The Titanic (commemorations)

Films that need to be watched

Saved from the titanic (released 29 days after the sink)

Saved from the Titanic is a 1912 silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. She had been one of around 28 people aboard the first lifeboat to be launched from Titanic and was rescued about five and a half hours after leaving the ship. On returning to New York, she co-wrote the script and played a fictionalized version of herself. The plot involves her recounting the story of the disaster to her fictional parents and fiancé, with the footage interspersed by stock footage of icebergs, Titanic's sister ship Olympic and the ship's captain Edward Smith. To add to the film's authenticity Gibson wore the same clothes as on the night of the disaster and her rescue. The filming took place in a New Jersey studio and aboard a derelict ship in New York Harbor. It was the first film to be made about the disaster and premiered in the United States just 29 days after the ship sank. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_from_the_Titanic

A night to remember (1958)

A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), recounting the final night of the RMS Titanic. It was adapted by Eric Ambler, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and filmed in the United Kingdom. The production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty, used blueprints of the ship to create the sets accurately, while Titanic fourth officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge both worked as technical advisors on the film.

The film premiered in the United Kingdom on Tuesday 1 July 1958. Titanic survivorElizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958.^{[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_to_Remember_(1958_film)}

Titanic (1997)

In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Keldyshsearch the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace. The drawing is dated April 14, 1912, the day Titanic struck the iceberg. Rose Dawson Calvert claims to be the person in the drawing, visits Lovett and tells of her experiences aboard Titanic.

In 1912 Southampton, 17-year-old first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her fiancé Cal Hockley and her mother Ruth board Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that Rose's marriage will resolve the DeWitt Bukaters' financial problems. Distraught over the engagement, Rose considers committing suicide by jumping from the stern; Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, convinces her not to. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells Cal she was peering over the edge and Jack saved her from falling. Cal is indifferent, but when Rose indicates some recognition is due, he offers Jack a small amount of money. After Rose asks whether saving her life meant so little, he invites Jack to dine with them in first class the following night. Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, though Cal and Ruth are wary of him. Following dinner, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in third class.

Aware of Cal and Ruth's disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jack's advances, but later realizes she prefers him to Cal. After rendezvousing on the stern at sunset, Rose takes Jack to her stateroom and displays Cal's engagement present: the Heart of the Ocean. At her request, Jack sketches Rose posing nude wearing the necklace. They evade Cal's bodyguard and have sex in an automobile in the ship's cargo hold. The pair later visits the ship's forward deck, witnessing a collision with an iceberg and overhearing the ship's officers and designer discussing its seriousness.

Cal discovers Jack's sketch of Rose and a mocking note from her in his safe along with the necklace. When Jack and Rose attempt to tell Cal of the collision, Cal has his manservant slip the necklace into Jack's pocket and accuses him of theft. Jack is arrested, taken to the Master-at-arms' office, and handcuffed to a pipe. Cal puts the necklace in his own coat pocket.

With the ship sinking, Rose is desperate to free Jack. She flees Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, and rescues Jack. They return to the top deck, where Cal and Jack encourage her to board a lifeboat; Cal claims he can get himself and Jack off safely. After Rose boards, Cal tells Jack the arrangement is only for himself. As her boat lowers, Rose decides she cannot leave Jack and jumps back on board. Cal takes his manservant's pistol and chases Rose and Jack into the flooding first-class dining saloon. After using up his ammunition, Cal realizes he gave his coat and consequently the diamond to Rose. Cal boards a lifeboat by carrying a lost child.

After braving several obstacles, Jack and Rose return to the boat deck. All lifeboats have departed and passengers are falling to their deaths as the stern rises from the water. The ship breaks in half, lifting the stern into the air. Jack and Rose ride the stern into the ocean and he helps her onto a wooden panel only buoyant enough for one person. Holding the edge, Jack assures Rose she will die an old woman, warm in her bed. He dies from hypothermia but Rose is saved.

