America Airship Flight (1924)

Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States of America, . Title: “ZR-3 crosses Atlantic in non-stop flight! Mammoth Zeppelin soars from Germany to America, 4000 miles in three days - the greatest flight ever made in aviation history“. Intertitle: “Its silvery form gleaming in the morning sun, the ZR-3 hovers over New York Bay and ...“ (end of title obscured by timecode) Intertitle: “This epoch-making flight began in Friedrichshafen, where the dirigible was made for America“. L/S of an airship slowly moving out of an aircraft hangar. Intertitle: “Pathe News films of the ZR-3 taken at Friedrichshafen, were brought to America aboard the dirigible itself!“ L/S of the airship inside the aircraft hangar, a man is climbing into the cabin beneath the ship, the cabin is being held steady by a gang of men. L/S of the airship taking off. L/S of a crowd outside an aircraft hangar watching the launch. Intertitle: “Scenes taken aboard the ZR-3 during its flight across the Atlantic ...“ Various aer