That must have been truely terrifying to see. The Hindenburg was the largest thing ever to fly so imagine how massive those flames were and the heat that came off them
At 00:58 a group of five or so that survived the initial explosion and impact can be seen running towards the nose only to have the flaming wreckage crash down on them. One of them just stops about a half a second beforehand, seemingly accepting of his or her fate.
a lot less deaths. 25 out of 96. 1/? on the ground. so 26 deaths in total. i will say 26/97 because i don’t know the number of ground people. titanic killed over 1,500 only 705 survived. though i dont think the sank and killed any divers..
I remember my teacher showing us this in Jr. high . You can see the survivors running for their lives . This was one of the first disaster caught on film .
Our grade 7 teacher showed us the Pathe news one for science, we were learning about the periodic table and its elements. We had to do an assignment on the Hindenburg because it was filled with hydrogen. Just a sheet to fill out about what hydrogen is, its characteristics, what place it played in the disaster, etc.
Tell'emSteveDave Who tf cares they are still people most of them weren’t even soldiers so not even nazis (btw I really hope somebody says the same at your funeral)
Back in my day, we complained about those damned locomotives! It was back in 1830 when they first opened the first inter city passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester! Oh, we protested against it for days we did! We insisted people would still use a cart and wagon and I still stand by it! Now, my story begins in 1830, I woke up at 8:dickety-two! We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word for twenty! Oh, I chased that rascal to get it back but I gave up after dickety-six miles! Anyway, back to the story. The breakfeast I ate was bacon and egg I got from a farm nearby! Oh, that was a good farm, I remember when I was a child, I used to sneak in the barn and scare the cows. Now, where was I? Oh right, after my breakfeast I took my horse and wagon to the locomotives which was kind of ironic since I was heading to Liverpool to protest them, or did I just take my horse and wagon straight to Liverpool? I believe it was the latter, anyway. Before I headed out I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time! After 1 hour and dickety minutes I finally reached Liverpool, only to realize I forgot my sign I had to use to protest the locomotives! So I headed back home, grabbed the sign and headed back to Liverpool! After that I tied myself to a lamp post nearby the locomotive station! People first thought I was crazy and I came this close to being send to a mental institute! But I finally convinced them to protest the locomotives, now the law enforcment sprayed water at us, but none of us gave up! I remember how the water hoose was invented, it back back in WW1. No wait, that hasn't happened yet, now where was I? Right, the most important part was that I had an onion tied to my belt! Which was the style at the time, we didn't have yellow onions because of the war! But the mayor himself came up to us and offered us a free trip on the locomotive all we had to do was stop protesting! Some cowards accepted the offer, but me and some other people kept protesting for days! People kept using the locomotive although I made some very good points about still using the horse and wagon! Those damn nobels in their fancy hats! All I had was a cap I had since I was a child, did I ever tell you the story about that cap? If was back in 1813, I had just turned 13 and my dad gave it to me as a birthday gift! Now, where was I? Oh right, I eventually gave up on protesting after I realized a war had begun! Now, this was in 1914, the Duke of Austria-Hungary had been assassinated a month back, now, the way I found out that the old chap had been assassinated was from a newspaper boy which was stationed next to me! I offered him a penny for the newspaper, but the boy refused! He said that newspaper prices had increased since 1830! I said poppycocks and tied myself loose to join the war! But the thing is, America didn't join the war untill later. But I still came into the army! I was stationed in Northen France. One day the Germans attacked and nearly captured our trench! Oh, but we fought them off for hours we did! At this point I no longer had an onion tied to my belt! After the Germans nearly captured our trench I was stationed in Cario! I even saw Lawrence himself, I did! Anyway, I stayed there to the the war in 1918. After that, we all thought there wasn't going to be another war, oh how foolish we was. Not even 30 years after that another war broke out when some chap named Adolf Hiter invaded Poland! Now, the Japanese had fought the Chinese a year or so before that, but no one considered that a war! Anyway, I joined the army in 1940 and I was stationed in Tobruk! One day Rommel and his forces attacked us and we had to fend them off for months! We even started our own newspaper! After Rommel finally gave up, I was stationed in London where we were heading out towards France for a bombing run! When we came back, we had appearently invaded France! And appearently Rommel tried to assassinate Hitler, and we tought Rommel was a bad guy! Anyway, back to the story which I forgot what the point of if it is. After that we invaded Sicily and we even got some help from the Mafia back in America! After that, we defeated Mussolini, and freed Italy and Europe, after that we invaded Germany itself and eventually made it to Berlin, appearently the communist bastards were there already! By the time I got there, they had already captured the Reichstag and Hitler had appearenly commited suicide in his bunker, along with his wife Eva and some a few Nazi generals! Oh, we celebrated for days, even weeks before we realized Japan hasn't surrendered yet, we dropped some new kind of bomb on them, two of them actually. They surrendered after a few days and the war was officaly over! Germany was divided into four parts, the Soviets got the Eastern part, America, Britain and France got the Western part. And I was shipped back home, 1 hour and dickety minutes from Liverpool. And that was my story, that was of course the shorter version of it. If you want the long version, then ask Winton Churchill, he was my friend way back when I was protesting against the locomotives!
