The Trail-Blazers
Six films of early exploration introduced from the Royal
Geographical Society by the pioneer polar explorer Duncan Carse.
4: Across the World by Zeppelin (1924)
Four times the Zeppelin circled the city, agleam in the sun like a cigar of silver. 'Gentlemen,' said her commander, 'we have achieved a world record - 5,000 miles of continuous flight in just 81 hours!'
A moment of triumph in the skies over New York on 15 October 1924.
But just how the first postwar German Zeppelin came to be built at all is an almost untold chapter in airship history. For at the end of the First World War Zeppelin building was banned, all airship sheds and gas plants were to be demolished ... This is the story of how a great 660-foot airship was eventually built, tested and flown non-stop from
Germany to America - a tale of outstanding aerial trail-blazing.
Narrator Blain Fairman Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON