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1937 Color Newsreel Complete Report: The Hindenburg Burning
1937-05-10 The Luftschiffbau Zeppelin 129 Hindenburg burning: unidentified color newsreel excerpt.
“Over the Fence” starring Harold Lloyd
The Glass Character makes it’s debut in “Over the Fence”, released on September 9, 1917.
1916
A truly remarkable animated short film made recently that depicts well the alternating boredom and terror of World War I trench warfare. The animator is a French film student. Not to be missed.
World War Two’s First 1,000 Bomber Raid
May 1942: The first thousand-bomber raid, the target was Cologne, Germany.1,047 Allied aircraft were dispatched, this number being made up as follows:1 Group – 156 Wellingtons3 Group – 134 Wellingtons, 88 Stirlings = 222 aircraft4 Group – 131 Halifaxes, 9 Wellingtons, 7 Whitleys = 147 aircraft5 Group – 73 Lancasters, 46 Manchesters, 34 Hampdens = 153 aircraft91 (O. T. U.) Group – 236 Wellingtons, 21 Whitleys = 257 aircraft 92 (O. T. U.) Group – 63 Wellingtons, 45 Hampdens = 108 aircraft Flying Training ,nd – 4 WellingtonsAircraft totals: 602 Wellingtons, 131 Halifaxes, 88 Stirlings, 79 Hampdens, 73 Lancasters, 46 Manchesters, 28 Whitleys = 1,047 aircraft
Hitler Youth Interviewed
Some Nazi newsreel footage from the closing weeks of the war in which fanatical Hitler Youth members talk about the roll they played in the destruction of several enemy tanks.
Hermann Goering
Color footage from a contemporary TV documentary concerning Hermann Goering: his ego, his accomplishments, his failings, his alliances, his excesses and his downfall.
Erich von Stroheim – “The Man You Loved to Hate”
A segment from a 1979 documentary by Patrick Montgomery. This small segment concerns von Stroheim’s first big break in Hollywood.
Eddie Rickenbacker: American “Ace of Aces”
Medal of Honor Citation: “Edward V. Rickenbacker, Colonel, specialist reserve, then first lieutenant, 94th Aero Squadron, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy near Billy, France, 25 September 1918. While on a voluntary patrol over the lines Lieutenant. Rickenbacker attacked seven enemy planes (five type Fokker protecting two type Halberstadt photographic planes). Disregarding the odds against him he dived on them and shot down one of the Fokkers out of control. He then attacked one of the Halberstadts and sent it down also…” Medal of Honor citation, awarded 6 November 1930.
The U.S. Government narrator erroneously states that America entered the war as a result of the 1915 sinking of the “Lusitania”, rather than the unrestricted U-Boat warfare policies of the German Navy.
Over the Fence starring Harold Lloyd
The Glass Character makes it’s debut in “Over the Fence”, released on September 9, 1917.