Flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 in Color! [AI enhanced & colorized]
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- Flight of the Graf Zeppelin from San Francisco via Lakehurst (New Jersey) back to Germany in 1928 [HD]. The director of the Zeppelin company, Hugo Eckner, can be seen in various shots as well as US president Herbert Hoover. A number of landings were filmed and the welcome that the crew received on return in Germany after 68 days. In view of the fact that Herbert Hoover became president in 1929 and the first flight of the LZ127 was on 18 september 1928, most of the film was probably shot in 1929 (not 1928 as the source indicates).
Remarkable is the scene with Captain Ernst Lehmann desparately in need of a cigarette which he happily smokes once safely on the ground. Ernst Lehmann was born on May 12, 1886 at Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
This originally Black & White film was first enhanced by special software whereby the motion was stabilized, the speed corrected and the picture quality improved. Thereafter it was colorized with the great DeOldify software by Jason Antic
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5:07 My favourite part was seeing the captain and another crew member light up their cigarettes, next to 3.7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen gas. Geniuses.
Don't forget the "Blau Gas", which is more dangerous than hydrogen, as it weighs the same as air, whereas hydrogen immedictely goes up into the atmosphere..:P
Still to this day nothing has ever been so large and silent in the skies. I was in Germany in 1975 and stayed in I think it is Freidrikshaufen on the shore of this huge beautiful lake named Boden Zee (I'm bad about the spelling.) I stayed in the youth hostel and they had very nice pictures I think of Graf Zepplin as that is where it was made. Boden Zee is amazing as it is such a pure lake of crystal clear water and bordered by several countries. I met a very nice Swiss girl who was riding her bicycle all the way around the lake. She rode a simple bike with no special attachments and had hardly any baggage. She dressed even in a longer skirt, like she was on her way to shop or school. On her journey I think she always stayed in Youth Hostels. What intrigued me about Europe was when I met people like her, a real individual of a different mindset with a profound way of seeing the world making me wonder what might it be that was uniquely significant in life to her. She was so simple, so happy with the moment. I sensed a profound resonance, one in tune with her own kind of music. Did you know Boden Zee even has it's own climate and an island where they have animals from around the world and exotic plants all possible because the vastly deep waters even in winter keep it warm? In a way she was not so unlike that island so grand in the sunlit waters, and so vastly deep, a sparkling shining gem simply, silently... one too of a grand and giant illusion.
Actually the Hindenburg was larger
thank you for this pure story! i'll be soon moving to the Bodensee and i absolutely looking forward living there
@@martinschiller667 Hi Martin! Thank your for your encouragement. I'd forgotten I'd written that until your reply! You spell it right ha! I loved it there and you have such an idyllic place to live! The water is so amazingly clear! Now 46 years later with your reply I had a fleeting thought about what if I would have asked that girl if it was okay I ride bike with her the rest of the way. I'm sure she would have said yes. I could have bought a cheap used bike somewhere and figured out how to tie my backpack on it. It would have been a trip I would always cherish, but such is life and the way of the winds of destiny. You're in for one grand time with Bodensee, a true natural wonder! I loved Europe, a place where one can go anywhere and find new discoveries.
My great-uncle was let out of grade school with his classmates to go watch the Graf Zeppelin depart from Mines Field in Los Angeles (future LA International). He recalls that the ship needed a takeoff run that took the length of the field in which the tail fin “barely” cleared some power lines at the edge. This was due (he was told) to the California coastal weather: cool temperature close to the ground due to an “inversion layer” reduced the lift from the gas cells, so the crew apparently relied on some aerodynamic lift from the ship’s large hull being powered through the air.
Ahhh..the music from the 1971 movie,"Zeppelin," nice! One of my favorite movies.
Amazing. The Colorizing really brings the Graf Zeppelin back to life!
Yeah isn’t it he? It’s amezing what ai colorizing could do with old B&W footage, it’s like going back in time.
I wish they would bring the old zeps back. I wanna see the size of these ships for myself.
Nice blending of Roy Budd's Zeppelin soundtrack with this awesome footage -- This one's a keeper!! Two thumbs way up!!!
Outta sight! Love it! One of my favorite movies!
Surprisingly cinematic camera work, editing and storyboarding for what is essentially a documentary - credit to the film crew for setting up some wonderfully dramatic shots. Intriguing to read in the comments that there could have been sound, but given we're one year into the talkie era the entire story is wonderfully conveyed in the silent tradition.
Such wondrous shots of the past. Thank you.
Great video. Airships are fascinating and slightly terrifying things!
very special, thanks for sharing 👍
This music says someone is about to die in a Quinten Tarantino movie.
No it is from the film "Zeppelin" from 1974 with Michael York in the lead
Meesterwerkje weer!
