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Manny Laureano · 05-06-2007, 09:14 AM

Today is the 70th anniversary of the "Hindenburg Disaster". Those that are my age and a little younger, while not having lived through it, remember many references to it and there was even a 1975 movie made on the subject of this terrible air disaster.

Here's an article about it;

FOXNews.com - Hindenburg Survivors Mark 70th Anniversary of Crash - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

There's a very famous radio report as the Hindenburg tried to land. It was a HUGE aircraft. As described, it was way longer than a football field. Anyways, this radio broadcast is very famous and you can hear the emotion in the reporter's voice. He feels the tragic loss of human life very deeply. The audio is coupled with the visual to create a stunning scene:

YouTube - Hindenburg disaster

In the 30s and 40s and even a little into the 50s America and the rest of the world got its news through newsreels that were shown in movie theatres. Notice how even in those days it wasn't enough to present the tragedy on its own. Music was added and since there was no audio of the sreams that surely happened that terrible day, they are added, theatrically, to make it more powerful to the audience in the theatres. After all, they were there to see movies and somehow, it all seemed natural to the filmmaking mind of the day.

YouTube - Special Release - Hindenburg Explodes 1937/05/10 (1937)

Finally, in 1975, a Hollywood film was made and here are the impressions of one director as to what happened and may have happened on that day. He did have the benefit of survivors that he could have interviewed, so, for all I know much of what was represented in the film may have happened

YouTube - Destruction Of The Hindenburg

Remember, that throughout all of what you've seen, the year was 1937. This is in case you're wondering why people didn't act faster, where were the paramedics... questions from a modern day perspective that just don't apply in pre-WWII America.

So, think of the Hindenburg disaster as one of the first "What were you doing when -------- occurred?" disasters. It would be worth a call to living grandparents and for some of us, parents, to ask about that day. They might be able to offer perspective on a day in history.

Respectfully submitted,

ML

05-06-2007, 09:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
Manny Laureano Utimate User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: USA Posts: 5,989	The Hindenburg Today is the 70th anniversary of the "Hindenburg Disaster". Those that are my age and a little younger, while not having lived through it, remember many references to it and there was even a 1975 movie made on the subject of this terrible air disaster. Here's an article about it; FOXNews.com - Hindenburg Survivors Mark 70th Anniversary of Crash - Local News \| News Articles \| National News \| US News There's a very famous radio report as the Hindenburg tried to land. It was a HUGE aircraft. As described, it was way longer than a football field. Anyways, this radio broadcast is very famous and you can hear the emotion in the reporter's voice. He feels the tragic loss of human life very deeply. The audio is coupled with the visual to create a stunning scene: YouTube - Hindenburg disaster In the 30s and 40s and even a little into the 50s America and the rest of the world got its news through newsreels that were shown in movie theatres. Notice how even in those days it wasn't enough to present the tragedy on its own. Music was added and since there was no audio of the sreams that surely happened that terrible day, they are added, theatrically, to make it more powerful to the audience in the theatres. After all, they were there to see movies and somehow, it all seemed natural to the filmmaking mind of the day. YouTube - Special Release - Hindenburg Explodes 1937/05/10 (1937) Finally, in 1975, a Hollywood film was made and here are the impressions of one director as to what happened and may have happened on that day. He did have the benefit of survivors that he could have interviewed, so, for all I know much of what was represented in the film may have happened YouTube - Destruction Of The Hindenburg Remember, that throughout all of what you've seen, the year was 1937. This is in case you're wondering why people didn't act faster, where were the paramedics... questions from a modern day perspective that just don't apply in pre-WWII America. So, think of the Hindenburg disaster as one of the first "What were you doing when -------- occurred?" disasters. It would be worth a call to living grandparents and for some of us, parents, to ask about that day. They might be able to offer perspective on a day in history. Respectfully submitted, ML Last edited by Manny Laureano; 05-06-2007 at 09:18 AM.