NEW Hindenburg over Hartford, Connecticut 1936 never before seen

Film of the Hindenburg flying low over Hartford, Connecticut, in October 1936. Seems to be filmed from the roof of one of the Travelers Insurance co's buildings. Visible is Travelers tower building and the now-gone WTIC radio tower. At the very end of the clip is footage of several people on the roof of the building that is on the corner of Central Row and Main Street in Hartford (imagine today workers going onto the roof of a building like that!). I bought this original reel of Kodak film via an online auction a few years ago and didn't know what it was until I brought it to a video conversion place to have it copied to a DVD. The auction had it labeled as "Zeppelin over Hartford, CT 1936" but I had no idea it was the Hindenburg until I saw the actual film. Pretty good quality for the age. You can clearly read "Hindenburg", the ship's numbering, and see the Olympic rings. Spooky. So I'm pretty sure no one has ever widely seen this footage before.

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Education

Tags:

• Hindenburg
• Hartford
• Connecticut
• airship
• zeppelin
• never
• before
• seen

[s235343]

It wasn't until John Rowland showed up that that amount of hot gas was matched.

[bbayhylle]

Cool

[Thunderbold0123]

Thanks for uploading this rare LZ129 clip.