""Happy Maiden Voyage. "" "Mr and Mrs John Jacob Astor, Stateroom A-56." " Not so fancy as some." "Only bluebells." " Have a look." ""From the woods of Windsor Castle. " Blimey!" "Devonshire cream for Mr Benjamin Guggenheim." "Drop it at the icebox." ""Happy Maiden Voyage, Mr Guggenheim. "" ""Happy Maiden Voyage. " They're in a bloomin' rut!" ""Captain EJ Smith. " Deliver this to the bridge, and hop to it!" ""Mr and Mrs Straus. "" "With this lot we're taking on from the Continent, we'll have 2200 aboard." "It's thick weather in the harbour." "But it'll be clear when you get out." "Cherbourg to New York." " You'll go by the Great Circle route." " Yes." "A southern track." "A fine start, Captain." "This is excellent tea." "As to your running time, we know you'll exercise prudence." "However, the company wouldn't resent a record run." "They're good engines, sir." "Any other instructions?" "With a ship like this, there isn't much to be said, except good luck." " And I wish I could go with you." " Perhaps next time, sir." "Yes." "But that isn't a first sailing." " For you, sir." " I suppose my wife dug up an extra shirt." ""From Henry Evans, Benbecula, The Hebrides. "" "Captain Henry Evans." "I thought he was dead." "It flew from the mainmast of the old Star of Madagascar, nearly 40 years ago." "I joined as an apprentice." "She was a fine sea boat." "Shall we hoist it, sir?" "She's not top issue nowadays." "But up she goes." "Mr Sanderson." "Looks pretty good at that." "The tender is coming out from Cherbourg, sir." "Mr Sanderson will go ashore on the tender." "Will you show him to the gangway?" " Well, Captain, she's all yours." " Goodbye, sir." "Mind your helm!" "Steady as you go." "Julia." "Julia!" " Sandy." "I thought you were in Biarritz." " My beautiful Julia, to these ears," " Biarritz has become a dirty word." " How much did you lose this time?" "Well, these are borrowed trousers." "Where's your husband?" " He didn't come." " Good." "Maybe we can cause a scandal." "I'm afraid I brought the children." "I thought you were taking a house at Deauville." "I changed my mind." "Annette!" "Norman!" "Sandy!" "Quel plaisir de vous voir ici." " She means " Hello"." " Norman." "Good afternoon, sir." "I have to go to the starboard side to see the Marconi aerial." "Stay right here." "I'll try to get a chair." "Oh, John, I'm not the first woman in the world who's going to have a baby." "As far as I'm concerned you are." "Forgive me, Mr Astor, but if you're looking for a chair, perhaps my suitcase would do." " Why, thank you." " Mr Astor, my name's Earl Meeker." " Yes." "Thank you." " I'm looking for the Widener maid." "The maid of Mrs Widener." "Is Mrs Widener's maid around?" "The Wideners?" "I think I saw them over there." "I'm looking for the Widener maid." "I'm looking for the Widener maid." "Widener maid." "I'm looking for the Widener maid." "Well, don't look at me!" "I got so many maids, some of the maids take care of the maids." "Can't say I blame the poor fella." "I just haven't got the kind of a face that goes with a bankroll." "I'll flash my badge and blind a few people." "My name's Maude Young, Montana lead mines." "Seasick?" "That some kind of a cure?" "No, it doesn't cure anything." "No running, no pushing!" "Merci." "I'll pick that up." "Have your boarding tickets ready!" "Passagers, attention!" "La vedette bientot vient de retourner pour prendre les passagers de troisieme classe." "Mettez-vous devant la passerelle." "Ne courez pas, ne vous poussez pas." "Prenez vos billets d'embarquement." "I'm Richard Ward Sturges." "I want to arrange passage." "On the Titanic?" "I'm sorry, sir." "This first trip has been sold out since March." "My congratulations." "However, I must be on that ship." "I'd like to help you, sir, but I'm sorry." " Cuida la ninita." " Cuidadito con el camastro." " No puedo hacer todo, eh?" " Es muy pesado." "Perdon." "You are Spanish?" " We are Basque." " From wine country." "We go to California, Oregon perhaps." "Start grapes, make good wine." " You have land there?" " We buy little piece." "Well, it needn't be such a little piece." "Now, you give me that ticket, and there's enough money here to buy five