Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.

• Release date
• December 31, 1937
• Runtime
• 5 min
• Genres
• Documentary

Cast

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Herbert Morrison Himself - News Reporter Graham McNamee Narrator (Universal Newsreel)