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Titanic disaster - Public domain image of a steam boat
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Shows E. J. Smith, who was later commander of the Titanic, inspecting the Titanic's sister ship Olympia (i.e., Olympic), which was launched on April 31, 1911. (From 108-115', this medium close-up footage of Smith standing on deck repeats itself five times.) Provides views of the first, second, and third cabin promenade decks. Shows luggage being loaded with an electrical crane, then gives a forward end view of the first, second, and third cabin decks. Last scene of the ship shows it moving from the dock, as hundreds of people wave. Next sequence has jumpy pans showing the Titanic's rescue ship Carpathia, with its captain Arthur H. Rostron, and many young men on the deck mugging in front of the camera. Survivor Stewart (i.e., Stuart) Collett is interviewed by the press.
Main and end titles lacking.
LC also holds a film entitled Titanic in the AFI/Marshall (George) Collection which may have some of the same footage. Films have not been compared.
Secondary sources indicate that some of this footage may also have appeared in other newsreel films, including the Universal animated weekly, and Gaumont.
Sources used: The George Kleine Collection...catalog, p. 136; Moving picture world, v. 12, no. 4, (April 27, 1912), p. 359; British Film Institute WWW site, viewed March 4, 2016; Bottomore, S. The Titanic and silent cinema, viewed online March 4, 2016, via Google books, p. 86-88.
The George Kleine Collection of early motion pictures in the Library of Congress : a catalog / prepared by Rita Horwitz and Harriet Harrison with the assistance of Wendy White. Library of Congress, 1980.
Rainy scratches, dirt spots, nitrate bloom, some repetitious footage.
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died in the sinking, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, the RMS Titanic was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster.
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