AUSTRIA: Piccard’s hydrogen balloon lands in Alpine village. (1931)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Hydrogen balloon, inside which Swiss inventor and explorer, August Piccard, webt 10 miles above earth, is salvaged high in the Austrian Alps. (On May 27, 1931, Piccard and Paul Kipfer became the first men to safely ascend into the stratosphere, riding in a pressurized gondola borne beneath a balloon designed by Piccard. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Get Piccard’s Balloon AUSTRIA: Obergurgl: EXT/SNOW ON GROUND Long view of village at bottom of Alps. Various shots of alpine soldiers at work salvaging hydrogen balloon bag Soldiers retrieving the gondola of the balloon (a metal globe) Soldiers rolling globe Equipment laid out on the snow, including oxygen tank Two men studying piece of equipment SLATE: Prof Piccard, bewildered by world’s acclaim of his “modest experiment“ is science’s new hero Auguste Piccard