Summary

Airships at Cardington, UK, 1930

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 1308
Clip SR003793_08_01mov
Date 01/01/1930
Title Airships at Cardington, UK, 1930
Description Title card: Drama has touched the history of the air with stories of disasters overwhelming its great liners / The airship R-33 approaches with a damaged bow / dark intertitle: The Shenandoah - proud 'Daughter of the stars' - whose last voyage ended in tragedy / VS an aerial view of scores of people on the ground at the crash site; the tail and fins of the craft and a closer look at the damage / R-100 at its mooring tower with people walking to it / Two officers chatting and people at microphones in semi-darkness / The huge R-101 rises from its mooring / it flies above / Note: exact month/day not known
Country United Kingdom
City Cardington

Keywords

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airships
destruction
mooring masts
flying
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crowds
excitement
R101
R33 airship
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