NEW Hindenburg Disaster in Color

The original Hindenburg footage has been denoised, upscaled, colorized and frame interpolated to 60fps using artificial intelligence. Using a newer colorizer here, let me know what you think. Still trying to work out all of the reds.
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0:00 Introduction
0:04 Edited by EUGENE W. CASTLE
0:18 ALL THE WORLD ACCLAIMS
0:50 Germany's pride completes its first crossing to America.
1:12 Millions hail a new group of air
2:32 Ernst A. Lehmann, Captain
2:40 The giant mistress of the skies arrives in New York City.
3:12 Dusk - the Hindenburg nears its mooring mast.
3:26 Suddenly - the fatal moment!
4:03 A tragic blast heard 'round the world!
4:14 Rescuers rushed into this mass of twisted

[@jaybee9269]

It’s amazing so many people got off the airship safely…it doesn’t look like many would.

[@tn63jp]

3:43 The coloring of the explosion scene is especially realistic.

[@withjonadams]

It's crazy how they felt they had to end this newsreel on a positive note. Different time.

[@dokudicted]

my grand grand dad survived the crash, he was one of the technicians on the ship

[@therkler1704]

Wait really? That’s so fucking cool

[@monstermind9380]

Do SEROIUSLY believe in this shit?

[@byesillybillys]

I hope he was ok when he got out

[@antman2826]

I'd love to see some of the Gun Camera footage from WW2 get this treatment. Plane VS plane but also strafing runs too would look insane.

[@thejll]

I did not know the Hindenburg had windows right at the front, nor that you could climb out of them! Interesting.

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

Was disappointed that AI colourisation hadn't seemed to improve much until the shots of the crew. Damn it's getting good. Just needs more airship reference material lol

[@StephenLuke]

RIP To the 36 passengers and crew who were killed in the Hindenburg disaster

[@kool-aid5388]

When the color tries so hard not for it to be gray

[@Ob1sdarkside]

Looks like a more dignified exit than a Ryanair flight. When it didn't burst into flames, obviously

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

The AI kept coloring the Hindenburg red while it was flying because it wanted it to go faster.

[@bakedpagan4674]

solving all those stupid captchas for over a decade and that the best ai can do

[@dwightthreepersons8074]

Great effort. I really enjoyed the whole effort. Thank you.

[@mattkroening7964]

Still blows my mind that technology that's still very much in its infancy produces this good of results.

[@singleproppilot]

When you consider what the Hindenburg was made from, it's amazing it lasted as long as it did. People often focus on the folly of using hydrogen as the lifting gas, when in fact the Germans had no other choice. At the time, the only nation with a reserve of helium was the United States, which wasn't keen on providing any of it to the Nazi government. But the lesser-known fact is that the coating used to treat the fabric was an extremely flammable nitrocellulose dope. This wasn't unique to the Hindenburg or to airships. This was standard technology in airplanes as well, wherever a fabric covering was used to create a very lightweight structure and needed to be protected from the elements. This is one reason why aircraft of the teens and twenties were such death traps. Nitrocellulose burns furiously once ignited and is extremely hard to extinguish. They didn't have plastics or non-porous fabrics to work with. Less flammable butyrate dopes had not yet been invented. Cotton and nitrocellulose dope were the best materials they had. All aircraft build up static charges as they fly through the air because of the friction of the air moving over the skin. A flying machine as large as the Hindenburg is going to carry a tremendous static charge with it, which will be discharged at the first opportunity as soon as it finds a path to ground. Hindenberg's designers knew this and designed electrical resistance in to the mooring points where the lines attached. This was mostly intended as a safety measure for the ground crew so they wouldn't receive a huge electrical shock upon grabbing the mooring line at the end of a flight, but it also would have been critical for fire prevention. It seems likely that some part of this system failed and either got very hot or caught fire, igniting the nitrocellulose doped fabric. It would have had to burn through the outer skin and the gas bags in order to release the hydrogen. Once this happened the hydrogen burned rapidly and it was all over in mere seconds.

[@stargazerspark4499]

a bomb is the more likely culprit.

