The Lost Film of the Titanic (with English Subtitles)
A documentary featuring original 1912 film footage of the Titanic. This film footage was found in a garden shed in England by a 90 year old lady where it had been lying for 86 years. The film includes shots of the Titanic at Belfast before leaving to start the fateful maiden voyage; the ice flows where she hit the berg; the rescue ship Carpathia returning with survivors; women from New York bringing clothing to the docks to comfort survivors; a 1937 radio interview with Charles Herbert Lightoller, the most senior officer to survive and much, much more. We talk to the woman who found the astonishing film footage and also to Millvina Dean, one of only two survivors still alive in Britain (at the time of the filming) who continues to tell her story of the tragedy. Film produced in 1998.
The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New Your City. There were 1,514 people that drowned in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as over one thousand immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere seeking a new life in America. At 2 o'clock in the morning on April 15, 1912, "The Unsinkable Titanic" sunk and today the story lives on.
The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New Your City. There were 1,514 people that drowned in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as over one thousand immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere seeking a new life in America. At 2 o'clock in the morning on April 15, 1912, "The Unsinkable Titanic" sunk and today the story lives on.
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01:25with the only film footage
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01:55He said, "Yeah I have.
01:57"Might come in handy some day."
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02:29in the other.
02:31That's how we met.
02:34His cinema was in one street
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03:07I couldn't find it.
03:08That was on a Saturday.
03:11I went to bed, woke up in the night,
03:15well, half asleep and half awake,
03:17and I heard this voice say,
03:20"It's in the shed, it's in
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03:40I would just move a hand
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03:45I started one end and
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05:06in the Edwardian period.
05:08It shows the Titanic at
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05:26ready for its journey to Southampton
05:28and the fateful maiden voyage.
05:31Whilst in the fitting out birth
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06:33Come quickly distress
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06:52at locating a rescue ship.
06:54These desperate calls for
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07:13He's seen dressed in his summer whites.
07:16As White Star's most senior captain,
07:18he was reputedly the highest
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07:55many would not return to
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08:19of the disaster.
08:21Altogether, the Carpathia
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08:39merged a few years later.
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09:01The Carpathia was sadly lost
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09:55with a journey back to America.
10:01Note the telegram boy
10:02desperate to get his
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10:30to get a glimpse of the survivors
10:32disembarking from Carpathia.
10:34Just a long from here, at pier 59,
10:37a space had been booked for noon
10:39on Saturday, 20th of April
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11:00Indeed, anything to comfort
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11:26There were many heroes in this disaster,
11:29but none more than Captain Rostron
11:31and his crew of the Carpathia.
11:33He was knighted soon
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11:59Their faces tell the story
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12:21as it hit the iceberg.
12:23He was to turn his wheel
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12:48It was his wireless radio invention
12:50that helped to save so many
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13:14She left Halifax on April 17th
13:16for the four day passage to the scene.
13:19The makeshift coffins
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14:09who is still alive.
14:11Millvina, how did you come to
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14:49- The little my mother spoke it,
14:51she never said it was
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15:07- In the years which followed,
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15:31He went up on deck
15:32and said apparently the
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16:01And my mother didn't realise that,
16:03or my smaller brother says,
16:05well she didn't realise
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16:26I remember my mother having
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16:42of the household, creating
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17:07- Titanic, no.
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17:22Although I didn't know him,
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17:39It became much too much.
17:40My phone was ringing all day long.
17:43People wanted me to go
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17:57- Storekeeper Frank Prentice was plucked
18:00from the freezing sea
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18:26had 16 life boats, eight on
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18:51The whole tragedy of the sinking
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undefined:undefinedsuppose they did care a bit,
19:19but I don't know.
19:21We had the designer on board, Andrews,
19:25and we had Bruce Ismay, the chairman,
19:29who lost his job over it
19:32because I think it was
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20:00and all the lifeboats were swung out.
20:03And I might tell you that the distance
20:05from the lifeboats to the
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20:38I climbed.
20:39There were two boards oft
20:43which said keep clear of propeller blades.
20:47And I was hanging onto
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21:07knocked all the wind out of me,
21:10I was very lucky that I didn't
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21:3132 years later, during
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22:00we were firing every minute.
22:03The reason why she didn't
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22:20So it was no fault of his,
22:23but why no notice was taken
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23:29chairman of the White Star Line,
23:31and Lord Pirrie, chairman of the builders,
23:33Harland and Wolff.
23:35Their scheme was to
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24:14(uplifting music)
24:21At over 850 feet in length,
24:24new quays had to be built in Southampton
24:27to accommodate the liners.
24:29In New York, the authorities
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25:50that of a ship destined for disaster.
25:54(melancholy music)
26:08This rare archive film has
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26:43ready for her maiden voyage
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