Life is Good False. Hydrogen at concentrations over 75% is fully inert; speculation exists (and ongoing experiments have proved) that the cause of the fire was not a hydrogen leak but rather an explosive reaction between the chemicals used in the paint on the ship's skin and static buildup. Hydrogen rather fueled the fire. With today's technology it could be done safely, but misconception leading to a tainted public image has killed off hydrogen airships.
Wow, the actual audio of the Hindenburg crashing! I'm so used to seeing that footage dubbed with Herbert Morrison's famous reporting on the disaster ("Oh the humanity and all the passengers screaming around it!")
Interesting that this appears to be the only audio of this famous event apart from Herb Morrison's recording. In this video you can hear: "Oh my God!" then "Al, just shoot it, shoot it!" then something garbled, then "Come on, hurry up! Come on, back up! Get the shot!" then "You're all right now Al!" I guess Al Gold started to climb down from the top of the van, instinctively retreating from the intense heat and noise. Then Addison Trice is urging him to keep filming. I think that roar you can hear in the meantime is genuine, because it sounds like multiple explosions and roars, as eyewitnesses recounted.
The initial blast sounds simulated but yes the rest of the sounds are probably real. The Paramount one sounds convincing and even has a cracking sound when the side of the airship bends inward, but listen carefully and you can hear what sounds like windchimes. The Pathe one was simulated as there were mostly Navy men where the cameramen were filming, not screaming women. The only thing that might be real is when someone yells "shoot! shoot!" but I'm not sure if William Deeke was accompanied by a cameraman. I read somewhere that Hearst Newsreel had a sound engineer as well, but in their newsreel dubbed a lot of dramatic music over it so I'm not sure if the actual sound is being used. Universal Newsreel used Hearst's footage but made their own dub, again with dubbed music and a canned screaming audience.
This is all interesting because the Hindenburg was the first disaster to be recorded as it happened, but to us it seems weird that there's little sound. We're used to HD video and surround audio
I knew a woman, in her old age, who told me that when she was a young girl she lived in New Jersey near the shore, and would see the airships come in. She would wave to the passengers as by the time they passed over they were fairly low. She did see the Hindenburg that day, but the landing field was past their line of sight so she didn't see the crash.
My 9th-grade art teacher told us students of him and a few friends watching it in the air shortly before the accident when he was a kid. He also did not see the crash. That was in 1977. He was 10 years old at the time.
My dad and i were talking about the disaster, then we were done talking, and once we turned on the phone and looked at the news, we saw that the last survivor has died. :(
The explosion was caused by friction with the ground that ran up the wires and caused a spark inside the blimp. In this video the speaker says that the gas was not flammable but this is false. To save on costs they used hydrogen instead of helium which is incredibly flammable. Additionally, the Hindenburg actually made many trips around the entire world, it even went through NYC with the mayor and a few other important figures around at the time. Finally, the blimp was named after the ruler of Germany at the time (the blimp is German if you didn't know) just before Hitler took over. He was especially weary of Hitler and did not approve of his noticeable but slow taking over of the german people. He was eventually kicked out.
Also, if you notice, it actually burns fairly slowly instead of just popping like a balloon. This is because it was built with several chambers inside that stored the air. When the blimp lost air, only one of the chambers would be lost and not the entire blimp. And if they lost a lot of air, they had barrels of water underneath it that they could drain to lift some of the weight.
Another thing, many people in the comments are questioning how so many people survived this and that is because: 1 the explosion started at the back 2 the passengers are in a completely different part of the blimp, in a space underneath the blimp you can see it at 0:28
@@AverageDoctor345 No, the press were especially aware of the ship's flammability. Truman Talley, the producer at Movietone News, insisted cameramen be always present on the Hindenburg's landings because he had the uncanny feeling it would be destroyed someday, much to the disgruntlement of cameramen like Al Gold. Other newsreels like the American dub of this one also say "highly inflammable hydrogen". It's just that this narrator does not say "*highly* inflammable which makes it sound less dangerous, but he still says "carefully manouevered towards her hangar". The Germans were less worried because they had more extensive experience with airships overall.
I just watched The Waltons S5 E20. John Boy was sent on assignment to report on The Hindenburg while it was coming in. While he was there he witnessed the disaster and he still had to write an article on it for the newspaper but he was having difficulties with it as he was having flashbacks of the disaster and knowing that people suffered and died. It is a good episode and it made me come looking for the real Footage.
of course she did.... and my grandma called me five minutes before 9/11 happened to tell me she felt a disturbance in the force.... Do you have any idea how many people have horrible feelings and yet nothing happens? Then one day when they have a horrible feeling and something horrible happens they call it being intuitive instead of playing the odds....
@@damien18462 they didn’t jump from the sky they did when it was near the ground, the heat would have been hundreds of times worse then the cuts and possible hurt ancle
I think it woulda been way worse if this happened at a higher elevation and over the ocean. Crazy that it happened literally at the last minutes before landing and amazing that there is footage of what took place..
