Did they actually make a movie depicting the events of the Titanic?
And no, I don't mean "that" version everyone is thinking of.
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bijouxbroussard · F
Several, starting from 1912–the year it sank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_Titanic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_Titanic
Bri89 · 36-40, M
@bijouxbroussard Thank you.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@bijouxbroussard Interesting! Thank you.
I see the fiction stories seem as divided as the foundering ship's hull became, between unlikely romances and mere fantasy.
I've seen the Cameron film Titanic - and spotted some of its infamous "deliberate mistakes" and oddities - but none of the documentaries or those purporting to be so.
A couple of years ago I heard of one well-meaning but mis-directed "theory" posed by a couple of academic in the USA that the damage to the ship was greatly worsened by poor-qaulity steel rivets, full of slag. Misdirected because it failed to comprehend that most big structures of the time were of mild-steel plates and sections held together with rivets made from wrought-iron, which is fibrous.
There must be hundreds if not thousands of millions of similar rivets still in service around the world, still holding together civil-engineering structures in everyday use but built well over 100 years ago!
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The ship sank because having scraped along an ice-berg at speed, ripping a hole in the hull as would have happened even more drastically to a modern ship's thinner plating, the hull was not sufficiently compartmented to limit the loss of bouyancy .
She was though built to at least to, if not exceeding, the prevailing engineering and safety standards of her day.
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Her two sisters were Britannic and Olympic.
Britannic was sunk by enemy action in WW1.
Olympic completed a full and happily uneventful life of some 30 years, about average for a major ship, before being scrapped. I may be wrong but think it's nearer 20 years for many modern commercial vessels - very wasteful.
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Those liners, including the three Titanic class, were not running extravagant pleasure-cruises as we see today; but genuine ferry services, transporting people and post between countries before air travel became the feasible, much faster and relatively cheaper rival.
I see the fiction stories seem as divided as the foundering ship's hull became, between unlikely romances and mere fantasy.
I've seen the Cameron film Titanic - and spotted some of its infamous "deliberate mistakes" and oddities - but none of the documentaries or those purporting to be so.
A couple of years ago I heard of one well-meaning but mis-directed "theory" posed by a couple of academic in the USA that the damage to the ship was greatly worsened by poor-qaulity steel rivets, full of slag. Misdirected because it failed to comprehend that most big structures of the time were of mild-steel plates and sections held together with rivets made from wrought-iron, which is fibrous.
There must be hundreds if not thousands of millions of similar rivets still in service around the world, still holding together civil-engineering structures in everyday use but built well over 100 years ago!
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The ship sank because having scraped along an ice-berg at speed, ripping a hole in the hull as would have happened even more drastically to a modern ship's thinner plating, the hull was not sufficiently compartmented to limit the loss of bouyancy .
She was though built to at least to, if not exceeding, the prevailing engineering and safety standards of her day.
'
Her two sisters were Britannic and Olympic.
Britannic was sunk by enemy action in WW1.
Olympic completed a full and happily uneventful life of some 30 years, about average for a major ship, before being scrapped. I may be wrong but think it's nearer 20 years for many modern commercial vessels - very wasteful.
'
Those liners, including the three Titanic class, were not running extravagant pleasure-cruises as we see today; but genuine ferry services, transporting people and post between countries before air travel became the feasible, much faster and relatively cheaper rival.