times as much land." "Madam, there's nothing to discuss." "He can take the next boat and join you in a week or so." "One boat's as good as another." "All right, I can always get someone else." "Now, just stop and think." "How many years would it take you to buy 100 acres?" "Now, go into one of your tribal huddles and convince your wife." "Thank you, Mr..." " Uzcadum." " You've done me a great favour." "Tender alongside." "Prepare for boarding." "Stand by main elevators." "Let every good fellow now fill up his glass, vive la compagnie" "And drink to the health of our glorious class, vive la compagnie" "Vive la, vive la, vive I'amour, vive la, vive la, vive I'amour" "Vive I'amour, vive I'amour, vive la compagnie" "Hey!" "Look at the one in the fur hat." " She's mine." "You get the one way back there." " Don't fight." "There's plenty to go around." "Come on." "I'm the steward assigned to you, lady." "Just call me Giff Rogers." "Carry your bag?" "Shouldn't you be in school somewhere?" "Come on, let's beat the rush." "Drinks and draw for the first watch." "Hurry up, Dan." "Keep it honest, keep it fair." "Come on, come on, come on." "Well, chaps, here we go." " Don't trouble yourselves." "Lucky Lightoller." " Same old story." "Mr Murdoch, Mr Wilde, Dan, remove your bottles." "It's my treat." "It's a pleasure." "All passengers aboard." "Stations for departure." " Very good, Thompson." " Away you go, old man." "And remember, first watch, first man with the ladies." "Fire all boilers!" "Have a go, mates." "Bend your back." " Slow ahead all." " Slow ahead all, sir." " Steady as she goes." " Steady as she goes, Quartermaster." "Steady as she goes, sir." " Full ahead all." " Full ahead all, sir." " Full speed ahead from the bridge, sir." " All right." "Carry on!" "Let her have it!" " Finish stations." "Secure fore and aft." " Finish stations." "Secure fore and aft." "All right, Mr Lightoller." " You may take her to sea." " Aye aye, sir." "Hey, you can't come up here." "This is for first class only." "I'll do my best to behave properly." "Oh, sir." "Mr Sturges." "You don't remember me, but I was on the Queen Alexandria." "Of course." "Your name is Emma, your daughter is married to a dentist in Plymouth." " What's the number of Mrs Sturges' cabin?" " Stateroom A-52/54." "It's right over here." " But they've gone up to dinner now, sir." " Richard!" " John." "Madeleine, my beautiful peacock." " This is a surprise." "Yes, it is." "John, I'd like to borrow a shirt and use your razor." "I'm wearing my complete wardrobe." "I left in a hurry." " Help yourself." "Take whatever you need." " Oh, one more thing." "If you happen to see Julia, I'd rather you didn't tell her I'm aboard." "I'd like to tell her myself." ""Jean Pablo Uzcadum"?" ".. I said, " What do you want him to do?" "Flap his wings?"" "Mama, you should have protested." "It's a really bad table." "There's not a person we know at this end." "Be brave, Annette." "These tragedies happen sometimes in life." "Maitire d'hotel, where is Mrs Sturges' table?" "Mother." "Look!" "Well, well." "This ship is filled with nice people." " Hello, Mr Sturges." " Richard!" "Pommery, 1892." "Mrs Straus, be careful of this old fox." "He has plans." " Father!" "How did you get aboard?" " Norman." "By the back door." "Good to see you, boy." " Hello, Sandy." " Well..." "I can see a bridge game at last." "Mrs Widener." "George." " Annette." " Father." "Julia." "You all look splendid, and this is going to be great fun." " I'll get us a better table tomorrow." " Daddy, I'm so glad you're here." "I hope this doesn't upset your plans, Julia." "But Norman and I can bunk together." "It's wonderful that you could get away." " My family will be pleased." " It makes it a better celebration already." "Can I send a message to Grandfather?" "They have a wireless place upstairs." "Might be a good idea." "Run along." "Nothing now, thank you." "I'll have a sandwich in the bar." "Annette, I wonder if you'd get a wrap for your mother." "Yes, angel." "Something funny about you, Father." "I know." "I've never seen you without a flower before." "Finish your coffee, Julia." "We can walk on deck while I tell you what I think of your