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Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage is a 1937 documentary film which shows the burning, explosion, and crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg. (See Hindenburg disaster.) The film is narrated by Herbert Morrison, who was there to watch the zeppelin's arrival in the United States. At that time, Morrison was a 31-year-old Chicago radio reporter, whose commentary was recorded and not broadcast until later. It has been combined with the separately filmed newsreel footage. To modern eyes, the result may appear to have been a live broadcast with pictures and sound, but it was not. Four newsreel cameramen were in attendance (though there may have been fifteen in the start some may have left), but none captured the Hindenburg's first flames on film. The newsreel cameramen wanted a spectacular incident like that of the USS Akron to happen (when ground crew get pulled up), so they decided to focus all their camera lenses on the ground crew. All four stopped rolling momentarily, all missing the... full article at wikipedia
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