The strange story behind the mashup video “Zeppelin vs.
Pterodactyls (1936)” entertains and inspires me. Rob Northrup
created the video in response to a poster for a never-made film
that he may have seen for the first time on an aviation history
blog. In mid 2007 Brett Holman, an Australian aviation history
buff, saw a poster that Hammer Films made in the early 70s to
attract investors to a high concept film "Zeppelin vs.
Pterodactyls." The film was never made, but the poster intrigued
Holman. He searched for more information on the unproduced film
project and found a very brief plot summary posted by Chas
Lindsay in the forum Mobius. According to Lindsay's summary, in
the film story a zeppelin on a bombing mission to London
encounters a storm, goes off course, and reaches an unknown land
where prehistoric animals have survived. On 25 May 2007 Holman
wrote about this poster and a few snippets of film lore in his
blog Airminded. The Brummel, a commenter on the post in
Airminded, remarked: Somebody needs to mak