performance." "I'm in no hurry to finish my coffee, and not too interested in your opinion." "If I hadn't phoned the house, you'd have got away with it." "Will you explain why you're kidnapping my children?" " I'm not." "I'm rescuing them." " From what?" " From you." " That was my guess." "This family reunion story is a deliberate trick to get them away." "It is." "And they're never going back." "They're going to stop being rootless hotel children." " What's wrong with hotels?" " Oh, Richard, I..." "Richard, please try to see this sanely." "We're Americans." "We belong in America." "And yet for years we've been galloping all over Europe to be in the proper places." "Winter in St Moritz, Deauville in season, summer in..." "What's the use?" "The same silly calendar, year after year." " Look at Annette." " I have, with great pride." "She's entertaining, she's discriminating, she has grace and style." "She's an arrogant little prig." "So you've chosen to drag her back to the glories of Mackinac, Michigan." "Any town in any state becomes comic on your lips." "But that's where she's going." "To a big, ugly, pleasant house with the scent of lilacs around it." "Oh, don't worry." "She won't turn out dowdy." "She'll meet dozens of nice boys." "I have something better in mind for her than being tied down to a lumber salesman." "I know what you have in mind." "I've seen a great many international marriages, but never a happy one." "I don't want to seem over-eager, but, uh, could we...?" "Not tonight, Sandy, thank you." "More coffee, Julia?" "Do you think Annette will be grateful to you for hauling her into the wilderness?" "In time." "And as for Norman, I can only tell you this:" "there's not going to be a carriage waiting for him at 9am every morning." "From now on, he's going to walk to school." "Hm." "I should have anticipated this." "20 years ago, I made the mistake of thinking I could civilise a girl who bought her hats out of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." "I was wrong." "And don't think I haven't had my share of regrets." "One thing, Richard." "You've... you've always been honest." "Will this one do?" "Where's Father?" "Never mind." "It's bedtime." "Come on." "It's been a long day." "I sent the wireless, sir." "Good." "Well..." " One game of checkers before we turn in?" " Yes, sir." "No more sea gulls." "It's a mystery, it is." "Take all the fish in the sea." "There must be millions." "And you don't feel friendly towards a single one." "But put a bird in the sky, and you feel like old chums." "Listen, lad." "This'll teach you what kind of a boat you're working on." ""Mr James J Hays, on board the Titanic. "" "When he gets to New York, he'll have a private train waiting for him." " That's handy." "No waiting for a seat." " " Mr Benjamin Guggenheim. "" ""Countess of Rothes." "Lady Duff Gordon." "Colonel Archibald Butts. "" "The ship I was on before, all we got was weather reports." "Yes, sir?" "A form, please." " Guess I broke the pencil." " Perhaps I could take it down for you." "No, no, no." "I'll do it myself." "Um..." "Maybe if you would..." "It's to my brother." "It's Mr Frank Healey, 689 Boylston Street, Boston." "I am coming home." "I think you should advise the family now that last week the authorities in Rome..." ""Authorities in Rome... "" ".. authorities in Rome..." " I've got that, sir." " Oh." "Well, then say, uh..." "I'll be back later." "The bar doesn't open till 11:30." "It's the rule on British ships, sir." "I forgot." " A cup of bouillon, sir?" " No, thank you." "He's not interested." "That poor fella had no dinner last night and no breakfast this morning." " What ails him?" " I've seen that look before." " He's a runaway." " From what?" "Some woman?" "No." "He's running too fast for that." " What's the commotion?" " Where I come from, this'd be a revival meeting or a crap game." "Get your tickets for the anchor pool." "Ten dollars gives you a chance to win 600." "Wait a minute." "I wanna get in on this." "How do you play this?" "Draw a number." "If it corresponds to the minute we drop anchor, you win." "Five." "Don't be shy there, Mr Straus." "Draw a good one." "You draw, Mama." " What's