Still Waters Posted May 11, 2014 #1 Share Posted May 11, 2014 A rarely seen video showing a different angle of the Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey has been released to the public for the first time in 77 years. The video, which was found decades ago by the Navy Lakehurst and Ocean County Historical Societies, was obtained exclusively by NBC10.com on Friday. The new film footage shows the 803-foot-long German airship erupt into flames from the side, rather than the nearly head-on view widely seen in newsreels. http://www.nbcphilad...FlowTwt_PHBrand http://www.dailymail...killing-36.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted May 11, 2014 #2 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) So hard to believe anyone survived, just horrific to watch. Rereading about it I didn't realize a worse airship disaster happened 4 years before and killed 73 of 76 on board the USS Akron (navy scout ship) off the coast of New Jersey. I remember the Shenandoah crash in Ohio because we drove past the wreckage sight regularly for many years. Some of those not killed on the Shenandoah were later killed on the USS Akron! (wiki) Edited May 11, 2014 by QuiteContrary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZDZ Posted May 11, 2014 #3 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I'd just like to know why it took so freaking long to release this footage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.United_Nations Posted May 11, 2014 #4 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I'd just like to know why it took so freaking long to release this footage. Lost in the archives and rare footage by the looks of it, could be the onnly one left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted May 11, 2014 #5 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) Yeah, I wondered too, how does one "lose" footage of that magnitude? "site" not "sight" Edited May 11, 2014 by QuiteContrary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted May 11, 2014 #6 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Yeah, I wondered too, how does one "lose" footage of that magnitude? "site" not "sight" Mis-labelled, or correctly labelled and everyone just thought "meh, more of that same footage we've seen hundreds of times". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted May 11, 2014 #7 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) Mis-labelled, or correctly labelled and everyone just thought "meh, more of that same footage we've seen hundreds of times". Was it mishandled by the [Hindenburg?] historical society itself that was mentioned? Edited May 11, 2014 by QuiteContrary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted May 13, 2014 #8 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Wow that's great this film was found could have been lost for ever.old time boxer max scheming took this air ship back to Germany when he beat joe Lewis when max lost to joe Lewis in there rematch hilter threw max in the army lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyMonkey Posted May 13, 2014 #9 Share Posted May 13, 2014 So hard to believe anyone survived, just horrific to watch. It had to do with how quickly it burned, if it'd been a slower burn less people would have survived. As it was it burned so quickly paper survived, including letters that were part of it's cargo. And before modern day it was pretty easy to mislabel or lose stuff like this. Now with a digital record system it's easier to keep track of things. The Smithsonian is still finding things that got put into the wrong drawer or cabinet or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regeneratia Posted May 13, 2014 #10 Share Posted May 13, 2014 WOw, that was interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonFromPorlock Posted May 14, 2014 #11 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Yeah, I wondered too, how does one "lose" footage of that magnitude? Oh... that government warehouse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted May 17, 2014 #12 Share Posted May 17, 2014 If the rare archive footage has revealed another second of truth about this disaster then its a blurry truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Posted May 18, 2014 #13 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Has anyone been able to find a link to the raw footage? That NBC journalist talking over it and the cut footage made me cringe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
232 Posted May 23, 2014 #14 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Yeah, pretty lame that they secure exclusive rights to the film....and then they only air a small fraction of it. Would be great to see the full film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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