Episode of the television series “You Are There” featuring a fake news report on the Chicago Fire of 1871. Walter Cronkite acts as the news anchor ...
Unedited footage capturing the aftermath of a fire at the American Distillery in Pekin, IL on August 3-4, 1954.
Unedited news footage of a massive fire blazing at the Standard Oil refinery at Whiting, Indiana in late August 1955.
A crowd of onlookers watch the Chicago fire department attempt to extinguish a fire in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on April 14, 1957.
Footage of Chicago firefighters battling a massive fire at a grain elevator on the Calumet River.
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a massive fire at Allgauer's Fireside Restaurant in Lincolnwood, IL at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Touhy...
Black and white footage of the inquest into the fire that took place at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago on December 1, 1958. 92 pupils and...
Silent news outtakes capturing a deadly fire at San Francisco's Thomas Hotel on January 6, 1961. Firefighters are seen battling the blaze and recov...
This film is of an unidentified California fire, circa 1960.
The aftermath of an October 18, 1961 explosion at the Helene Curtis Industries Plant at 4401 North Ave. Chicago,...
Silent news outtakes show the aftermath of a deadly apartment building fire on E. 70th Street in Chicago on February 14, 1962.
This film documents a fire at the Standard Oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana between January 29-30, 1957.<...
Footage of illustrations at the Chicago Historical Society that document the Great Chicago Fire in October 1871.
News footage of a building fire at the intersection of S. Fairfield Ave and W. Cermak Rd. (near "22nd and California," as noted by the filmmaker's ...
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