our lucky number, dear?" " Seventeen." "Hey, Tom." "Here." "You get it, will you?" "Morning." "They're selling tickets on the anchor pool down there." " Oh?" " Yes." "I thought you didn't notice." " Maybe I could get one for you." " No, thank you." "I'm not much of a gambler." " How about some soup?" "Nice and hot." " Thank you." "I just had some." "Oh, this is for Purdue." "It's a college out in Indiana." " Everybody thinks it's Princeton." " I see." "Well, to answer your question, her name is Annette, she's going on 18," " and I think she's very pretty too." " Well, now that you brought it up," "I think I kinda got off on the wrong foot with her." "When I asked her if I could sit next to her, she said she'd rather stand all the way to New York." " What's your name?" " Giff Rogers." "Gifford is a family name." "My mother said one of us had to be called Gifford." "Sorry." "I always get friendly, pop off the bat." " Sit down." " I'm on the tennis team." "The athletic association shot us over to play Oxford during Easter." "We lost every match." " Will she be at the dance tonight?" " She likes music." "I'd better get my blue suit pressed." "Still the same." "Young men hurrying to get their blue suits pressed." "Mrs Sturges, I bet I can count on you to put in a good word for me." ""When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say," ""'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away;" ""'Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free. '" ""But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me." ""When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again," ""'T he heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain;" ""'T is paid with sighs aplenty And sold for endless rue. " '" "That's pretty." "But do you believe it?" "I can't answer for myself, but if I were a tennis player from Purdue," "I wouldn't believe it, not a single word." "A fine, healthy bumpkin." "Are you breaking ground for Annette?" "You're up early." "I had to scratch around for clothes." "Not a bad shop." "They have everything." " Dinnerjackets, I trust." " Naturally." "It'll be ready tonight." "So..." "life can go on." "Good morning, Annette." "I thought you were a pot of coffee." "What time is it?" "Eleven o'clock." "A brand-new day that's never been touched." "I'm absolutely famished." "Your brother never picks up anything." "Where is he?" "Where's my breakfast?" "I sent him to order it half an hour ago." "Beautiful." "Lanvin?" "Mm-hm." " This one Lucille, I imagine." " Yes, angel." "Your mother seems to have packed everything." "Of course, some of them will be a little out of place in Mackinac." "Still, plenty of practical things." "What, only high heels?" "You'll have to have something to walk in." "As soon as we arrive, you ought to buy her some of those flat shoes." ""Ground grippers", I believe." "She'll need lots of things." "That'd be a waste of money forjust a short visit." "Let's not talk about that now." "Get up, Annette." "As your mother has said, it's a brand-new day." "Yes?" "Ah." "Thank you, Emma." "Those cheeks of yours bloom in the salt air." " Oh, Mr Sturges." " Annette?" "There we are." " May I bone your kipper, mademoiselle?" " Yes, angel." " Is today the 12th or the 13th?" " The 13th." "They should just be sitting down to luncheon in that extraordinary room overlooking the fountains, the arthritic old princess under the finest crystal chandelier in Europe, and Mr Paderewski complaining about the draught." "And at the end of the table, one young man next to an empty chair with a tear in his eye." "A crystal tear is my guess." "What excuse did you give him, Annette?" "I dropped him a note." " Let's go." " A note?" "Was I supposed to be somewhere?" "It's perfectly all right if your mother explained it to them." "See you later." " Wait." "Explain it to me." " What's one party more or less?" "Julia, a luncheon at the Metternichs' is not exactly a wiener roast." "Was there some reason, Mother, I wasn't told I was invited?" "Your mother's a sensible woman." "She probably felt something might come of it, some involvement with the young master." "To be perfectly frank, I was afraid." "He's an arrogant