The Lost Zeppelin

The Lost Zeppelin (1929)

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Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.

Date of release
1929-12-19
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Adventure
Director
Edward Sloman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Lost Zeppelin is a 1929 American sound adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and produced and distributed by Tiffany-Stahl. The film stars Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli, and Ricardo Cortez.

Production

The stagey early part of The Lost Zeppelin was dominated by a banquet scene and actors engaged in dialogue from static positions. The early sound equipment was difficult to use, and actors often had to deliver lines "on their marks", afraid to even turn their heads and lose microphone coverage.

The zeppelin in The Lost Zeppelin is a combination of stock footage of flights, the use of miniatures, and a mockup of the gondola. Although the special effects were satisfactory for the era, aviation film historian James H. Farmer in Celluloid Wings: The Impact of Movies on Aviation (1984) considered The Lost Zeppelin had "disappointing special effects and triangular plot."

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