My favorite video! Never get tired of it. Nice! Watching it now.
Great! I'm pleased you still enjoy it.
masterpiece!
Very spectacular video 📹 congratulations 🎊!!! 😊
Watching this makes me wish that some day, people will come up with a way of safely building these things and providing rides on them that hark back the past, similar to train rides like the Orient Express.
it would be nice to see such unique way of air travel again
We still have them and they have a perfect safety record. Google "Zeppelin NT". It may not be as big, but they do fly in germany daily.
Look for Ocean Sky Cruises and the Airlander 10.
@@wasweiich9991 well i dont know about that, they dont show up on flightradar24
@@dreamthedream8929 Just like many planes do not show up on it. They also fly when weather is acceptable and only to certain hours.
the ability of man to conceptualize and create such machines is amazing,they say it was the US that was holding back on the helium so that's why the germans used hydrogen
Faszinierende Aufnahmen! Vielen Dank!
would LOVE to see a modern day version this big built again!
But with Helium this time.
Doesn't Goodyear have one of these operational ?
@@tuttt99 Helium was a terrible lifting gas other than not being flammable. None of those giant rigid airships (the R34; the LZ 126 the LZ 127, or the LZ 128) could have crossed the Atlantic if they were inflated with helium.
@@HoaxKAMEPAHugo Eckener originally intended to have the Hindenburg filled with helium. That's why it was so big.
@@HoaxKAMEPAalso the US navy had 4 helium filled rigid airships.
It's still hard to believe they ever existed!!!!
Rigid zeppelin international passenger travel once dominated the skies from the 1900s to the 1930s. The largest ones ever built were the lz127 Graf and the lz129 Hindenburg (the Hindenburg blew up in 1937 which marked the permanent end of the dirigible era)
@@khalilrichardson491And the Hindenburg's sister ship the Graf Zeppelin II LZ-130.
@@khalilrichardson491 it blew up due to having to switch over to a more combustible gas
Thank.you for the wonderful job 🌹💞👍
Ditto! I watch this video to death! Lol!
Amazing footage! How ineffective the size/passenger count ratio was. Such an enormous vehicle yet so slow and only so few people it could transport. Still at that time a marvel of invention and technological advancement.
But they could travel in luxury and comfort, not like on todays planes.
@@harvey2081 And with a better chance at countryside scenery and such..
@@zuutlmna exactly
@@harvey2081 Yes. Today they would compete against cruise ships, not planes.
@@kristiankoski3908 Yea, a week of luxury in the sky with a few stop offs.
Was für tolle Erungenschaften ihrer Zeit. Sehr beeindruckend. Alle freuen sich!
Great!
Awesome.
Glad you think so!
That hangar is huge :O
There are 2 airship hangers left in the UK. They are used as film sets. One was used for filming of Squid games.
Herr Eckner looks absolutely drained after that flight.
He was ready for ze zigarette.
No tarmac? Just dirt field. Cigarettes and open flames from match. Likely cigarette addiction implying dude had a smoke every 3 hours
Wow, this is great stuff! I don't know where you are getting this football but keep it coming. By the way Lehman (pictured at the end of this film), was pro-Nazi and the party chose him to replace Eckener, to captain the Hindenburg. He perished in the Hindenburg accident.
Lehmann is widely regarded as Nazi in public and the media. But there is no evidence b'cause he's never been member of the NSDAP. Yes, he pleaded for the use of the ship for propaganda purposes. But to be honest, just with great support by nazi officials the entire airship business had a real chance to acclimate under economic point of views. Anti-Nazi Eckener could have ended the airship industry just before the Hindenburg took off . which was btw financed by nazi administrations
From the locations (Tokyo - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Lakehurst - Germany), this pretty much has to be the last part of the 1929 round-the-world flight and the return home.
The airship can carry 20 passengers, have 30 pilots, and 200 ground crew to pull it into the parking lot.
Yeah, ain't it cool!
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Qué belleza!
Quite wonderful. A minor correction, though - LZ-127's name should be in red, not black.
There are many more colorization errors. The DeOldify software at present is far from perfect, but getting better all the time. I am hoping Jason Antic will add the possibilty to input original colour photos that the software can use as a reference. Unfortunately he seems to have sold his colorization work exclusively to MyHeritage, What a pity!
Grandiosa, colosal aeronave y genial video; los zeppelines eran tecnología de punta en esa época, eran máquinas perfeccionadas al extremo, verdaderos transatlánticos aéreos, una maravilla.
Y fumando el Capitán 💥💥💥💥
excellent film-- I think this must be from the spring/early summer of 1929-- Hoover was elected in Nov., 1928 but his inauguration wasn't until March of 1929
No mishaps for it's entire life. The ONLY way to fly!
