Lowell Thomas writes about how Fox Movietone beat the other newsreels to get the Hindenburg story to the screen first as well as other Movietone escapades of the 1930s. Nobody had expected any excitement at Lakehurst N.J., on that tragic evening of May 6th, 1937. For the news gatherers the assignment wasn’t thrilling. As a […]

So I turned up at the Lodi Library for an event that was postponed (unbeknownst to me). Instead parking was at a premium because the twice annual Lodi Street Faire had taken over downtown. Well, dangit, now that I had the camera AND a parking place it seemed to make sense to take a stroll […]

Well I might as well come clean before Lenslinger and others do it for me. Yea I finished that darn book since I came across a treasure trove of material that I could use as well as finally deciding to cut it off at the start of World War Two instead of taking it into […]

Well I might as well come clean before Lenslinger and others do it for me. Yea I finished that darn book after three years since I came across a treasure trove of material that I could use as well as finally deciding to cut it off at the start of World War Two instead of […]

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow, one of the most infamous spot news stories of the 20th Century took place on a rainy airfield in New Jersey – the Hindenburg disaster. Cameramen Al Gold, Larry “Bouy” Kennedy, Deon de Titta, Jr., contact man Alexander A. Brown and soundman Addison Tice of Fox Movietone, News of the Day […]