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Mysteries in the Archives: 1937 Crash of the Hindenburg
200726 min 1 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Serge Viallet
Production: Florence Fanelli
Co-produced by ARTE France and Institut national de l'audiovisuel with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, in association with YLE Teema - Ritva Leino and RTSI-Televisione Svizzera, and with the participation of the National Film Board of Canada.
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As night fell near in Lakehurst, New Jersey, near New York City, on May 6, 1937, the German dirigible the Hindenburg exploded. Four different newsreel company cameramen filmed one of the biggest scoops in the history of scoops. Was it an accident or a terrorist attack? We’ll never know, but what were four cameramen doing in Lakehurst as night took away the light, and rain fell?
All four scoops are deciphered and analyzed – as is the canny use of the new media for the American promotion of a dirigible brandishing the Nazi swastika. The Hindenburg had been forbidden to fly over England and France!
Subject categories
- Transportation > Aeronautics and Aerospace
- History > Historical PerpectivesWorld History
Credits
- idea
- Serge Viallet
- Cédric Lépée
- series director
- Serge Viallet
- director
- Serge Viallet
- editor
- Alexandre Auque
- assistant editor
- Vanessa Bozza
- editing intern
- Thomas Fioretti
- graphic design
- Stéphanie Mée
- historical research
- Cedric Gruat
- musical illustration
- Niels Poux
- credit sequence design
- Philippe Truffault
- credit sequence production
- Philippe Truffault
- credit sequence editor
- François Labat
- translator
- Dana Burns Westberg
- narrator
- Dana Burns Westberg
- documentalist
- Michael Dolan
- sound design
- Laurent Thomas
- Jean-François Gasnier
- mix
- Laurent Thomas
- Jean-François Gasnier
- colour correction
- Rémi Berge
- production manager
- Thierry Ippolito
- production assistant
- Vincent Encontre
- Armelle Jayet
- commissioning editor
- Elisabeth Hulten
- administrator
- Yasmine Boucherat
- producer
- Florence Fanelli