The number who survived was made possible by the fact their cabin was pretty far from the worst of the blaze. What I don't understand is why, after 20 routine flights, there was so much uncertainty and confusion. Having to dump water ballast several times and not being able to navigate to the mooring tower seems like this was a totally preventable tragedy.
what?..... They hardly expected the rear to drop like it did and I don't they ever imagined in a million years it would continue to drop after dumping all of that water out and releasing all of that hydrogen from the front.... Not to mention you act like 20 routine flights is significant at all.... Its not....
@@jgrab1 just a guess. it sounds like a reasonable thing someone would be saying at the time. but the explosion sounds like a generic ww2 era sound effect to me
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over New Jersey on May 6, 1937
Life is Good 360, my mistype. Still, 360p isn't even standard definition TV. These original films were shot on 35mm and even as old as they are would look far better in 1080p. I'm assuming they're scanned at least at 1080p if not 4K for archiving, so presenting them here dumbed down to below-standard def is a waste.
I think Movietone/AP just wants to keep them at low resolution so that people buy them, like how Getty Images and Corbis have been doing for still photos. Some airship photo collectors have received cease-or-desist letters from stock photo agencies not to post airship photos, even those from private collections. Even Pathe has uploaded their Hindenburg newsreel in 720p (it might have been upscaled from standard definition but still much better quality than Movietone's). There's also a 35mm transfer seen here (unfortunately still has a watermark): 1933 Hindenburg Airship Crash, HD from 35mm And here's Hearst Newsreel from Framepool (now they put an even larger watermark on their site): Disastro Hindenburg a Lakehurst in archivio e storico There's some compression (maybe due to UA-cam) so it's hard to tell whether it was really transferred to HD. I remember someone uploaded a 1080p version (still has watermark and frameskip) years before but it was deleted. I've seen some photos that appear to be high-quality prints from the newreel footage - one shows the airship dropping ballast (from Paramount Newsreel) and another from the Universal/Hearst Newsreel with the sailor in the foreground backing away. There's some cuts from all four Hindenburg disaster newsreels in the 1975 movie which was more recently transferred to HD. Not very sharp and a bit lacking in contrast but you can see more details as most of it has been cropped up close.
0:59 this makes me cry look at the people at the bottom on the front they could not make it they tried jumping and some people on the ground then it falls this is seeing people die rip
Actually there a couple seconds of video missing, right before the explosion happened. Kind of weird that they videoed this and then just happened to miss the couple seconds when the explosion happened.
I was stationed in lakehurst in 1969-70 and met a man who had a grandmother who witnessed this tragedy. I remember sitting with her and her vivid eye witness account was riveting. I will always remember this as long as I live. ABE2 MICHAEL GEARY
why is there a cut? You tell me they stopped filming right when the landing lines were dropped? and then mid explosion, already pointing at it, they started again?
My grandpa said he saw the hindenburg fly over his house. When he was a kid in Connecticut. He said his mom brought him in the house because she didn't like it.
Kinda odd that with all the press and cameras present, you don't see the moment of ignition. Also, this was trip 37 I think, why is this the only footage of the hindenburg? It's odd.
I know, lol. But look at what they captured, it's a historical event that we wouldn't have been able to see if they didn't continue filming. Someone has to do it, someone has to capture these things on Film for future generations. That's what journalism is like. It may seem callous to have kept on filming but there were other people there who were probably helping any injured people.
it's because the company that built the Hindenburg used hydrogen instead of helium as the lifting gas, hydrogen is a very dangerous gas because it is highly flammable, hence why the fire destroyed the Hindenburg so quickly. Before the Hindenburg was built, other rigid airships were built using helium as the main or only source of lifting gas, unlike hydrogen, helium is not flammable, so it is a much safer gas to use. But helium was also more expensive so the Hindenburg builders cut corners and used the much more dangerous hydrogen instead which was cheaper to produce. Once again another example of greedy companies putting profits before people's safety.
Now we have commercial Boeing flights crashing straight into the ground from computer glitches and no one bats an eye.... They have been worse than this Hindenburg disaster, with hundreds of passengers dying instantly. And people talk about it for 2 days then forget...
Contact WLS radio in Chicago. They have the "tapes" and played some during a 100th anniversary weekend in 2024. I can't recall his name, but the reporter was employed by WLS.
@@topwatertremors895 that's wierd I have been on an airplane, in the sky that was hit by lightning, there have been a few crashes caused by lightening.
@@willr7849I don't know anything about airplanes, but I guess most of the fatal lightning crashes would be due to instrumentation malfunction rather than the lightning damaging the plane's structure itself
"There was a big flash, a loud bang, and it caught fire from end to end, oh, the humanity....." "Very interesting Ma'am, but we wanted you to tell us about how you survived the Titanic....."
The last survivor, Werner Doehner, just died a few days ago. He was 8 at the time of the accident.
Oh i see
he died 3 weeks ago.
@@TheSpawnacus oh grow up kiddo.
8? This was in 1937
@@martinford1988
He was 8 in 1937...
That must have been truely terrifying to see. The Hindenburg was the largest thing ever to fly so imagine how massive those flames were and the heat that came off them
if ur mom ever got a plane ticket, the hindenburg is beat
HEYOOOOOO!!!!
