@@woodstocknun Don't be so flippant. There's more to it than that. This event triggered a massive collective psychological response in the West that suddenly wasn't so sure of it's imperviability anymore. The Titanic was the BEST we could do at he very apex of our drive for civilizational superiority in the universe, and yet it wasn't good enough. It is no exaggeration that this disaster unleashed a collective unconscious sense of foreboding and even morbidity that contributed to the willingness, you might say, to unleash the First World War.
@@Daniel-nb3kk In a sense. Much like 9/11. Although unlike the Titanic disaster, that was largely brought on by themselves - or, I should say specifically, by the foreign policies of their own leaders.
Fascinating footage. The recent implosion of the submersible has reignited interest in this historical event. History is a subject that many of us did not like in high school, but find out how important it is later in life
Studying history is incredibly important. There are so many parallels between the loss of the Titan and the Titanic. James Cameron said it best, ‘Now there are 2 wrecks for the same reason.’ Paraphrased.😓🙏🏻
In 2000 I took a trip up the east coast of Canada and visited the graves from the Titanic disaster. Most of the markers only have numbers on them because they were never identified, yet, even after all these years, there are people using DNA to help identify them. When someone is identified, they add their name to the marker. It has been decades since my visit there and I wish I could visit again, but I'm too old to make the trip. That place reminds us that if you get to be as old as I am, you are one of the lucky ones.
I often have to visit Southampton old cemetery in England, i work for the War graves commission. Inside the cemetery there are lots of blue markers to the graves of Titanic survivors, and people that were brought back. Most of the crew actually came from Southampton.
@@dotdots2660 No it isn't. Just look at the bridge, the wings extend further out than those on the Olympic, one of the distinguishing features of Titanic. On some better quality versions of this footage you can even see the name Titanic on the hull. They fitted the signature A-deck outer plating after this footage was taken, at the same time the funnels were painted (in this clip you can see they are bare metal, the ship was not completely finished at this point).
That’s Captain Smith at 0.45 but not on the Titanic. He is wearing his summer uniform that he sadly never got to wear on the Titanic. That is footage from when he was commander of the Olympic.
Yep yep, this is the Olympic. I'm no in-depth expert but fairly sure there is NO extant film footage of the Titanic manned and going out to sea - or being boarded in port. Titanic aficionados often confuse footage of the Olympic with the iconic liner.
@@louise_rose This is the Titanic, only the scene with the captain was shot on Olympic. The reason why many get confused over this footage is because the outer plating was not yet installed on the A-deck promenade. You can still see other signs of Titanic being incomplete, for example the funnels are unpainted in the video.
Part of me feels that it was actually the Olympic that went down. Something about the ships names being changed and that there was so many important people on board who definitely weren’t welcome in New York. And there’s the insurance payout.
@@ange1098 "Part of me feels that it was actually the Olympic that went down." Part of me feels you need to educate yourself more on the subject matter. STILL believing this stupid conspiracy theory after it has been debunked for decades does not exactly speak for you. You can do better.
As someone from Belfast I'm proud of her history with the Titanic. Our city built a building in 2012 on the 100 year anniversary and the building is the exact same size as the Titanic when she was in the water. It's breathtaking just considering how big she truly was and how massive the iceberg must have been when she struck it. God bless to all on board.
@@wsc3able I recognized it right away. This is "Fratres" by late 20th Century composer Arvo Part. Normally it's either violin and piano or for an ensemble of cellos, so this sounds like a variation on the violin and piano version. Here's a link to a section that aligns to this video's music. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hRqRgoYppBw.html
RMS Carpathia effort is underated. The captain and crew flew thought the night risking colliding themselves with ice to make it in record time to the RMS Titanic last location. They even went over the ship's maximum design speed limit for hours at a time. Huge Respect
@@estebanquito356 the captain hoped to make headlines, while affording passengers a great experience two and from Manhattan and Liverpool. And as you may have told, so many Americans as well we're hoping for the arrival of such a great liner.
An Irish passenger said she was in total shock and barely understood what was going on until much later. Hard to believe , but trauma can put you into a sort of trance state. I expect it the brains way of coping. I had a relative on board. He was crew and he survived. My sister's mum-in- law lost an uncle. He was a cabin boy.
@@estebanquito356 It was really remarkable indeed! the efford of steaming above the maximum designed speed level for hours crippled the Carpathia so that her engines where not able to operate even close as fast as before.
He did not go down with the ship. He was in command of lifeboat no 6, but mentally not fit for the task, so the women in the boat more or less took over!
