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- A tribute to the Hindenburg and Albert Whitlock's matte painting visual effects in the 1975 Robert Wise film, which starred George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft.
From the new Blu Ray transfer. Although the transfer is overall good quality, it is lacking a bit in contrast and some flaws in the visual effects are more obvious. Some scenes have been altered slightly compared to my original upload.
Original upload here: • Video
I was obsessed with Zeppelins when I was a child for some reason. They sparked such imagination, such a sense of majesty. My mom and dad took me and my friend John to go see this film when I was in the 4th grade. I was mesmerized from first flicker to last. I was able to actually go see it twice. I just watched this movie this past weekend on BluRay, and it still held the awe that I felt when I was a kid. Fantastic sets, great special effects (for it's time) and a wonderful sense of wonder as she glides through the clouds. Anne Bancroft is without question a national treasure. GREAT movie if you want to see what it was like to travel in luxury and style during the "golden age" or airship travel. THANK YOU for putting this together.
I am amazed by your posting. I was about eight when I saw this movie. I was too young to understand the details of the plot, but I absolutely LOVED the beautiful Hindenburg, and afterwards for my whole life have had a love and fascination for it. I absolutely agree with you about Anne Bancroft. She is one of the few actresses who really had a screen presence and indescribable elegance. The movie magically transports us to a different time and place. David Shire's music score lovingly depicts this other world, of this magical cloud, known as the Hindenburg.
@@Sam_Lee_ Hi Sam! Thank you so much for the kind words. Glad you loved the film as much as I.
This song carries massive “Don’t be sad because it’s over, smile because it happened” vibes.
Always loved the closing shot of the Hindenburg disappearing into the clouds as if ascending to Zeppelin-heaven or something.
Shire's main score for this movie has many mysterious qualities and richness throughout. It certainly moves you as it portrays a tragedy. The music builds than retreats beautifully through the piece.
This one and John Barry's score in "Raise the Titanic" are two of my favorites.
Came here today to pay respects to Werner Gustav Doehner, who has died, according to his family, at the age of 90, at a hospital in Laconia, New Hampshire.
He was the last survivour of the disaster.
Rest In Peace, Herr Doehner.
OMG Did Werner die? I've seen many documentaries featuring him.
Tears in my eyes and my heart so broken with the gorgeous and very touching and sensitive score of David Shire to this wonderful and touching classic seventies movie about the sad and historic tragedy of the Hindenburg. 😭😍🤩👍
Always been a huge fan of the artistry of this film. A lot of the CGI artists who work today who are nothing more than "Code" writers and not artists would do well to watch films like this to see how it is done.
I was bursting into tears when it burst into flames
I saw this movie in the theatre when I was 7. My mother tells the story that she couldn’t believe I sat there and watched the whole movie and no fidgeting or complaining. I remember vividly people cheering when the dog lived on the died/survive montage at the end.
The launch sequence in this film is magical. As she slowly rises and the engines start. Great moment
I can't seem to not be mesmerized by rigid airships and their sheer size, luxury and the promise of moving palace-like ocean liners to air. Would be beautiful to casually see a 300+ metre long cigar shaped hotels slowly cross the sky above cities and dock to skysrapers' spires
What a wonderful theme song!! This should have won the oscar
The film did win special achievement Oscars (non-competitive) for sound effects editing and visual effects.
Released 45 years ago this year!
Love the visual effects shots in this film. They really bring the zeppelin back to life.
Absolutely state of the art for the time.
She was the largest flying object ever built, but her career was only 14 months.
Was fortunate to see this movie first run as a teenager. On a huge screen with the best sound at the time. I believe it may have been a 70 mm presentation. A few years later I went to the Smithsonian national air and Space museum in Washington DC and saw the Hindenburg filming model on display. Along with the full size replica of the control gondola. The model appeared to be about 16 feet long. About 1/50 scale. The model had a removable panel on one side for the motion control arm.
Majestic and beautiful comes to mind. What was can be again with passengers sightseeing through open windows or balconies amid the clouds simply watching the mountains of water vapor in the skies. It can be again.
So many have childhood memories of this. When I was small, we would visit my uncle and cousins in Redondo Beach, CA, and routinely we would see the Goodyear blimp fly over. The Goodyear airfield is about 2 miles away in nearby Gardena. Even that much smaller airship was beautiful flying overhead. Exciting and peaceful at the same time. I never tired of seeing that silver lady float over my head.
