PICTURES OF GRAF ZEPPELIN
In order to film the arrival in America of the Graf Zeppelin after its Atlantic flight, four Paramount cameramen were assigned to the Lakehurst hangar, with two airplanes in readiness. Six others were stationed at strategic points round New York, with two seaplanes and one amphibian also in readiness. When the Zeppelin was reported in distress off Bermuda, radios to a branch office had a cameraman with a fast plane on the Atlanta airdrome in less than three-quarters of an hour, ready to strike for either Charleston or Florida in case of disaster to the Zeppelin. Eventually the dirigible was picked up at Washington, and was followed thence to New York. The Washington motion pictures actually reached New York before the airship. They were then rushed to the laboratories, developed, printed and released for screening.
Ivor Novello will play the lead in It ider Haggard’s ‘'The Brethren” when that tale is produced by Gainsborough Pictures, Ltd., of London.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 13
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