I can’t stop watching this footage it gives me goosebumps..Why does it captivate us all so much..I love how the story goes into like a slumber only to be woken every 20 years or so..I will never be able to get enough of this story..Thankyou so much for sharing ❤
Some stories and events are just like that, i guess, they reach a mythical status over time specially after being recreated so many times, same goes for the Manson murders or James Dean's car crash, for example, all these incidents have so many layers and side stories, that you never lose intrest for them.
I think it’s due to the incredible size of the ship (it’s in the name itself), along with the claim that so many at the time considered it unsinkable. These factors made it all the more shocking that it got pulled into the abyss claiming so many lives.
@@StLProgressive Me too. Kid in the 80's. We saw a model of the ship at a museum and my mom sang the song about it ("...Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives. It was sad when the great ship went down... " and it made me fascinated to know more. I was one of those who saw Titanic in theater repeatedly!
It's always a bit of a surprise whenever i re-realize just how tall the ship was in the water, something that huge breaking in half must have been both amazing and Unimaginably Awful at the same time. Thank You for all the wonderful bits of history that now have a 2nd chance to exist as opposed to being forgotten. 😄👍
It was bloody enormous wasn't it and looking at the riveted plated construction of the hull, cutting edge at the time I'm sure, it's not hard to see how it fell apart.
@@MachineElf exactly. At the time it was "top of the line" but compared to the knowledge and materials we have now it wasn't exactly as tough as people would have thought or been told. 😄👍
@@therightperspective8690 yeah, more than half of it was in the water but still something That immense just shifting to stand on end and then separating like an invisible giant is ripping it apart is still a life changing event. Especially while floating in an ice cold ocean in the Friggin Dark.😨 No Thank You.😄👍
@@Bishop228 I... what? I was just talking about how sometimes the colors were off, like “we still have a ways to go with this AI thing.” What are you even on about?
It's unreal to think how good AI will be in another 10-20 years. Millions of lost frames of footage will be generated automatically with extreme accuracy. It's going to be wild. Then you factor in 3D recreations with VR... One day you'll be able to "walk" right next to the Titanic leaving, with a seamless mixture of 3D renders and photographs. It's going to be really amazing. The preservation of this history will be hard to imagine. It's why I always say the most powerful invention in human history is arguably the camera. Without them, this would be impossible to do (with the precision that we'll have). People undervalue the power to stop time forever.
@@Oozywolf Shit's gonna be wild, man. The things I always stay up in bed thinking about the most is how little we actually know about our history, as far as humanity and civilization goes. To imagine the years to come where that isn't any sort of issue is magical.
Amazing, I think the learning lesson from the Titanic and the recent submersible implosion was very simple. Respect the nature. Over curiosity combined with greediness w/out responsible innovation usually has a bad ending.
Uhm Titanic was a marvel of engineering. Yeah she sank. Ships sink. She held 3 hours until every boat was gone, radio blasting, lights and heat on. All express liners travelled at full speed. And none had enough boats. Well the Empress did but she sank in 14 minutes so that didn't help.
Everyone keeps trashing the decision to go into the ocean in a submersible but thats the only way technology advances & humanity moves forward. Dont you think when planes were first invented flying up in the clouds was a crazy idea?? Yet look at us now. Thousands of flights a day & it's relatively safe. You have to accept that also when it's new, not just when it's normalised. That's not to say, going in a crappy irregulated submersible wasn't a bad decision, cuz it was but I'm purely talking about the "nature" of going into the oceans.
If you actually read into the Titanic to separate the fact from the fiction, the actual engineering of the ship was sound. No one claimed it to be unsinkable from the company, but rather it was an image pressed by the media. What the sinking actually taught us was how to put in legislature to keep people safe at sea. For example, the main way ships communicated with each other was through wireless operated by Marconi operators. Most ships only had one Marconi operator who would work a day shift and then rest overnight. It was only by sheer luck that the Titanic was able to get it contact with Carpathia as the operator on Carpathia had decided to listen in one last time before he went to bed. If he hadn't, the Titanic would have likely been more disastrous than it was. As a result, all boats were required to have 24 hour watch on their wireless to allow ships to get in contact with each other at all hours. Similarly, many people think that the number of lifeboats was reduced in order to cut corners, when in actual fact, the Titanic did have as many as was required by law. Back then, lifeboats were implemented to be used to ferry people between ships if one began to sink (or at least that was how they were intended to be used for Titanic as it was believed to be designed so that it would stay afloat long enough for everyone to evacuate). What they hadn't really considered is what you would do if there wasn't a ship nearby to ferry to. It took the disaster of the Titanic for laws to implemented that required there be enough lifeboats to hold every passenger on board, and for items such as blankets, rations, and water to be placed in each. There are other examples, but these are the ones that come to mind.