@@brovid-19 not funny at all
hot enough to weaken the metal frame and cause it to collapse under its own weight
@@brovid-19 what are you? Like 12?
*truly
At 00:58 a group of five or so that survived the initial explosion and impact can be seen running towards the nose only to have the flaming wreckage crash down on them. One of them just stops about a half a second beforehand, seemingly accepting of his or her fate.
How the heck did you see that this video is so blurry and grey it took me 10+ replays to see what you were talking about.
There were 62 survivors. 60 percent of passengers
@@cortinasnermen meanwhile 737 max 8 2 crashes 0 survivors!!
Or, they could be looking at the wreckage, but I like your interpretation. It could be either of ours or neither.
You have eyes of an eagle. Not easy to see the detail.
This thing is the titanic of the sky
UrBoiDizzy I just saw a UA-cam video named that that was made not that long ago
*skytanic*
a lot less deaths. 25 out of 96. 1/? on the ground. so 26 deaths in total. i will say 26/97 because i don’t know the number of ground people.
titanic killed over 1,500 only 705 survived. though i dont think the sank and killed any divers..
I love your Profile picture
@@ChipChopTore I love yours too :0
R.I.P. everyone who was on the Hindenburg, and headphone users
Nah don’t rip everybody who was on it Dumb Nazi’s
Not all of the people died
Even there an american board da ship
Not everyone 67 survive
@@fabricsdrawingchannel9784 It was only funded by Nazis you idiot, plus Nazi or not, they were still innocent people.
I remember my teacher showing us this in Jr. high . You can see the survivors running for their lives . This was one of the first disaster caught on film .
sounds like a decent teacher.
Our grade 7 teacher showed us the Pathe news one for science, we were learning about the periodic table and its elements. We had to do an assignment on the Hindenburg because it was filled with hydrogen. Just a sheet to fill out about what hydrogen is, its characteristics, what place it played in the disaster, etc.
May the victims rest in peace but you must admit, it's quite an incredible sight. I can't imagine the heat that would be coming off it.
Mr. DragonPig the man on top of the tower would have definitely felt the heat.
They were Nazis. Fuck them.
Tell'emSteveDave Ignorant Puppet
@@InsurgentsNetwork No
Tell'emSteveDave Who tf cares they are still people most of them weren’t even soldiers so not even nazis (btw I really hope somebody says the same at your funeral)
It was absolutely amazing that so many survived
"Timeless " tv show brought me here ..It's amazing anybody survived this explosion
M Howard That makes 2 of us.
there was a boy named Werner Franz that survived he was only 14 years old
how the hell did they survive that?
I know right? How they hell could only 35 out of the 97 civilians and 45 crew members survive this?
It's incredible that anyone survived that. 😲
Well...Most of the passengers&the crew survived. Of a total of 97 passengers 35 died.
0:38 not to worry we're still flying half a airship
1:07 another happy landing
@@ashleyhecker4148 star wars?
@@achista5603 yes
Ah yes. A man of culture.
Lol
Kids these day and their cinematographs...
Back in my day, we complained about those damned locomotives! It was back in 1830 when they first opened the first inter city passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester! Oh, we protested against it for days we did! We insisted people would still use a cart and wagon and I still stand by it!
Now, my story begins in 1830, I woke up at 8:dickety-two! We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word for twenty! Oh, I chased that rascal to get it back but I gave up after dickety-six miles! Anyway, back to the story. The breakfeast I ate was bacon and egg I got from a farm nearby! Oh, that was a good farm, I remember when I was a child, I used to sneak in the barn and scare the cows. Now, where was I? Oh right, after my breakfeast I took my horse and wagon to the locomotives which was kind of ironic since I was heading to Liverpool to protest them, or did I just take my horse and wagon straight to Liverpool? I believe it was the latter, anyway. Before I headed out I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time! After 1 hour and dickety minutes I finally reached Liverpool, only to realize I forgot my sign I had to use to protest the locomotives! So I headed back home, grabbed the sign and headed back to Liverpool! After that I tied myself to a lamp post nearby the locomotive station!
People first thought I was crazy and I came this close to being send to a mental institute! But I finally convinced them to protest the locomotives, now the law enforcment sprayed water at us, but none of us gave up! I remember how the water hoose was invented, it back back in WW1. No wait, that hasn't happened yet, now where was I? Right, the most important part was that I had an onion tied to my belt! Which was the style at the time, we didn't have yellow onions because of the war! But the mayor himself came up to us and offered us a free trip on the locomotive all we had to do was stop protesting! Some cowards accepted the offer, but me and some other people kept protesting for days! People kept using the locomotive although I made some very good points about still using the horse and wagon! Those damn nobels in their fancy hats! All I had was a cap I had since I was a child, did I ever tell you the story about that cap?
If was back in 1813, I had just turned 13 and my dad gave it to me as a birthday gift! Now, where was I? Oh right, I eventually gave up on protesting after I realized a war had begun! Now, this was in 1914, the Duke of Austria-Hungary had been assassinated a month back, now, the way I found out that the old chap had been assassinated was from a newspaper boy which was stationed next to me! I offered him a penny for the newspaper, but the boy refused! He said that newspaper prices had increased since 1830! I said poppycocks and tied myself loose to join the war! But the thing is, America didn't join the war untill later. But I still came into the army! I was stationed in Northen France. One day the Germans attacked and nearly captured our trench! Oh, but we fought them off for hours we did! At this point I no longer had an onion tied to my belt!
