USA / TRANSPORT: Wreck of Airship “Roma“ at Norfolk (1922)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Wreck of Airship “Roma“ at Norfolk, USA Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: The Giant “Roma“ - once the world’s greatest semi-rigid dirigible. USA: Virginia: Norfolk: EXT GV pan along wreckage, (2 shots). TITLE: Now a twisted mass of blackened ruins after an explosion which cost the lives of 34 of her crew. GV crane raising up piece of wreckage, men standing by. GV man walking round bare bones of rudder. TITLE: The remains of the rudder - which failed to function. MV tilt down telegraph wire showing loose wires. TITLE: The high tension wires in which the Roma caught as it crashed to earth - the electric current setting the great gas bag afire CU Major Thurnell. TITLE: Major John G. Thurnell - among the dead. SV young sergeant Biedenbach standing by Army vehicle. TITLE: Sergeant Biedenbach one of the few survivors. LS pan