The Lost Zeppelin

The Lost Zeppelin is a 1929 sound adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and produced and distributed by Tiffany-Stahl.

uncredited 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.

"[7] Mordaunt Hall in his review for The New York Times gave a mostly negative review of The Lost Zeppelin, "Presumably the producers of "The Lost Zeppelin," an audible pictorial melodrama now at the Gaiety, do not believe in a very high order of intelligence among cinema audiences, for the best that can be said of the film is that it appears to have been fashioned with a view to appealing to boys from 8 to 10 years of age.

Several such youngsters were at the first showing of this offering last Saturday afternoon, and they became volubly enthusiastic over the Antarctic blizzard, the far from impressive airship, the artificial ice fields and the clumsily designed chain of incidents.