After the Germans nearly captured our trench I was stationed in Cario! I even saw Lawrence himself, I did! Anyway, I stayed there to the the war in 1918. After that, we all thought there wasn't going to be another war, oh how foolish we was. Not even 30 years after that another war broke out when some chap named Adolf Hiter invaded Poland! Now, the Japanese had fought the Chinese a year or so before that, but no one considered that a war! Anyway, I joined the army in 1940 and I was stationed in Tobruk! One day Rommel and his forces attacked us and we had to fend them off for months! We even started our own newspaper! After Rommel finally gave up, I was stationed in London where we were heading out towards France for a bombing run! When we came back, we had appearently invaded France! And appearently Rommel tried to assassinate Hitler, and we tought Rommel was a bad guy! Anyway, back to the story which I forgot what the point of if it is.
After that we invaded Sicily and we even got some help from the Mafia back in America! After that, we defeated Mussolini, and freed Italy and Europe, after that we invaded Germany itself and eventually made it to Berlin, appearently the communist bastards were there already! By the time I got there, they had already captured the Reichstag and Hitler had appearenly commited suicide in his bunker, along with his wife Eva and some a few Nazi generals! Oh, we celebrated for days, even weeks before we realized Japan hasn't surrendered yet, we dropped some new kind of bomb on them, two of them actually. They surrendered after a few days and the war was officaly over! Germany was divided into four parts, the Soviets got the Eastern part, America, Britain and France got the Western part. And I was shipped back home, 1 hour and dickety minutes from Liverpool.
And that was my story, that was of course the shorter version of it. If you want the long version, then ask Winton Churchill, he was my friend way back when I was protesting against the locomotives!
@@NerevarOfficialReal ok boomer
@@TMthe33rd noon
@@danielcoy4938 kids these days and their disgusting attitude...
Ok boomer
We should never forget the moments that have changed our world!
Life is Good
False. Hydrogen at concentrations over 75% is fully inert; speculation exists (and ongoing experiments have proved) that the cause of the fire
was not a hydrogen leak but rather an explosive reaction between the chemicals used in the paint on the ship's skin and static buildup. Hydrogen rather fueled the fire. With today's technology it could be done safely, but misconception leading to a tainted public image has killed off hydrogen airships.
i agree with you
They will be coming back soon!
Umm.. but the Hindenburg disaster didnt change anything.
@@obiwanfisher537 it's an event in HoI4, so there's that
Wow, the actual audio of the Hindenburg crashing! I'm so used to seeing that footage dubbed with Herbert Morrison's famous reporting on the disaster ("Oh the humanity and all the passengers screaming around it!")
Interesting that this appears to be the only audio of this famous event apart from Herb Morrison's recording. In this video you can hear: "Oh my God!" then "Al, just shoot it, shoot it!" then something garbled, then "Come on, hurry up! Come on, back up! Get the shot!" then "You're all right now Al!" I guess Al Gold started to climb down from the top of the van, instinctively retreating from the intense heat and noise. Then Addison Trice is urging him to keep filming. I think that roar you can hear in the meantime is genuine, because it sounds like multiple explosions and roars, as eyewitnesses recounted.
The initial blast sounds simulated but yes the rest of the sounds are probably real. The Paramount one sounds convincing and even has a cracking sound when the side of the airship bends inward, but listen carefully and you can hear what sounds like windchimes. The Pathe one was simulated as there were mostly Navy men where the cameramen were filming, not screaming women. The only thing that might be real is when someone yells "shoot! shoot!" but I'm not sure if William Deeke was accompanied by a cameraman. I read somewhere that Hearst Newsreel had a sound engineer as well, but in their newsreel dubbed a lot of dramatic music over it so I'm not sure if the actual sound is being used. Universal Newsreel used Hearst's footage but made their own dub, again with dubbed music and a canned screaming audience.
This is all interesting because the Hindenburg was the first disaster to be recorded as it happened, but to us it seems weird that there's little sound. We're used to HD video and surround audio
Sounds like that exact wording is played twice.
Ur annoying and selfish
This is where the legend of the Cameraman was born
I knew a woman, in her old age, who told me that when she was a young girl she lived in New Jersey near the shore, and would see the airships come in. She would wave to the passengers as by the time they passed over they were fairly low. She did see the Hindenburg that day, but the landing field was past their line of sight so she didn't see the crash.
My 9th-grade art teacher told us students of him and a few friends watching it in the air shortly before the accident when he was a kid. He also did not see the crash. That was in 1977. He was 10 years old at the time.
My dad and i were talking about the disaster, then we were done talking, and once we turned on the phone and looked at the news, we saw that the last survivor has died. :(
That would make a bitchin' album cover
Milo Graham Led Zeppelin - Red Zeppelin
I think Led Zeppelin did it i think
@@PATTCORP That was the joke.