For all those survivors who saw the horror of the others still on the ship . The yelling crying pleading for them to come back I can't even begin to imagine what 8t was like for all of them on 4he ship and in the lifeboats. All who lived to tell I can probably say their lives would never be the same
I was struck by the account of survivor Frank Goldsmith. He moved to a home near Navin Field, home of the Detroit Tigers. "Every time the crowd cheered during a home run, the sound reminded him of the screams of the dying passengers and crew in the water just after the ship sank; as a result, he never took his children to baseball games."
There is a story I heard once from an interview of a very old man, in his 90’s His father was a workman for Titanic. One of many Irish men that worked clanking away each rivet, all working in unison starting with her keel; or her spine and creating towering walls out of overlapping squares of steel and iron to create an empty hull, then launching her into the water where thousands of workers entered inside this massive empty space and built a city inside. When completed, the father took his little Boy to see what he had been part of for three years. From a distance they both marveled at her, and the father told the boy, “ you see that boat, she will always be floating.” And he said that with the greatest pride. Then the old man telling the story said “ after the disaster, and for the rest of his life,The mere mention of Titanic would cause my father to weep.” I shared that story as an answer why the great ships of a century ago are still so beautiful. A lot has to do with how they are built. Ships now are built like buildings , in sections, dissecting vertically then all wielding together. It doesn’t even look like a ship until this is done. Modern technology has these ships made extremely fast. The bigger the ship the more money they can Make. And cruise ships are made vastly different than ocean liners. Ocean liners Are built strong to face the weather of the Atlantic compared to cruise Ships sailing in calm waters. But I digress. Yes they are twice as big as Titanic, but they are built to house activities for entertainment rather than style. But they will never beat Titanic in quality of materials and never will. Wood is not used in ships anymore due to fire regulations. Titanic had the most beautiful woods from around the world and craftsmen carving everything by hand. Hand woven carpets of silk, gold leaf inlaid in her decoration, sculptures, brass fixtures. Now ships are filled with aluminum and plastic. Anyways, im so sorry, I’ve just rambled over My favorite subject :) I’ll shut up now
Marconi, the inventor of radio communication (contested by Tesla I believe) used to live on Long Island's South Shore, a few minutes from my town. A lot of the street names on Long Island are named after the wealthy landowners of the time that perished in the Titanic disaster. Those lands were estates, which then became farmland and is now the suburbs of NYC.
I'm not sure what it is. But the sight of Titanic practically 'breathing' and 'alive' with the smoke leaving her funnels. Gives off a eerie, creepy-ish feeling. I'd have to assume it's her presence and knowing today: The tragic, eventful, journey that those who'd board her very soon would endure.
The brave men who survived are acting so nonchalant, can you imagine the people who they encountered through out their lives never knowing what horrific trauma they had experienced. I’m sure those poor men had nightmares for years and years, and they still had to cross the Atlantic back to their homes!
Most where going to America to move there or return after a visit to the UK. Transatlantic travel was just a few years away from becoming a tourist thing. Later on many ships removed steerage or third class and combined that into a relatively affordable and comfortable tourist class. In the 1920s the US began limiting the amount of immigrants allowed in so that was a huge hit to busines for ocean liners and tourism was the new genius idea to keep the ships profitable. As to traume, there are survivors who couldn't go to large sporting event. One survivor said the roar of the crowd was the same as Titanic. You where on that little boat, the ship was gone and somewhere out in the dark a thousand where screaming for help. Many never forgot that sound and avoided sporting events.
lots of people seem to be confused by the A deck promenade. while most of this is undoubtedly the Olympic, the 1st footage is indeed of the RMS Titanic. the footage was captured in early February of 1912, while the promenade wasn't enclosed until either late February or early March. a more reliable way to tell the Olympic & Titanic apart is the B deck windows. on the Olympic, B deck had an enclosed promenade running along the sides, which is why Olympic's B deck windows are larger and more evenly spaced. This was intended to be the same on Titanic (which is why both ships were initially launched with this window configuration). However, the promenade proved on Olympic to be seldome used. So on Titanic, the space was used for extra cabins and suites, as well as expanding the A Lá Carte restaurant and it's galley. the space was also used for a new open-air Parisian café. these changes not only effectively changed almost all of B deck's internal layout, but changes to the window configuration were also needed. So Titanic's were thinner and more unevenly spaced, unlike Olympic's. Olympic's B deck promenade was replaced with additional cabins in 1913, after Titanic sank, and the windows were changed as well. but even then, their pattern was still different to Titanic's. hope this helps :)
No , Olympic's B deck windows were altered in 1913 , and the enclosed part of B deck extended further back at the same time , so that the forward windows were rectangular instead of square and unevenly spaced by then , the same as Titanic's .
