| NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - THE HINDENBURG CRASHES | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6338 |
| Catalog #: | 253071 | |
| Clip Number: | 253071-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 37/37 | |
| Timecode: | 01:05:35 - 01:06:10 | |
| Location: | Lakehurst, New Jersey | |
| Year Shot: | 1937 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Air Crashes TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Airship (Dirigible), Blimp | |
| Description: | NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - THE HINDENBURG CRASHES Hindenburg airship crashes in America; this is first newsreel report with information but not yet with film of crash. Several shots of the zeppelin 'Hindenburg' in flight. People eating in the dining room. Crew operating the instruments. Several shots of the airship in flight. At the end narrator promises with grim relish that "pictures of this terrible catastrophe are already on their way across the Atlantic" . (He's right, and the amazing crash footage was in Gazette issue 37/40 - -on this same WPA master) | |
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