If it were safe, and you were in no hurry, it would be a wonderful way to travel.
And if you read Unbroken, the biography of Louis Zamperini, it talks about Louis as a child in Torrance, also right next to Redondo, seeing the Graf Zeppelin fly over and how beautiful it was to him. I guess Louis was one of us. haha
One of the best Intros ever!
A sadly underrated score. I remember seeing this movie with my dad, when it was a new release back in ‘75. Good times.
Great score, and perfect tribute. Thank you for sharing this of the Queen of the skies!!
I remember asking my mother to take me to see The Hindenburg she was amazed told me I must have an old soul in me I said leve me be with my old souls I feel comfortable with them I agree with all your comments I sat through that hole movie with awe and I tell you I had tears in my eyes I was ten I had the pleasure to see it opening day I still get emotional seeing it again and again Float on through the heavens beloved Hindenburg ❤😢❤
The shots of the Hindenburg in this film are just stunning and still look good today. They are the best special effects but don't look like special effects as her flying through the clouds looks real.
Thanks for the video! The movie is one of my alltime favourites.
That blew up the year before my car was built, kind of puts its age into perspective.
Amazing something so huge could only carry under 100 passengers. Must have been quite an experience to fly on it
Actually, the passenger capacity of the Hindenburg was only 50, but that's nothing compared to her precursor, the Graf Zeppelin. It carried only 20 passengers but is still the most successful zeppelin in history, carrying over 13,000 passengers and made almost 600 voyages by the end of her nearly 9-year career.
@@darthstarkiller1912 There were only 50 beds for passengers first. But they added cabins later, because they didn't get the helium and had to use hydrogen instead. Hydrogen gives more lift, so they could increase the passenger capacity to 72 beds.
@@darthstarkiller1912 And up to 61 crew members of course.
I saw this film when I was 10 and loved it. I wanted to see a Zeppelin, and was amazed that my mom saw the Hindenburg fly over NYC when she was 7! I now wonder how they filmed this without CGI. They cloud shots with shadows must have been especially hard.
It is not particularly hard. What you're seeing is just simply all done "Analogue" . The sky paintings are cranked past the camera on a special hand crank mount all done by hand. A few of the Zeppelin shots are simply the airship painted on glass and cranked the other direction so the ship appears to be drifting. Suddenly all of this 2d stuff feels very 3 dimensional. It is all comped into a back ground plate of people on the field looking up. When the ship drops "Water" on the ground crew it was actually sand dropped through the painted ship and shot in slow motion.
@@roquefortfiles Thanks for the description of the technique. It still sounds difficult to do well.
@@mheermance That's where the artistry comes in. Understanding the proper sky colour temperature the direction of the shadows etc. Oh, and CGI did not exist in 1974
@@mheermance The shot of it flying past lower Manhattan is absolutely fabulous. Albert Whitlock painted NY on a huge sheet of glass. The Zeppelin is painted on another sheet of glass careful attention to the lighting on it. The zeppelin is then hand cranked past NY. The film is then rolled back and separate exposures are done on smoke elements shot against black velvet the same thing done with the drifting clouds coming at the camera. Amazing work.
Wonderful tribute video! The movie was amazing. German airships are unbelievable engineering triumphs. No one did them better.
What a great job you did...love David Shires soundtrack
Probably Albert's best work!
great music
yes ;)
Titanic of the skies
Superb tribute to the grace and beauty of the great airships Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin.
A tragedy they were marked with the Nazi swastika.
I read Hugo Eckener staunchly opposed an initiative to rename one of the ships ‘Adolf Hitler’. I’d like to think that is true.
It True. LIke others, This movie opened me up to the zeppelin era. I was lucky to grow up miles from Hangar1 at Moffett Field, where the USS Macon called home. Visited there many times. Have so much memorabilla ive collected over the years.
Damn dust in the air…
This theme has 1 millilon stars for the graphics
She truly was “The Queen of the Skies “ beautiful majestic she was this music does her honor may your spirit sore the heavens we who dream will always remember you Gracious Queen of the Skies Luftschiff Hindenburg D L Z 129 May you rest in peace Herr Werner Gustav Doehner ❤😢❤
Too bad the Blu-Ray is Germany only so far. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
You can get in now here in the USA. Try Amazon.com. The blu-ray has NO bonus features, but it looks and sounds OK.
Se descubriò que provocò la explosiòn del heindinburg
The Hindenburg, because sometimes one swastika is simply not enough.
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