Hindenburg: The Fallen
i feel bad for laughing
It flew from Germany to New Jersey? That is just... incredible...
The explosion was caused by friction with the ground that ran up the wires and caused a spark inside the blimp.
In this video the speaker says that the gas was not flammable but this is false. To save on costs they used hydrogen instead of helium which is incredibly flammable.
Additionally, the Hindenburg actually made many trips around the entire world, it even went through NYC with the mayor and a few other important figures around at the time.
Finally, the blimp was named after the ruler of Germany at the time (the blimp is German if you didn't know) just before Hitler took over. He was especially weary of Hitler and did not approve of his noticeable but slow taking over of the german people. He was eventually kicked out.
Also, if you notice, it actually burns fairly slowly instead of just popping like a balloon. This is because it was built with several chambers inside that stored the air. When the blimp lost air, only one of the chambers would be lost and not the entire blimp. And if they lost a lot of air, they had barrels of water underneath it that they could drain to lift some of the weight.
Another thing, many people in the comments are questioning how so many people survived this and that is because:
1 the explosion started at the back
2 the passengers are in a completely different part of the blimp, in a space underneath the blimp you can see it at 0:28
"Inflammable" means the same as flammable, not "not flammable" www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flammable-or-inflammable
@@anunheardtruth3071 True, but "not flammable" was what they were implying. Why would anyone advertise their airship as being highly flammable?
@@AverageDoctor345 No, the press were especially aware of the ship's flammability. Truman Talley, the producer at Movietone News, insisted cameramen be always present on the Hindenburg's landings because he had the uncanny feeling it would be destroyed someday, much to the disgruntlement of cameramen like Al Gold. Other newsreels like the American dub of this one also say "highly inflammable hydrogen". It's just that this narrator does not say "*highly* inflammable which makes it sound less dangerous, but he still says "carefully manouevered towards her hangar". The Germans were less worried because they had more extensive experience with airships overall.
I can’t imagine what that’s must’ve been like for those on board.
and dangerous
Probably super hot and loud.
I just watched The Waltons S5 E20.
John Boy was sent on assignment to report on The Hindenburg while it was coming in.
While he was there he witnessed the disaster and he still had to write an article on it for the newspaper but he was having difficulties with it as he was having flashbacks of the disaster and knowing that people suffered and died.
It is a good episode and it made me come looking for the real Footage.
I did the same thing watched the Waltons and looked up footage.
My grandma saw the ship 2 hours before it crashed..She had a horrible feeling...2 hours later this happened.
Maybe she has the Shining. In all seriousness women are more intuitive than men.
@@danielhainline8882 oh yeah, she did.. Grandma always was very intuitive..Now my mom and I are but not as much as grandma.
of course she did.... and my grandma called me five minutes before 9/11 happened to tell me she felt a disturbance in the force.... Do you have any idea how many people have horrible feelings and yet nothing happens? Then one day when they have a horrible feeling and something horrible happens they call it being intuitive instead of playing the odds....
0:58 i faintly heard "OH THE HUMANITY"
I think it’s oh the calamity
Internet Historian brought us here
86 years ago today is when this happened. RIP to everyone who died from this disaster
RIP
To the 36 passengers and crew who were killed in the Hindenburg disaster
How the hell did 2/3 of the passengers on board survive this....
There were windows on the bottom and most of them jumped out
LiterateHawk Still though, I can’t imagine the pain from jumping that high.
@@damien18462 they didn’t jump from the sky they did when it was near the ground, the heat would have been hundreds of times worse then the cuts and possible hurt ancle
@@messeduppika5314 Dude planes are huge, still it would’ve hurt
@@damien18462 they didn’t jump from any hieght that would hurt them tho, they didn’t jump from the sky
kind of crazy how this thing looks even more futuristic than today's planes and aircrafts
I think it woulda been way worse if this happened at a higher elevation and over the ocean.
Crazy that it happened literally at the last minutes before landing and amazing that there is footage of what took place..
Gotta love that Led Zeppelin
god damn, their music is so fire that it caused a disaster
*bird flies into engine*
*gets shredded by propeller*
*Hindenburg erupts in flames*
*The rest is history*
Oh boy 😂
kid playing with bb gun
The number who survived was made possible by the fact their cabin was pretty far from the worst of the blaze. What I don't understand is why, after 20 routine flights, there was so much uncertainty and confusion. Having to dump water ballast several times and not being able to navigate to the mooring tower seems like this was a totally preventable tragedy.
what?..... They hardly expected the rear to drop like it did and I don't they ever imagined in a million years it would continue to drop after dumping all of that water out and releasing all of that hydrogen from the front....
Not to mention you act like 20 routine flights is significant at all.... Its not....
they had to dump ballast several times because the rear kept dropping and they were circling the mooring tower to get a better landing angle
They were dumping water because the Hindenburg was tilting to the stern because of the hydrogen leak that ultimately started the fire.
Glorious, so majestic and tragic. To see a zepplin in flight must have been magificent.
"Just absolutely breathtaking. Until you realize that everyone's screwed" -Felix, Red vs Blue
I love the way they added sound effects in those days to news footage.
i think some of the sounds were definitely added but the " oh my god" and "shoot it!" seem real
@@scoldingwhisper How do you know?