Olympic's B deck got staterooms in the forward part in the 1930s refit. Along with the sheer line getting lowered. The forward staterooms got portholes instead of square or rectangular windows.
they were being filmed, which was pretty much a novel at that time. Of course they would goof around. It's also worth mentioning that goofing around is the way some people deal with stress and shock
I think they were so used to grief and loss in those days. Eva Harts mother smiled for the camera on the Carparhia knowing her husband was probably drowned. I think people in those days just got on with it.
Those opposed to the federal reserve also funded Nikola Tesla. The Richest Man on the Titanic owned the Land where the World Trade Center Twin Towers would stand for 28 years. There is also a strong possibility that Titanic and Olympic were switched for insurance money. J P Morgan, owner of Titanic, was booked to travel on Titanic but cancelled last minute, he died the following year when his Federal Banking Reserve was passed.J P Morgan also was the inspiration for the Monopoly Man. More to this story than an Iceberg and some "coincidences", prophecies, premonitions and bad luck.
@@FlamespeedyAMV World War was coming regardless i think. Germany and Britain were engaged in an arms race. France, Russia and Britain formed the Triple Entente alliance while Germany moved closer to Austria. War was coming
For the people who probably think that the footage is from the Olympic and not from the Titanic, there is a simple way to see if the ship is really the Titanic. You can see the irregular windows on the B deck, that windows are from the Titanic. So there you have a way to know which ship is the Olympic and Which is the Titanic
But Titanic's forward A deck promenade was enclosed? The footage must be Olympic, because it is an open promenade. Edit: Just found out this was taken before they enclosed it, my bad lmao
@@ComendadorAlfista Look at B deck and then come back. Titanic had open A deck promenade until a couple weeks before departing, was the last major change made to the design
The first footage isn't from April 2 1912, because the A Deck doesn't have its new windows that distinguish Titanic from Olympic. That footage is from an earlier time.
@@FredrickTheMoose2007 Yep, there is NO film footage actually showing the Titanic after it left Harland & Woolf, is there? The confusion with Olympic footage is very common - when I found this video my first thought was: "I wonder how many posts there will be pointing out that this isn't the Titanic?".
amazing work. It's interesting WHY Titanic is still so alluring. I think it's partly due to the beauty of the ship. It was a very well proportioned and elegant design. It still looks good today, much more attractive than modern ships or super yachts. The same thing happens when beautiful buildings are left to rot or torn down, beautiful objects have a power over people I think.
This is absolutely beautiful and amazing. So happy someone still held on to this footage and posted it on the internet where it will last forever. Many more generations will be just as infatuated with The Titanic as our generation was and generations before ours. I still remember being in Kindergarten when the wreckage was originally discovered/located. The surge in popularity rose again and remained in books throughout the 80’s & somewhat in the 90’s until the Film by James Cameron came out and then its popularity EXPLODED.
I live only a few minutes walk from the three main Titanic cemeteries. In fact I can even see the infamous "J Dawson" headstone from my living room window. There are some personal Titanic videos on my channel if anyone is interested. Awesome video, thank you for uploading this.
@@cbfwebs Where in my comment did I mention the fictional character of Jack? It's Joseph. "J Dawson" Aka Joseph Dawson was a trimmer on board Titanic. People flock to that grave because of the lore behind it. So yea, duh, there is no Jack Dawson(I never said there was. Lol) . Also, sidenote. I meant to say famous. Infamous just sounds bad.
Great footage. Although one look at a photo of the Titanic and you can see how off all the colours are. Another thing that strikes me is seeing all the smiles in this footage after such a tragedy, but perhaps these people are simply grateful to be alive and that it wasn't a complete loss of all aboard.
I mean something like 1500 people perished. There was only 10 boats that sat about 50?? And most were less than half-filled ?? Alot of men werent allowed to board?
