Mysteries in the Archives: 1937 Crash of the Hindenburg

200726 min 1 secFilm: Documentaire

Réalisation: 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!

Catégories de sujets


  • Transports > Aéronautique et Aérospatiale
  • Histoire > Réflexion sur l'histoireHistoire mondiale

Générique


idée
Serge Viallet
Cédric Lépée
direction de collection
Serge Viallet
réalisateur
Serge Viallet
monteur
Alexandre Auque
assistant monteur
Vanessa Bozza
réalisation graphique
Stéphanie Mée
illustration musicale
Niels Poux
conception générique collection
Philippe Truffault
réalisation générique collection
Philippe Truffault
montage générique collecition
François Labat
traducteur
Dana Burns Westberg
narrateur
Dana Burns Westberg
documentaliste
Michael Dolan
conception sonore
Laurent Thomas
Jean-François Gasnier
correction des couleurs
Rémi Berge
gérant de production
Thierry Ippolito
assistant de production
Vincent Encontre
Armelle Jayet
directeur documentaire
Elisabeth Hulten
administrateur
Yasmine Boucherat
producteur
Florence Fanelli