@@jgrab1 just a guess. it sounds like a reasonable thing someone would be saying at the time. but the explosion sounds like a generic ww2 era sound effect to me
@@jgrab1 They did have a sound engineer present, his name was Addison Tice.
I’m surprised that people survived that disaster. It like escalated quickly in Seconds!
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over New Jersey on May 6, 1937
Fun fact: I saw James May cause the hindenburg disaster with his caravan airship
My mother mentioned this just now so naturally, I looked it up.
This looks... devastating.
Vriska is my wife, get out dont worry this was a Nazi blimp
@@dagon7936 yeah but they were innocent people, not Nazi officials
@@dagon7936 It was a civilian transport
Oh boy, it was.
why does the video cut? the initial cause/flame or what ever is missing
0:37 x2 that is how my little Hindenburg from my project ended up. It’s really that fast
Is there any video of when the actual explosion started? It seems there were a couple different cameras as it was coming in.
seems like everyone had their camera off unfortunately. there is one 8mm film by Harold N. Schenck which starts a bit earlier than the others
There actually is a recording of the explosion from the side
ua-cam.com/video/OetzoO3Csj4/v-deo.htmlsi=DBZP0OqH1m04lO-I
Holy shit they made the cover of Led Zeppelin 1 into a real thing.
Amazing how fast and hot it burned for the frame to just basically melt.
Incredible archive, though I wish they were presented in something better than 380p quality.
Life is Good 360, my mistype. Still, 360p isn't even standard definition TV. These original films were shot on 35mm and even as old as they are would look far better in 1080p. I'm assuming they're scanned at least at 1080p if not 4K for archiving, so presenting them here dumbed down to below-standard def is a waste.
I think Movietone/AP just wants to keep them at low resolution so that people buy them, like how Getty Images and Corbis have been doing for still photos. Some airship photo collectors have received cease-or-desist letters from stock photo agencies not to post airship photos, even those from private collections.
Even Pathe has uploaded their Hindenburg newsreel in 720p (it might have been upscaled from standard definition but still much better quality than Movietone's). There's also a 35mm transfer seen here (unfortunately still has a watermark): 1933 Hindenburg Airship Crash, HD from 35mm
And here's Hearst Newsreel from Framepool (now they put an even larger watermark on their site): Disastro Hindenburg a Lakehurst in archivio e storico
There's some compression (maybe due to UA-cam) so it's hard to tell whether it was really transferred to HD. I remember someone uploaded a 1080p version (still has watermark and frameskip) years before but it was deleted.
I've seen some photos that appear to be high-quality prints from the newreel footage - one shows the airship dropping ballast (from Paramount Newsreel) and another from the Universal/Hearst Newsreel with the sailor in the foreground backing away. There's some cuts from all four Hindenburg disaster newsreels in the 1975 movie which was more recently transferred to HD. Not very sharp and a bit lacking in contrast but you can see more details as most of it has been cropped up close.
Getty... try to charge you $800 USD to use a picture from the 1930s which is Public Domain...
0:59 this makes me cry look at the people at the bottom on the front they could not make it they tried jumping and some people on the ground then it falls this is seeing people die rip
Can't believe people survived this...
Actually there a couple seconds of video missing, right before the explosion happened. Kind of weird that they videoed this and then just happened to miss the couple seconds when the explosion happened.
I was stationed in lakehurst in 1969-70 and met a man who had a grandmother who witnessed this tragedy. I remember sitting with her and her vivid eye witness account was riveting. I will always remember this as long as I live. ABE2 MICHAEL GEARY
very cool
now what you have to do is try and recount her account as well as you can for us
I still don't see how anyone survived the falling explosion, even after leaping from the cabin.
just WOW! ...so sad
Why doesn't it show a direct shot "when suddenly"?
May the victims rest in peace
2/3 survived but how many of those were horribly burned? The intense heat would almost be enough to want to be dead.
This disaster is on the scale of the Bruins losing to the Panthers
why is there a cut? You tell me they stopped filming right when the landing lines were dropped? and then mid explosion, already pointing at it, they started again?
the camera panned down anticipating it's landing likely, and panned back up when it exploded, the exact moment was never caught on film
@@ThrarmAnimation panned yes, stopped filming and started filming when already perfectly on the object? not likely.
It’s so mesmerizing to see an entire zeppelin turn into a pile of burnt material in less than 30 seconds
Great work on capturing the thing after it already exploded camera man
It's impressive that it was captured at all
Why am I watching videos like this when I could just be watching happy videos?
Dragon lynx idk that’s u anyway enjoy the ballon lol
bc happy videos are filled with kids and balloons. this classifies as a happy video.
0:43 You can see one of the crewman falling to his death from the bow
Were they listening to my mixtape
@@lovelytv9649 Dark Humour exists for a reason. It's the best medicine to maintain one's sanity in this cruel and unforgiving world.
Bruh
🐣🔥💯 lil yung duck fyre
Take my like and get out
Filthy Frank says your mixtape is trash.
omfg.. how old is your channel?