@@jimcrawford5039 What a BS! WSL have had announced their Olympic-class as unsinkable and continued to reffer them as such! Surely design was new with revolutionary features that strike confidence in both WSL and general boat-building industry at the time! ...but dissaster of the Titanic unravel a host of mistakes, and simply wrong estimations as to what can lead to sinking of the ship!
@@stormtrooper9404 The bulkheads never went up to the full height of the infrastructure. Thus making the Titanic "sinkable" Later ships had bulkheads that fully sealed the Hull. White star were telling b...shit. Just like everyone does for PR purposes!
We can see absolute genius captain Edward Smith. He went down into sea. We can also see White Star Line office. But sadly can't see the cunnung face of Joseph Bruce Ismay, White Star Line owner who was on board on Titanic in her first voyage. He manage to escape when iceberg struck. Later by press he was called Joseph Brute Ismay
@Skip Ads Hello, just FYI Robert William Daniel, a 1st class passenger and survivor of RMS Titanic who also later became Senate member of Virginia state, said and i quote "Captain Smith was biggest hero I ever saw."...
@Skip Ads Newspaper who covered the story like it was some mega event. American and British press lied of course, eh? And you holier than thou century later speaking the Gospel truth? Of course, right? Come on!!
@Marvolo1590 Some random person? He wasn't the random person. He was 1st class passenger. He might've had many interaction with captain Smith. His opinion about Captain Smith are more relevant than yours.
Ismay did not convince Captain Smith to speed up that was debunked. That was just a lie made up by the press to discredit him. He stayed until the last life boat was available and was ordered into the boat by one of the crew members.
@Skip Ads I too quoted Titanic survivor. British and American press ridiculed Bruce Ismay, it's right there all over internet. James Cameron portrayed Ismay as Villain. There are enough praises for Captain Smith all over internet. You seem to have done some archival research on Titanic to have a contrary PoV.
Today, I can't help but feel sorry for those people who survived the Titanic disaster, only to face the impending approach of both WW1 and WW2. Just imagine if we could go back and tell them, "Hey, brace yourselves because war is coming!"
There is a woman who was on the Olympic when it got rammed by a warship (USS Hawke), she was on the Titanic when it sank and on the Britannic during WWI, which was sunk by a sea mine. Imagine going back in time and telling her that WWII was coming. I bet she was so fucking done with everybody's shit.
@merrynothing3204 That baker is legendary. He is even in the 1997 movie, first helping Rose get up, then riding down with Rose and Jack. A tip of the hat, to the man who really did it next to the fictional characters. In a deleted scene he's even shown throwing all the deck chairs overboard and drinking his booze. Absolute legend.
According to James Cameron, the captain was reckless (and consequently responsible for the death of over 1500 souls) ordering full speed all the while aware of "a graveyard" full of icebergs in the Titanic's path to New York City.
@@boke75 it was a common strategy at the time to get through the "iceberg alley" as quickly as possible while relying on lookouts to spot bergs in time to avoid them
I thought so too but if you look up the Titanic's "quartermaster Hitchens" the story you find is almost a polar opposite of what's said in the video - unless there were 2 quartermasters with the same name on board... Or perhaps it is correct in regard to the guy on the video, but they got the name wrong... in fact he looks quite similar to QM Sidney Humphreys but the story doesn't match so it might be a mistake due to confusion soon after the disaster or it may be just made up altogether.
Good, not clickbait. In the first video (yes, Titanic before sinking) is indeed Titanic. You can see her name printed onto the hull. Thank yiu for sharinf the footage.
A grand ship sailed out to sea, With dreams of grandeur, full of glee. Built to be grand, built to be strong, A symbol of man's endless song. But fate had other plans in store, A cruel twist, a tragic core. The ship, so grand, so full of pride, Sank down into the ocean's tide. With hearts full of hope and dreams so bright, The passengers set sail into the night. But as the icy water rushed in, Their hopes and dreams came crashing. Mothers held their children tight, Fathers prayed with all their might. But it was all for naught, you see, For the Titanic was doomed to be. The grand ship that once sailed so proud, Now lies on the ocean's bed, bowed. A haunting reminder of man's pride, And the fragility of life, that we cannot hide. The tears flow as we think of them, Those souls who were lost in the end. A beautiful sad poem, a tale to tell, Of the RMS Titanic, and the lives it fell.
Still haunting & sad to watch after all the years that have passed .... a tragic loss of life through mans pomposity & greed .... May those who perished RIP ...
I've never seen these clips and I watch every show that is on TV, even the repeats. I went to the first Titanic exhibition long ago...seeing the piece of the hull and all the personal artifacts was very moving...
