Is the footage iin the beginning of the film Titanic actual footage?
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Yes, a lot of the Titanic underwater shipwreck footage is real actual footage. The director of the film documented how he got this footage in the movie Ghosts of the Abyss. The Robots they used in the footage were nicknamed Jake and Elwood, like the Blues Brothers.
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I think the first film was a production by Edison of Frankenstein.\n\nYou do mean silent film, right?\n\nMaybe not.\n\nI was mistaken: "1903\nEdison Corporation mechanic Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director and producer to make The Great Train Robbery. With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film's basic element and editing as a central narrative device. It is also the first Western."\n\nReally? Thanks, K.
474695
titanic 2???? wat the hell therez only 1 titanic y a second movie
495280
The movie is based on a fictional novel so why would you go into seeing it believing it was a documentary?  It is just entertainment.  Part of it can be based on fact like the trully existing Opus Dei or on fiction as the fictional characters that are in the movie.  Take it as you like it.  If you believe there is truth to it believe it if you do not don't believe it.  In the end it is not a documentary it's an action adventure movie.  Go to see it with an open mind.
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Hey,\n\nJack Dawson, Rose deWitt Bukator, Ruth deWitt Bukator, Cal Hockley, their maid Trudy, Brock Lovett, Rose's granddaughter Izzy.... all fictional for the purpose of the film.\n\nJohn Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Sir Cosmo and Lucile Lady Duff Gordon, Molly Brown, Thomas Andrews, Bruce Ismay... all were real people. JJ Astor, Thomas Andrews, and Benjamin Giggenheim perished, Molly Brown was thrown into a lifeboat as it had just started to be lowered (instead of getting in with Ruth in the movie). Bruce Ismay did get into the boat the way he did, and apparently the Gordons bribed the seaman in charge of their boat to row away without more than about 20 people on board. they denied it in the inquiry.\n\ni hope this helped
661557
NO it is not real, if you watched the fake preview, these are all scenes from Leonardo's movies ( Catch me if you can, and Romeo and Juliette and many more)
465518
DaVinci Code\nAnd actually, yes, it's from the book.  The book is excellent, by the way..curious to see how the film turns out...
875440
Titanic is my favorite movie of the three... Passion of the Christ is my favorite overall!!... touching
1055991
Well.. I think many here described it well and gave you some of the comic book background to the Moira character... \n\nBUT...\n\nWhy not watch it yourself!\n\nThe movie studio is on the rampage to delete this camera phone file from the net, so no guarantees as to how long this link will work, but if it doesn't... message me direct.\n\n(It will be interesting to see how long this answer and the link survives.  As of 6/20/06, 11:00 AM EST, it was working.)
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See http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/titanic.htm for the Smithsonian's facts about the ship.
699236
One was fake. The Titanic only needed three funnels, the fourth (rear-most) funnel was only for aesthetic reasons. If you see a photo of the Titanic at sea you will notice only the front three funnels will be putting out smoke.
350290
i dont think we'll know til we get up there for real. BUT the history channel has been very accurate on all accounts since i've seen it... so... if it says it is then, i guess so. but we'll see. the whole idea of it being there is pretty cool though.
838172
First off - anything you want to know about the Titanic you can find out at http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/ and as for the answer you are looking for the 866 survivors that were taken aboard the Carpathia they were brought to NYC http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item/3447/  The irony of the Carpathia was it itself was later sunk by a German U-boat near the end of WWI.  \n\nI hope this is what you were looking for!!!
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Overconfidence.Because Titanic hull's made of very thick steel and they thought it was strong enought to deal with little iceberg.\n\nOn the night of Sunday, April 14, the temperature had dropped to near freezing and the ocean was completely calm. Surviving 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller later wrote "the sea was like glass". There was no moon and the sky was clear. Captain Edward Smith, perhaps in response to iceberg warnings received via wireless over the last few days, had altered Titanic's course around 10 miles (18 km) south of the normal shipping route. That Sunday at 1:45 PM, a message from the steamer SS Amerika warned that large icebergs lay south of Titanic's path but the warning was addressed to the USN Hydrographic office and was never relayed to the bridge. Iceberg warnings were received throughout the day and were quite normal for that time of year. Later that evening at 9:30pm, another report of numerous, large icebergs in Titanic's path came to Jack Phillips and Harold Bride in the radio room, this time from the Mesaba, but also failed to reach the bridge. Although there were warnings, there was no operational and safety reason to slow down or alter course. The Titanic had three teams of two lookouts high up in the "Crow's nest" who rotated every two hours. On any other night, it is almost certain they would have been able to see the berg in time. With no moon, no wind and the dark side of the berg facing the ship, a conglomeration of factors that might occur once in a lifetime came together. Had they spotted the iceberg 10 seconds later or 10 seconds earlier or even had simply hit it straight on, the ship likely would not have foundered. As Lightoller later said at the American inquiry "Everything was against us that night."\n\nAt 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship. Fleet sounded the ship's bell three times and telephoned the bridge. Sixth Officer Moody answered, "Yes, what do you see?", only to hear Fleet exclaiming, "Iceberg, right ahead!", to which Moody responded, "thank you", before informing First Officer Murdoch of the call. Murdoch (who had now already seen the iceberg) ordered an abrupt turn to port (left) and full speed astern, which stopped and then reversed the ship's reciprocating engines driving the wing propellers (the center shaft stopped as the turbine was not reversible. In reverse configuration the residual steam from the reciprocating engines was channeled directly to the condensers). A collision turned out to be inevitable, and the ship's starboard (right) side brushed the iceberg, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline, creating a total of six leaks in the first five watertight compartments. The 5th compartment was breeched for only 10-15 feet. Murdoch then ordered the ship hard right rudder which swung Titanic's stern away from the iceberg. The watertight doors were shut as water started filling the five compartments --one more than Titanic could stay afloat with. Captain Smith, alerted by the jolt of the impact, ordered "all-stop" once he arrived on the bridge. Following an inspection by the ship's senior officers, the ship's carpenter and Thomas Andrews, which included a survey of the half flooded two-deck postel room, it was apparent that the Titanic would sink. 45 minutes after the collision, at approximetly 12:30pm the Captain ordered the lifeboats prepped. At approximetly 12:45pm, a full hour after the collision, the first white distress rocket was fired by 4th Officer Joseph Boxhall.
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Yep - read it was original footage of him as a kid that they've used...good innit?
438503
is there really going to be a titanic two
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Not many people are alive today that were at Pearl Harbor and I believe that the last survivor of the Titanic died recently.  \n\nThe first movie about the Titanic didn't come out until 1943.\n\nI think the fact that 9/11 was a terrorist attack on our own homeland soil is the reason it is such a touchy subject.