News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

415A

Date Released

20 May 1937

Date submitted

15 May 1937

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Disaster: Described by Ivan Scott
• 2. Reports: King of Denmark’s Silver Jubilee
• 3. Reports: Whitsun Holiday
• 4. Reports: Thames Collision
• 5. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Motor Racing at Brooklands
• 6. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Athletics - The British Games at White City
• 7. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Racing - The Kentucky Derby
• 8. Coronation

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hindenburg’s Fate Adds Another Victim to Toll of Airships. DESCRIPTION: Hindenburg’s fate adds another victim to toll of airships. The doom of the great Zeppelin which has been graphically told in newspapers, was shot in full by a newsreel camera. We issue it as news, and with sympathy for those involved or bereaved by the calamity. SHOTLIST: Scenes of the airship in flight. Shots of the ship in the air on fire and falling to earth. Scenes after the fire. Skeleton of same on ground. Hindenburg Disaster

Keywords

Aviation; Aircraft; Accidents and disasters

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

5366

Credits:

Commentator

Ivan Scott

Length of story (in feet)

97

Story extras:

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