As old as Joe
Bloons tower defense 6 moab popping sfx
Never ask Ninja Kiwi where they got the MOAB popping sound.
Why are the Battlefield 1 graphics look too gray?
It was a wonder anyone survived this. And I didnt know there was footage of this. Incredible and sad.
Why is there never unedited footage? Its always chopped up so u don't actually see it start
They didn’t get the explosion in the footage
Battlefield 1 in a nutshell.
Ya Boi Ovaru how.
Barack Obama your a sick man get out of your country I don’t live in America
Clearly you don’t know what a battlefield is or looks like
Tracey Arentt it's a joke
@@Wumblly and it's a video game so I'm just gonna call you and the guy who missed the joke idiots
My grandpa said he saw the hindenburg fly over his house. When he was a kid in Connecticut. He said his mom brought him in the house because she didn't like it.
Even back then : "Shoot it! Shoot it!"
Davey! How you doin?
That a lot of damage
What is the meaning of this Hindenburg?
Infographics show brought me here
Same here bruh
We are learning this in school this week
"Oh the humanity"
Kinda odd that with all the press and cameras present, you don't see the moment of ignition. Also, this was trip 37 I think, why is this the only footage of the hindenburg? It's odd.
in the days of my youth i was told what it was to be a man
Now I've reached that age I've tried to do all those things, the best I can
sounds like an extremely good microphone for 1937 standards
The fact that anyone lived is remarkable... prayers to the fallen 🙏
I've driven past the area of Hangar 1 so many times right off the intersection of CR 571 and CR 547 in NJ. 85 years ago yesterday.
These my people, are my Math grades.... they uh, collapsed to the ground as well
Same but with english
same but with french
News reporter didn't give a damn, LOL. He was just like "shoot it, shoot it" to the cameraman. He only cared about getting that shot.
I know, lol. But look at what they captured, it's a historical event that we wouldn't have been able to see if they didn't continue filming.
Someone has to do it, someone has to capture these things on Film for future generations. That's what journalism is like. It may seem callous to have kept on filming but there were other people there who were probably helping any injured people.
Hindenburg: alright guys I'm just gonna go lie down for a bit...
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE 36 PEOPLE DIED
Hindenburg:*Dies*
my brain can never compute how FAST the flames engulfed the entire ship
it's because the company that built the Hindenburg used hydrogen instead of helium as the lifting gas, hydrogen is a very dangerous gas because it is highly flammable, hence why the fire destroyed the Hindenburg so quickly. Before the Hindenburg was built, other rigid airships were built using helium as the main or only source of lifting gas, unlike hydrogen, helium is not flammable, so it is a much safer gas to use. But helium was also more expensive so the Hindenburg builders cut corners and used the much more dangerous hydrogen instead which was cheaper to produce. Once again another example of greedy companies putting profits before people's safety.
Back in my day we attribited these events to the gods. Kids these days and their "critical thinking"
What? Like, gods as in multiple gods?
@@AverageDoctor345 Yeah. You know zeus, hera, athena, apollo, ect.
@@sticks4632 Blimps didn't exist when those types of God's were popular.
@@AverageDoctor345 says you
Now we have commercial Boeing flights crashing straight into the ground from computer glitches and no one bats an eye.... They have been worse than this Hindenburg disaster, with hundreds of passengers dying instantly. And people talk about it for 2 days then forget...
I’m 😭
so was it flammable or not?
Definitely not flammable 😂
I've been to the site of the Hindenburg. My grandparents live near the army base, and it had a bowling arena
What a horrible thing to happen to those poor people ☹️
Amazing how we have such clean footage from 1937, yet even most UA-cam videos before 2012 or so looked way shittier than this.
where is the famous original live voice of the reporter`?
Contact WLS radio in Chicago. They have the "tapes" and played some during a 100th anniversary weekend in 2024. I can't recall his name, but the reporter was employed by WLS.
Is the film edited, you see it landing at one point and then the film jumps, and you see it burning?
It could just of been film being finicky
you can actually see the people running out, that's fucking crazy
The Hanger that belongs to this blimp just burned down today
Its insane to think how risky a hydrogen airship is. With no way to see weather it seems like lightening would also be a huge issue
Will R it’s floating in the air, therefore it is not grounded and it won’t be struck by lightning
@@topwatertremors895 that's wierd I have been on an airplane, in the sky that was hit by lightning, there have been a few crashes caused by lightening.
@@willr7849I don't know anything about airplanes, but I guess most of the fatal lightning crashes would be due to instrumentation malfunction rather than the lightning damaging the plane's structure itself
Where is the rest of the clip it just shows the Hindenburg and then all of a sudden on fire
"There was a big flash, a loud bang, and it caught fire from end to end, oh, the humanity....."
"Very interesting Ma'am, but we wanted you to tell us about how you survived the Titanic....."
For as horrific as this looks the survival rate was way better than that of a serious airline crash, where 90% or higher fatalities are normal.
I just got done watching a show called, "I Was There" on The History Channel and they discussed the Hindenburg disaster.
Holy shit they went through a lot of money and resources just to get an album cover that wouldn't be made until over 30 years later.