This double album from U8 is one that was seemed to be on most second hand lists put out by dealers for next to nothing. This 30 minute cut down from the 125 minute feature has been done well and edits out all the padding, unfortunately, while this version moves quickly, its still all padding until the ending which we all know too well. Not a favourite of mine but i'm sure it has it's own fan base.
What it does have is a very good cast led by George C Scott and William Atherton who played the annoying reporter, Richard Thornburg in Die Hard.
Like many U8 films, the colour has now faded, the image is relatively sharp and the sound is very good.
With the help of wiki, here is a summary,
The Hindenburg is a 1975 American Technicolor disaster film based on the Hindenburg disaster. The film stars George C. Scott. It was produced and directed by Robert Wise, and was written by Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson and William Link, based on the 1972 book of the same name by Michael M. Mooney.
A highly speculative thriller, the film and the book it is based on depict a conspiracy involving sabotage, which leads to the destruction of the German airship Hindenburg. In reality, while the Zeppelins were certainly used as propaganda symbols by Nazi Germany, and anti-Nazi forces might have been motivated to sabotage them, the possibility of such an act was investigated at the time; ultimately, no firm evidence was uncovered to substantiate the theory. A. A. Hoehling, author of the 1962 book Who Destroyed the Hindenburg? Also about the sabotage theory, sued Mooney along with the film developers for copyright infringement as well as unfair competition. However, Judge Charles M. Metzner dismissed his allegations.
Filmed largely in color (with a mock newsreel presented in black-and-white at the beginning of the film), a portion of the film is presented in b/w, edited between portions of the historical Hindenburg newsreel footage shot on May 6, 1937.