With Rose hiding from Cal en route, the RMS Carpathia takes the survivors to New York. There Rose gives her name as Rose Dawson. She later learns Cal committed suicide after losing everything in the 1929 Wall Street Crash.

Hearing Rose's story, Lovett abandons his search. Alone on the stern of Keldysh, Rose takes out the Heart of the Ocean—in her possession all along—and drops it into the sea over the wreck site. While she is seemingly asleep in her bed, photos on her dresser depict a life of freedom and adventure, partly inspired by Jack. A young Rose reunites with Jack at the ship's Grand Staircase, applauded by those who perished. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)

Tv Series/ shows

Titanic (the TV mini series - 2012)

Titanic is a four-part television miniseries period drama based on the sinking of the RMSTitanic, a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, United Kingdom, toNew York City, United States.^[1]

Episode one[edit]

The first episode focuses mainly on the family of the Earl of Manton. He, his wife, his manservant and the Lady Manton's maid have been booked on the Titanic for ages but the earl arranges for his daughter, Georgiana, who has been rebelling against society by trying to get women to have the vote, to get a booking at the last minute. They board the ship, and Lady Manton is instantly inhospitable to Muriel Batley, wife of the earl's employee, John Batley. A further rift is caused between the pair when Lady Manton tells Mrs Batley about her blood roots back to Ireland, which she mocks. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between Georgiana and the handsome son of an American millionaire, but everything is put aside when the ship hits the iceberg. As the Mantons look for a lifeboat that is not full, things do not look good as, although Georgiana is put on a boat, Lady Manton refuses to leave her husband.

Episode two[edit]

Going back to before the ship's ill-fated voyage, the designers of the ship are in conflict over how many lifeboats should be on the boat. One of them hires Irishman Jim Maloney to get a more competent team to finish the behind-schedule electrical wiring, in exchange for transporting his family to America for a new life. Although his wife, Mary, is unsure of the move, they go anyway and Jim manages to secure the family a room in third class. However, a stranger and fellow passenger, Peter, makes Mary wary by constantly appearing nearby and soon makes the acquaintance of Mary's husband. Meanwhile, Italian engineer Mario's brother, Paolo, catches the eye of a beautiful stewardess, Annie Desmond. The couple from Episode one, John and Muriel Batley, are shown having a turbulent time in their marriage. The ship hits the iceberg, and the Maloney family is trapped below decks. Peter steps out by attacking one of the stewards so Mary and her children can pass; however, both he and Jim are trapped below decks. Mary and her children manage to get on board a lifeboat, but the Batleys are not so lucky and the cliffhanger shows them with Second Officer Lightoller, the Earl of Manton and Harry Widener attempting to right an overturned lifeboat as the water reaches the boat deck.

Episode three[edit]

Italian stoker Mario Sandrini gets a job on the ship, and he also manages to secure passage for his brother Paolo, as the only foreign waiter in the first-class dining saloon. Paolo instantly becomes smitten with cabin steward Annie Desmond. Watson brings Lady Manton's jewel case down to steerage, and Barnes is shocked to discover why. Meanwhile, Paolo startles Annie with an impulsive gesture. Mary finally lets her guard down with Peter Lubov, enraging her husband Jim. But their argument is interrupted when the iceberg strikes, and fear builds in steerage as passengers find themselves behind locked gates. Lubov helps Mary and her children escape, and after Mario is dragged away by staff members, passengers from steerage manage to get up on deck, Jim and Lubov in their midst. When up on deck the Earl of Manton helps Mary and the children into a lifeboat but, in the scramble for safety, Mary's terrified daughter Theresa bolts back inside the sinking ship, followed by her father. Mario and the other Italians from Gatti's Restaurant have been locked in a storage cupboard and, after Paolo sees Annie safely to a lifeboat, he goes in search of his brother. The episode ends with Paolo standing outside the locked cupboard with the water quickly rising around him.

