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TheGreatOneSea t1_jcqt3p9 wrote

Reply to comment by MississippiJoel in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

The Hindenburg's company was planning to use the footage for advertising.

As you can probably guess, it didn't quite work out for them...

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MississippiJoel t1_jcquqzw wrote

Well, that would explain the aerial chase footage. But what about the amature video? Was it just people that got their first cameras and were looking for any excuse to test it out?

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shantipole t1_jcrbjlw wrote

The ship itself was absolutely massive, and made for good footage.

In addition, the cost of passage was very high. Only the very wealthy could afford it, so there was a celebrity-watching aspect to it.

Finally, there were rumors that she was being used by the Nazis for spying and she was certainly being used for propaganda--any day now the US might have stopped allowing her to land at what was a Navy base, ending these flights maybe forever.

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