Nearly 80 years ago, there were blimp videos, too.

But they weren’t cutesy funny clips of a big white marshmallowy dirigible slowly skulking away from the smiling Northeast. No way.

Rather, they showed a Nazi blimp — a “zeppelin” to be exact — filled with hydrogen (not the smartest idea) bursting into flames while attempting to dock at a United States naval air station in a sleepy town near the Atlantic Ocean in New Jersey.

The Hindenburg. The German passenger airship that killed 35 on the night of May 6, 1937 and caught the world’s attention, essentially single-handily putting an end to the “airship era”.

Here’s original footage of the disaster from 78 years ago: