The band leader is Wallace Hartley - he is the middle picture. I learned about him when I researched this song and wanted to find out what it was about:
@SW-User Survivors reported that the band's last number was Nearer, My God, to Thee.
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My great grandma's cousin, and some other relatives, died on the Titanic. About half his group survived, they boarded the ship in Cherbourg. They were all traveling in 3rd class.
It's somewhere in Missouri. On my bucket list. I would like to see the manifest and the names on the manifest, to see if I can connect them to my great grandma who settled in Missouri.
@Northwest it's really a very interesting experience. I recommend going. Take your time and thoroughly go through the stations. People were rushing too quickly
James Cameron went full OCD on this production, at every point. He even tracked down the company who made the rugs on the original ship(!!). He got Panavision to make cameras that could withstand the pressure to film the real Titanic at the bottom of the ocean(actually, they offered to, but still). And, if you don't have the letterboxed version, he reframed almost every shot for home video(won't bore you to death with how/why).