[@singleproppilot]

@@stargazerspark4499 My point is that the Hindenburg already WAS a bomb. All it needed was something to set it off. Static electricity was a potent source of ignition and there was plenty of it around a giant airship trying to land during an incoming storm.

[@iurimilder5650]

Oh, the humanity! - Herbert Morrison.

[@errhka]

The colors when the flames first erupt are a trip to watch

[@captainiceberg8637]

We need to bring back airships. They are just so f**king cool

[@snake1625b]

With new safety protocols I wish massive blimps would make a come back. Cruises in the sky!

[@MasterMayhem78]

This video should have a photosensitive seizure warning ⚠️

[@MECH-MASTER]

Interesting to see this in color. Thanks 👍

[@derAppelkuchen]

Damn even back then they had that RGB gamer light

[@nanoSam]

what we really need is the real sound of one of those airships

[@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751]

Man. I need some music for this . This video simply yearns for orchestral music

[@Alexander_Snowden]

it's amazing anybody survived

[@funnyusername8635]

One of the things that amazes me is if you look closely you can see people jumping from the craft and running from the flames.

[@tkrok]

it looks even more natural if you set playback speed at 0.75

[@krzysztofjagus7088]

Is that some kind of chameleon? This one ship had a lot of colors.

[@nickmudd]

The AI seems to have struggled with the color as much as my brain did watching this lol

[@GreatRetro]

How amazing is this that we have this on tape!

[@0_1_2]

Film*

[@KarstenJohansson]

It makes me wonder if they had some protection from lightning strikes, or if a simple storm could have inevitably caused the same thing to occur.

[@Bert4826]

While flying they weren't ground, so no worries while in the sky. But once grounded, it was a real fear. That had strict procedures about landing during storms. They did not follow them during the last Hindenburg flight, and landed in electrically charged weather. Once lines were dropped they were grounded, the leaking gas bag was ignited.

[@KarstenJohansson]

@@Bert4826 That's a good response. I was in a jet en route to Miami that got hit by lightning. It knocked out an engine, and we emergency landed in Ft. Meyer. But other than the sound and abrupt turbulence, and scary-ass impromptu demonstration about water procedures, nobody got electrically shocked.

[@KarstenJohansson]

The attendant literally said "Ladies and gentlemen. We are currently flying Northbound over the Gulf of Mexico. It's a good time to review our water landing procedures." We were originally southbound over the ocean, so the unannounced change of direction and destination was already "shocking" but we landed in For Meyer, surrounded by firetrucks before we were allowed to disembark. Scary as hell, but matches what you said since none of us got electrocuted and there was no explosions or fires or anything. Just a zapped engine.

[@KarstenJohansson]

Also was the first and only time a flight I've been on told us to close the window blinds before we landed. They shut the lights off and only the floor lights were on for the hour or so that passed before we landed and were allowed to exit. I still took a lot of flights after. This was totally frightening, but the reality is, it's the *only* scary thing that ever happened in all those flights. I've had more fright moments on the highway... all good.

[@singleproppilot]

@@KarstenJohansson There are good reasons for those instructions. They wanted the window shades closed in case the firefighters blasted the windows with foam. I have personally seen a firetruck force water in through the windows; closing the shades would prevent the passengers from getting wet. They shut down the power to keep from contaminating the auxiliary power unit with firefighting foam. But, they should have just popped the slides and let everyone off, either that or towed the airplane in to the gate. No reason to make everyone sit in the dark for hours.

[@grizzlydino]

It is cool that the time traveller recorded this video using modern technology but couldn’t they of just warned the people on board about it

[@roberthargraves1756]

What....

[@patrickbernier5495]

"all the world sorrows - but the pioneer spirit of the hindenburg must live on"....... it didn't. it became the blow that ended airships for commercial use

[@antman2826]

Yeah I'd suggest the AI could do with a little more coaching. The text panels would look much better if they were stabilised and also the colours are a bit schizophrenic. The speed was really good though. I'd love it if this could also be trained to correct for the "specks that tend to appear on some frames. That would be a bit step forward too.

