze that set off the hotel's smoke alarms which summoned the local fire department that arrived in their fire trucks with horns blaring and the associated excitement all in order to douse Algie's smoking hair-do.