@@jimcrawford5039 Almost like a car full of gasoline!
1928!! Beeindruckende deutsche Technik!!
the bit at 4.33 when they descend out of what's been styled to look like a cottage...
Have to say that this is some amazing footage of what is probably the most successful passenger airships in history (then again that’s not exactly an achievement considering the next most successful is probably Hindenburg, which only lasted 1 season before going up in flames, but wow Graf Zeppelin excelled in comparison)
it was a successful passenger airship
The scariest and coolest way to travel, i guess...
It whould not be scary, it whould even be safer that a plane.
@@timcarrilee Well not necessarily, hydrogen gas is dangerously explosive. But in 1928, it could well have been much safer than a heavier than air plane as they were notoriously dangerous at first. Zeppelins got a reputation of being far more dangerous than planes simply because they carried more people, and were so much larger. The loss of a zeppelin was a much larger event than the loss of a plane, zeppelins were much more expensive and carried like 60 people, planes could only carry around 10-20, getting to 30-40 in the 1930s.
Alemanha e suas majestades
World without plastic anything. Likely more pollution but fewer people. Nostalgia for era when many things were not better but still interesting to see the past. Thanks!
Probably less pollution because the population was much smaller and there were not billions of internal combustion engines belching exhaust fumes into the atmosphere.
Bakelite, since 1907. First synthetic plastic.
@@ommadammo Yes. Pretty sure the Graf Zeppelin had some plastic parts.
Certainly more pollution, as petrol (gas) and even Diesel are much cleaner than the era's ubiquitous steam engines. Smoke-stack industries were just that, not using clean electricity. Even in the 1960s, when I grew up, one could climb any hill to ascend from barely breathable urban air and look down on quite small towns permanently engulfed in smog. Domestic heating used dirtier fuel and there were still plenty of beasts of burden, making today's dog mess problem look benign. The few cars were run without regard to the dirt they put into the atmosphere, so that in total even they were probably worse than the much larger number today.
And then, almost all men and many women smoked, as if they just found the air still not dirty enough!
But they are still interesting to look at.
Some of these reels had sound, you can see the light-sound track along the side.
Indeed, but unfortunately it is now impossible to retrieve the audio. For that the original film would be needed with a projector that can read the optical soundtrack.
@@Rick88888888 not true. The audio could be extracted via software. We have done this with some of the earliest recordings in history, ones that had previously no method to playback. In likely better quality than any projector with a photo tube could ever provide.
@@canadianman000 OK, but you would need special software, I think. Maybe you can try to extract this audio track?
@@Rick88888888I would attempt it if I had the raw files
@@canadianman000 I don't have them either. Also my footage has been motion-stabilized therefore the edges of the soundtrack have been cut away. Pity!
Wonderful! As you added the music, it can't be original sound. But there is often something visible at the left, looking like some kind of sound-track. Is is something else? Doesn't it work, so that original sound couldn't be used?
"The first cigarette"! If a man can spend 68 days even closer to hydrogen and sensibly not smoke, surely he can't be addicted. So what's the hurry lighting up as soon as he could? Weird - but we'll never know!
An optical soundtrack is of no use once a film has been digitized without adding the soundtrack. To retrieve the sound, the original film will need to be re-scanned with equipment that can process the optical soundtrack. No idea who still has the original film (or a good copy).
@@Rick88888888 So it is there, but it doesn't work because of what is essentially an outdated format! Thanks for explaining this.
These ships had a smoking room which was specifically set up to minimize fire risk. The crew didn't quit smoking during their flights...just that it was limited to that one room.
@@queenbunnyfoofoo6112 Thanks for pointing that out! It's most interesting.
Coming to think of it, in those days most multi-millionaires wouldn't have put up with having to spend a few days without puffing big cigars, so on account of the passengers a smoking room would presumably have been indispensable.
What a mad era (though admittedly our own is even crazier …)!
@@peterjansen7929 That Era is definately fascinating. I just found these videos.. very .interesting channel!
That music is from the 1971 movie Zeppelin. :)
Indeed
Is there sound the left of some of the clips ?
Indeed, it's an opttical sound track, but unplayable without the original film
Herbert Hoover did not become president until 1929. He was running for the presidency in 1928 against Al Smith.
Dang scary to see this in flight over a city. I cant imagine the loss of life if one had blown up inside a hanger.
These things just look like they will blow up!
They rarely did...
Sorry for asking this, is hindenburg and zeppelins same?
Graf Zeppelin was the inventor of these derigibles. One Zeppelin was named after him and another after Paul von Hindenburg (a German Field marchall and later Reichs President).
