On the night of April 14, 1912, the great luxury liner, Titanic, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. In less than three hours, the great ship sank taking with it the lives of 1,523 of its passengers and crew. Throughout maritime history, no other ship tragedy has affected so many generations and whose story has been retold time and time again. Over the years since her sinking, several movies have been produced to tell their versions of what happened during Titanic’s short voyage. No one can be sure of every event that transpired during the journey. Of all the movies produced since her sinking, James Cameron’s “Titanic” has been the most profitable. Take away the love story and several fictional characters and you would have a fairly accurate documentary of Titanic’s first and last voyage.

The main characters of the love story in the movie Titanic are fictional. Rose, her mother, Cal Hockley and Lizzy Calvert are not listed on any of the passenger lists for the Titanic. There is a J. Dawson listed on the crew list as a trimmer but no Dawson appears on any of the third-class passen

piritualist, Broadway producer Henry B. Harris, the newly rich Margaret “Molly” Brown and others. The clothes, hairstyles, and actions of the movie’s characters convey the time period very well. Pictures of the real Titanic and its passengers show that if the movie’s actors could be transferred back to 1912, they would fit in with the passengers. The opening scenes of the third-class or steerage passengers give the feel of seeing the poor and immigrants looking for a new life in America. The difference in the way the different classes of people were treated by the crew is correctly portrayed in the movie. “The passenger accommodation was spread among the top seven decks, A to G, and was strictly segregated according to class wit the most affluent housed on the upper decks. A descent into the bowels of the liner equated with a descent on the social ladder. The different classes ate in separate dining rooms, read and talked in separate lounges, sm!

ost smell the newness of the ship. The uses of reproductions include the buttons on the crews clothes and even the china used at the meals. The reproductions when combined with the visual effects of the sets convey the luxury of the real Titanic.

ger lists. The characters are fictional but the dress and the manners they portray are keeping with the period. In 1912, there was a definite stratification of class. The dress and mannerisms of the very rich to the very poor are portrayed accurately in the movie. The real Titanic first class passenger list included millionaires such as American Colonel John Jacob Astor, IV, Isidor and Ida Straus, owners of Macy’s Department Store, the Wideners of Philadelphia who made their money in banking and railroads. Other notable passengers include the Countess of Rothes, Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President William Taft, William T. Snead, well-known editor, journalist, and s!

The scenes of the ship and its various rooms in the movie show how the ship looked back in 1912. The furnishings and la

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