Episode four[edit]

The final episode aired in the UK and the US on 15 April 2012, the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. Global aired it on 11 April 2012. This episode follows the desperate plight of the passengers, in the gripping final instalment, as the Titanic sinks into the icy waters. Mr and Mrs. Rushton are left dining alone in the first-class dining saloon when the rest of their table goes to the Gatti's Restaurant. After dinner, when Margaret Brown asks them why they did not join them, Mrs. Rushton is mortified when her husband says they weren't invited, and she decides to go to bed. Jim and Mary talk about what happened with Lubov, and after Jim asks her if she's excited about getting a new life, she says that all she wants is their life. At the bridge the ship's officers talk about the speed of the ship, where it is revealed that first officer Murdoch feels they are travelling too fast. Paolo brings Annie to see Mario. The ship hits the iceberg, and Batley, who was on deck when it hit, wakes his wife. Benjamin Guggenheim and his mistress, Madame Aubart, are interrupted by her lady's maid and his manservant who inform them that the ship is sinking. Guggenheim asks his manservant to make sure they are never caught in a disaster with foreigners again, to which he replies "I am a foreigner". Watson is accidentally locked in the Mantons' cabin searching for her father's book when a steward orders that all first-class cabins be locked to prevent people from stealing. She is, however, saved when Barnes comes to her aid and gets a steward to open the door. When she is running for a lifeboat he gives her an envelope and tells her not to open it until she is safe. Lubov and Jim go in search of Theresa, Jim's daughter, but when Jim finds her, it is too late to escape. Theresa asks him what they do now, and he replies that they sit there and hold each other tight. Mrs Rushton refuses to get into a lifeboat without her dog, and just when it seems it is to leave without her, J. J. Astor appears on deck, having released all the dogs from the kennels, including his own beloved Kitty. Mrs. Rushton takes her own dog and Kitty into the lifeboat and promises to keep her safe for Astor. Paolo manages to get Lubov to help him free his brother and the other Italians from the cupboard. Lady Manton is finally persuaded to get into a lifeboat and, as it is being lowered, J. Bruce Ismay steps in. As Batley and his wife try to turn over the final lifeboat with the other passengers, water comes rushing over the bow of the ship, and they are all swept apart. Paolo and Mario jump into the water and try to swim to safety, but they are separated and, as Mario climbs on to the overturned lifeboat, he sees the ship break in half and sink beneath the ocean. He looks frantically for Paolo. Many other men climb aboard the lifeboat, including Lightoller. When 17-year-old Jack Thayer swims nearby, he is refused entry to the overturned lifeboat; but one of the men dies, and Jack is allowed to take his place on the boat. The Duff Gordons persuade the crew of their near-empty lifeboat not to return to help people when Cosmo Duff Gordon tells them he will give them each a fiver to stay where they are. All Lady Duff Gordon can think of is her secretary's beautiful nightdress which she left on board the ship. All of the women in the other boats want to go and assist the people in the water and, as they discuss what to do, Batley floats by, clinging to the body of his wife. He is persuaded to let her go and is pulled aboard. It takes too long for them to create a pontoon from the boats and, by the time a lifeboat reaches the people in the water, most are dead. Only three are saved, two being Paolo, who then died on the way back, and Lord Manton, who is revived with brandy supplied by Dorothy Gibson. Mrs. Rushton gives Kitty to Madeleine Astor. Jack and his mother are reunited; however, Harry Elkins Widener, drowned. (According to his mother in earlier episodes, he couldn't swim.) Watson reads the letter Barnes wrote her. It is his will, in which he leaves her a small house, which should be perfect for her father. The episode ends with the survivors being rowed towards the rescuing ship (RMS Carpathia), while remembering those they had lost. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(2012_TV_miniseries)

