Lost Zeppelin (1929)

The marvelous miniature effects from the early talkie Lost Zeppelin, set to James Horner's "The Zeppelin".
Get the story behind this movie at http://www.bluespill.com/?p=22

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• zeppelin
• dirigible
• blimp
• airship
• animation
• effects
• sfx
• miniature
• talkie

[Themaniacnextdoor]

@Hell5x5x2 Haven't watched either. Most m,ovie now just use CG though, ignoring the fact that practical effects and most otehr techniques look SO much better.

[Hell5x5x2]

Old movies feels like we are really inside a new world

[Hell5x5x2]

@Themaniacnextdoor who said minature art is lost it is still done ....like Dark Knight,Shutter Island

[Themaniacnextdoor]

They simply knew how to do minatures and such back in te day. it's really a lost art, same with stop motion. If you told a modern day special FX guy to make a stop motion animal look real, they couldn't do it.

[AlecCorday]

Just waiting for the Rocketeer to zoom by. You got the music already....

[Commiton]

That must have thrilled the adventure fans at the nickle theater.

[raymondleeleggs]

good special effects for an old movie

[PahangDragonbird]

yes this movie is loosely based on the crash of the Italia

[PahangDragonbird]

This is a Semi-Rigid airship, which has a non rigid envelope with a rigid keel.

[BlackMariaDownUnder]

A Dirigible is a Zeppilin !! Both are airships with an internal frame structure with lift provided by multiple gas bag cells, while a Blimp has just the one gasbag integral with the external envelope.