It must've been so eery when it was gone, for those just sitting in the lifeboats. It was like, that's it, it's over. But they never really got closure. How can you? Bless them all.
Along the lines of seeing those from the past, you might want to check out RU-vid videos of interviews conducted with Civil War veterans, from both sides, that was filmed in the Summer of 1930. Those actual veterans recount their memories of fighting at Gettysburg, etc., battles that were fought in the 1860s; 65 or so years prior to the interview. One Southern veteran, at around 90 years old at the time of the interview, demonstrates a Rebel Yell.
@@Mike-iq1cn I'm going to watch it if I can find the videos, I will search for it. Thank you for that information, I have greatly learned to appreciate & love History through the ages.
@@skmcpheron 61 or 62 is not that old. My great great grandparents both born in 1888 were still alive when my mom was born in 1970. They died in 1974. And I had a great grandmother who was born in 1910 who was still alive when I was born in 2001. She died when I was about to turn 3. That's a long life.
A Night to Remember is worth a watch. Of the 20 or so movies depicting the end of the grand liner it's by far my favourite. SOS Titanic is pretty good too. Ship looks wrong because they used Queen Mary. ANTR too for some footage. The launching scene that opens the movie is actually the launch of Queen Mary. But the rest of the movie the sets are exquisite. Based on interviews with survivors.
Look at how well dressed everybody is. Even the young ones wear suits and ties. The older ones wear lovely hats too. How did we end up like we are nowadays? We look like shit...
@@anSealgair in those days they didn’t have launderettes, washing machines, driers plus many could only afford one to two suit’s. Also many used horses for transport and coal was used for heating etc. Can you imagine the difficulty in keeping something like a suit clean. I think they did remarkably well in looking clean and presentable.
@@anSealgair nice try bud but the reality is people don’t do more than back then ; people then actually worked really bloody hard ; people are now generallly slobs
Its was a assaination of some very influential people. There were some powerful and extremely wealthy people on that boat. Some of them opposed the establishment of a federal government, within the United States. And they had the money and persuasive ability to make sure it didn't get established. Well the good ole boys struck again, And sunk the unsinkable
@rented identity A lot of less fortunate people were on the Titanic less for the party and more for the transportation. It was heading to New York after all. Most of them were in the belly of the ship, and most of them drowned.
Either this is made up to gain attention, as usual under these videos, or you don't know your relative as good as you think you do. There was no female victim age 13. Not a single one.
This is precious footage thx. Boy, first this tragic loss, then followed shortly by the Great War, then a global depression, followed by a Second World War. I can’t help but think that all of these things were absolutely preventable. But I cannot imagine the world today without them either. God bless our ancestors souls.
I know it's nothing when compared to modern day cruisers, but it's still a huge ship. Funny though, looking at surviving crew members, they're no different to today's equivalent. As in "yeah, our ship sunk, happy to be alive, let's have a pint". None of the mythology we grew up with :)
Very cool! Tbh, the ship (Titanic) seems much smaller than I imagined. Seeing the men walking along side it on the dock, and the actual proportions, was surprising. It’s a big ship to be sure, but I think they definitely exaggerated it’s size in David Cameron’s film. I guess that’s to be expected though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Dimensions_and_layout - "Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m)."
Nah it's the perspective Titanic was huge. Look at people on Titanic. And yes Cameron's Titanic has 10% cut out. And the funnels are less tall. It's why if you grew up with the movie and look at images now the funnels seem super tall and the ship very long and slender. Cameron made Titanic a little bit chubby.
Props to the cameraman at 1:34 for fitting quartermaster Hitchens' balls in the frame. A real man who went down with the ship and still refused to die.
Many people claim that this is not the Titanic, but her sister-ship, the Olympic...Well, I did a little research and here are my conclusions: THIS IS THE TITANIC. First of all, you can read (barely) the ship's name engraved on the hull of the ship (around 0:30). Second, what about the most noticeable exterior difference between these two ships, namely partially enclosed promenade on the A deck? Well, that was done as a last minute change, at personal request from Bruce Ismay. Apparently, this film was made before these changes were made, hence little confusion...Anyway, after her fitting out, she departed for sea trials on April 2nd, 1912, only eight days before her maiden voyage. The easiest way to tell this ship from the Olympic are, actually, windows on the B deck, which were unevenly spaced and of varying shape and there is one more feature which is not so easy to spot: extended bridge-wing, overhanging the rest of the superstructure by few feet. So, to conclude: this is, most definitely, the Titanic and, as the description says, it is the only known film of this ship...
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