[@nintendad2099]

Was this filmed with a GameBoy camera?

[@hrmalcon4115]

Que bonito me gustaría que en estos tiempos existiera ese tipo de transporte.

[@Dert26]

There was a new Hindenburg disaster? Since when?!

[@olcaybulut1501]

I hope you come back, you've been gone for 3 months ;(

[@TyCetto]

It was an insanely bad idea with all that hydrogen and all those possibilities of a small ignition... That was a flying disaster.

[@swaxtastic]

AI generated audio next!

[@MarkAndrachekJr]

I feel like maybe this should have a seizure warning.

[@wobert2485]

Oh the humanity!

[@Ashfielder]

Adolf and the Technicolor Zeppelin

[@dearbrad1996]

Oh the humanity! Oh well, never mind. Thanks Kent Brockman.

[@eleganthenryAR]

3:25 Suddenly - the fatal moment!

[@akshaygambhava2872]

Airships look amazing but it's too slow

[@budgetgamer1968]

I didn’t know it could change colors !!! 😏

[@fenix23]

Magnificent creature.

[@youtybePL]

Powiedzieć, że jest to w kolorze to mocna przesada. W kolorze to Samych Swoich zrobili, wygląda dużo lepiej. Bo nie wiem czy sterowiec był niebieski, czerwony, czy może różowy... Słabo

[@JimCorrigan777]

TIL the Hindenburg exploded like a Bob-omb

[@icantchangeskin8648]

You Died! Score: 0 Respawn Tittle screen

[@yzwme586]

Thank you aliens

[@echoohce1639]

Floating chameleon

[@rogerc7960]

The exact moment of ignition is missing, covering up death day weapons?

[@rumfordc]

LOL! well there was color alright

[@suddenwikholm668]

I rather like the original version.

[@adrianszalek1987]

The stories of swastika-marked machines do not end well... And that's good

[@Prus98]

2:16-2:19 gosciu z opaska (Z) = O

[@druidofthefang]

Something is wrong with the video.

[@Chris-pq3wp]

Based

[@dermensch2980]

That is one of the worst colorizing jobs I've ever seen.

[@neuralnetworksanddeeplearn8720]

thank you..

[@dermensch2980]

@@neuralnetworksanddeeplearn8720 Truth.

[@silverpslm]

Im going to assume the constant color changes was the chemical effect of the helium.

[@GregMatoga]

all that and still no narrator and sound effects, but the text board instead /jk

[@arturz493]

Na chui te napisy.

[@jazzo4003]

Im not the only person seeing the Nazi flags on the tail right?

[@yes-ni1od]

Sooo everyone is just going to ignore the fact a nazi blimp was flying over new york?

[@rumfordc]

everyone ignores that american banks funded nazis, and that the FBI kept hitler's file open for 40 years after this alleged death, who cares about a blimp?

[@refusefntk]

Because it's not a political organization like the SS or SD. Back then everything German got the state markings especially anything that could further the political aims of the Reich. It's not like the blimp captain was working pickup hours at the gas chambers. That being said, it is weird to see it, so I understand that.

[@bastardson7881]

The fact they didn't all die is a miracle HAIL VICTORY!!

[@mikethedrummersca]

They did die 😬

[@SiriusSRX]

Funny

[@apexkilla]

Awww poor elitist

[@JustinianPrvni]

That's a piss poor colorization job, you just ran it through that algorithm without any kind of adjustments or quality control, so it looks like a disco show.

[@samuelemmettbray]

Fail! Refine your algorithm more before posting seizue inducing content, please.

[@thedude4795]

oh my god im third to comment! also im offended at the historical pictures of a swastika (sarcasm)

[@ryanmccarthy7281]

You’re the dude who’s offended by his own shadow

[@eugenesesmaiii3278]

Bruh I'm offended they kept cropping it out of frame! lol like I wanna see the whole ship!

[@thedude4795]

@@ryanmccarthy7281 it's a meme.

[@ryanmccarthy7281]

@@thedude4795 got me lol its fucked that i cant even tell anymore..

[@rp4all584]

People have this weird fetish of riding on big bombs