@@Rick88888888 Two zeppelins were named after him actually
@@grg-productions And an unfinished aircraft carrier
The Hindenburg was a special type of airship that was called a zeppelin (rigids that maintained their outer structure even when the inner gas cells were deflated). They received their name after the inventor of the idea, count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. The other well known type is, of course, the blimp. They do not have a permanent, internal structure inside the main gas envelope.
It's Lakehurst, not Lake Hurst and it's in New Jersey, not New York
Yeah you tell those dead Germans!
The Germans got it right! The text above doesn't.
No it's See Hurst and Neu York. It's a matter of point of view.
It has been corrected a month ago, so please stop this nitpicking and moaning
Η απόλυτη λύση για τη μαζική μετακίνηση από και προς τα ελληνικά νησιά. Μηδενικά καύσιμα, μεγάλη μετακίνηση πληθυσμιακών ομάδων, πολύ υψηλότερες ταχύτητες από τα πλοία, χαμηλές ανάγκες σε υποδομές (αεροπλοιοδρόμια)...
Against Climachange was this a good way to travel with Solarzells on the rof of the Ship but not this exploive Gas please ...
Немцы все же великая нация! Die Deutschen sind immer noch eine tolle Nation!
Do you think i have seen a blimp ?
It was a sphere around 5 meters and no cord or any moving part on it.
Just a smooth and clean sphere going horizontal and around 300 meter above the ground....
Yeah that's just a type of balloon, neither a blimp nor a rigid airship like the LZ-127 (Blimps and Zeppelins are two different things), but it's similar as it's still a lighter-than-air object.
well if its a sphere then its a hot air balloon
@@spooqus6541 it was something else just a giant ping pong ball going (with no seems at all) and following a perfect horizontal line...
@@yoan4152 Then idk, maybe a secret government project?
@@spooqus6541 Just above a town at an altitude about 300 meter... but yes it was something different i've never seen
Where's the music from?
From the movie, "Zeppelin," with Michael York and Elke Sommer back in 1971. One of my favorite movies.
From the movie, "Zeppelin," with Michael York and Elke Sommer back in 1971. One of my favorite movies.
Someone’s seen the movie Zeppelin lol
Yup.
The beginning says, from Tokio to San Francisco in 2 days! As if it’s super fast
It was 1928 probably fast
It was very fast in 1928, heavier than air flight was becoming more common and could fly faster, but even when flying at up to double the speed in ideal conditions, the Graf Zeppelin could travel much further than any other plane in one go, heavier than air flight would need to stop and refuel every few hours, which could take a long time, and a journey that far would require countless refuelling stops and couldn’t take a direct route because refuelling at sea wasn’t possible yet. It would be a lot more hassle to fly heavier than air, and a lot less safe, if it were even possible at all to travel from Tokyo to Sam Francisco. Most people would need to travel by steamship instead, which could take days or even weeks in some cases.
For a zeppelin is amazing I had in mind many more days
Was there only germans who built Zeppelins?
Invented and patented in Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101 this is a British one I found googling a few minutes. I knew the US navy used to have one for test purposes, but apparantly that was made in Germany too xD.
The R101 was of very poor design, according to experts. It dramatically crashed and killed 48 people on its maiden flight to France. Not Britains finest hour...
In America the Navy used a German built Zeppelin, the LZ-126. Rechristened the "Las Angeles" by the U.S Navy. The U.S. Navy also built 2 American Airships(Zeppelin), the " U.S.S. Akron" and a sister ship "U.S.S. Macon". The British had 2 as well. The "R100" and the "R101". Hope that helps.
Remember that the word 'zeppelin' refers to a specific type of airship which was invented by a German engineer named Ferdinand Von Zeppelin. He also created the Zeppelin Company, which is still around today (sort of), all though they mostly just build advertising airships.
The Americans used over a 100 Airships during the second World War, e.g. to guard convoys heading to GB. As much as it hurts for me as a german, the Americans were the masters of Airship-building, though the sheer size of Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin were never superseded.
Nice final frame with Klaus Dipscheisse dragon exhaling
Is it really necessary to abuse the name of Captain Ernst Lehmann and call him a "dipshit" in German ??!
Bonjour du Canada It's a beautiful machine but just one match and goodbye
alll this hydrogen
LOL was hat Franz mit San Francisco zu tun 😅
👍🇸🇪
Upa
Whats with the 60's western movie music?
Wrong, it's from the film "Zeppelin" with Michae York
It was all going well until the captain at the end lit his cigarette...bye bye zeppelin...
格好いい
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poor Germany now, para lo q quedó Alemania, para vender cajas de zapatos chinos
Volveré y seré millones.
Hate the music.
Well I love the music.
It's the theme from the film "Zeppelin" made in 1970 and a classic. You totally missed that connection.
It's Litterially just a massive flying dong
Way cool. 😇👑🌏🌎🌍💚@undwallace