Memorials

The Titanic disaster was commemorated through a variety of memorials and monuments to the victims, erected in several English-speaking countries and in particular in cities that had suffered notable losses. These included Southampton, Liverpool and Belfast in the United Kingdom; New York and Washington, D.C. in the United States; and Cobh (formerly Queenstown) in Ireland.^[232] A number of museums around the world have displays on Titanic. In Northern Ireland, the ship is commemorated by the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction, opened on 31 March 2012, that stands on the site of the shipyard where Titanic was built.^[233]

RMS Titanic Inc., which is authorised to salvage the wreck site, has a permanent Titanic exhibition at the Luxor Las Vegas hotel and casino in Nevada which features a 22-ton slab of the ship's hull. It also runs an exhibition which travels around the world.^[234] In Nova Scotia, Halifax's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic displays items that were recovered from the sea a few days after the disaster. They include pieces of woodwork such as panelling from the ship's First Class Lounge and an original deckchair,^[235] as well as objects removed from the victims.^[236] In 2012 the centenary was marked by plays, radio programmes, parades, exhibition and special trips to the site of the sinking together with commemorative stamps and coins.^[152]^[237]^[238]^[239] ^{[240] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic}

^{There is also a new memorial opening in China at a theme park, check this article for more details}
^{http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/13/titanic-replica-chinese-theme-park}

Pictures (done by me and from the internet)

SAVED FROM THE TITANIC

http://en.wikipeditp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_from_the_Titanica.org/

http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/period-pieces-100-years-of-titanic-costumes/#1

http://en.wikipeditp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_from_the_Titanica.org/

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_to_Remember_(1958_film)

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreviews8/nighttoremember.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/07/night-to-remember-titanic

THE TITANIC

http://movies.insing.com/feature/featurewaterlogged-life-of-pi-vs-titanicid-66663f00/id-66663f00/

http://www.picstopin.com/477/titanic-movie-scenes-af677jpg/http:%7C%7Cknowmybody*com%7Cwp-content%7Cuploads%7C2012%7C10%7Ctitanic-movie-scenes-af677*jpg/

http://www.denverpost.com/titanic/ci_20189030/titanic-leaves-memorable-wake-film

TITANIC MINI SERIES

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869152/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2108668/Titanic-mini-series-Downton-Abbey-sea-Julian-Fellowes-heart-rendering-tragedy.html

http://cine-fille.com/2012/04/18/titanic-2012-julian-fellowes/

BELFAST TITANIC MUSEUM/ EXHIBIT

http://www.stakeholdergroup.com/news/first-look-inside-titanic-belfast-2/

my own image - 2nd January 2014

BELFAST TITANIC MEMORIAL

http://www.demotix.com/news/1153880/preview-new-titanic-memorial-garden-belfast

My own Image - 2nd January 2014

http://www.photocast.co.uk/titanic-memorial-belfast/

SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC MEMORIAL

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/23233

http://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_memorial-musicians_southampton.shtml

LIVERPOOL MEMORIAL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17667272

NEW YORK MEMORIAL

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=585

WASHINGTON DC MEMORIAL

http://www.old-picture.com/american-legacy/008/Washington-Memorial-Titanic-Lister.htm

HALIFAX MEMORIAL/GRAVES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_Cemetery,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia

COBH MEMORIAL

http://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_memorial-cobh.shtml

Titanic Exhibit - Las Vegas

My own image - August 2011

TITANIC Las Vegas Exhibit - Own image

TITANIC Las Vegas - Own image

Reflection of research

This page is all about the commemorations from the titanic, though it doesn't directly help my research - it helps me find where there are museums and historical parts about the Titanic which could help me with at least part of my research.

They ones i went to were very imformative and showed how much the film 'Titanic' kept close to the true story - including people who were actually on board, who died and what everyones class position was.

Clearly it is important for a film to be very authentic and realistic to the year it is being based in, if not it can throw people off and lose its audiences.

1910 - 1920 English History

Sunday 16 February 2014