little toad." "He does look a little like a toad." "But he's a highly eligible toad." "Not many young men are related to both the Metternichs and the Rothschilds." "I don't think he looks like a toad." "And I see no reason why we couldn't have left a week later." "Annette, mind your manners." "It wasn't a question of a week or two weeks." "This was as good a time as any to bow out." " " Bow out"?" " Yes, I'm afraid so." "Ah, adieu, great world." "What your father is saying is that I'm taking you home for good." "I won't see an arranged marriage, or you jumping from title to title the rest of your life." "Father, I want to ask you one question:" "do you approve of all this?" "Annette, I adore you, you know that." "Are you going to stay in Michigan for good?" "I'm a hopeless case, far too old to alter my preferences now." " When are you going back?" " By the next boat." "Whenever you go, I go with you." "As for you, Mother, I love you very much, but my address is Paris, France." "Thank you, Richard." "You were most helpful." "Now you see why I wanted to steal a little more time." "Please, Julia, let's not bicker, since there's no love lost between us." "That's the tragic part, Richard." "There's been so much love lost between us." " Hurry up!" "We have our first match at 11:30." " If it's not asking too much, what match?" " The shuffleboard tournament." "I entered us." " Good." "We're the team to beat." "I'm going to dress for dinner." "Alter course at ten o'clock." "It's posted in the chart house." "What's this note, " binoculars"?" " It's Murdoch, sir." "We're shy on binoculars." " Oh." "How come?" "I don't know, sir." "We've got enough for the bridge." "The lookouts and the crow's nest are doing without." "Well, make up a requisition." "We'll pick up some in New York." " It's very nice material." " It's a beautiful suit." "I said it was nice material." "You did a fastjob." "Thank you." "I'd better have a handkerchief." "Norman, it's time for us to pick up our ladies." " Norman?" " Yes, sir?" "Would it be all right if I ate in the cabin tonight?" "We're dining at the captain's table." "That's just it, sir." "I'd feel out of place." "There's something bothering you." "What is it?" "It's nothing, sir." "Is this what's worrying you?" "There are two other boys on this ship." "They're an inch shorter than I am, and they have long trousers." "You're a worthless scamp." "You've been growing behind my back." "Mr Webster, this is no way to let a young man walk out of your shop." " You'll have to put in some more overtime." " It's a pleasure, sir." " Your fitting, Mr Sturges." " Thank you, sir." "Mother, could you help me with this snap?" "If you're busy, I can call the stewardess." "That won't be necessary." " I love those earrings on you." " Thank you." "Are we going to cross the entire ocean in polite silence?" "I'd be very happy to chatter like a magpie if I could think of a single word to say." "Come in." " Well, are we ready?" " Yes, angel." " You look beautiful." " I'm glad you're pleased." "Norman's at the tailor's." "Will you pick him up?" " I don't want to go into dinner with him." " Then you can trail at a respectful distance." " We'll all meet at the captain's table." " Yes, angel." "Well, Julia, I imagine after a few hours we've reached the same conclusion." "We scream, we shout, we hurt each other, but we calm down." "Things aren't so bad." "They never are for you." "You always win." "I don't regard this as a victory." "It's an adjustment." "Before you go down, you'd better know how things are going to be." "I've given up on Annette." "Her standards will always be the chic club, the royal enclosure, and that's her decision, she's almost of age." "But Norman is still a child." "I'm not taking any chances with him." "He stays in America." "Now, wait a minute, Julia." "What is this all about?" "I should think it would be perfectly clear." "I won't see Norman thrown away." "He stays with me." "And if you try to interfere, I'll be as common as you think I am." "I'll fight you tooth and nail." "I'll take you to the courts!" " Could you be common in a lower voice?" " I'll say it in any tone you want." "But that's the way it's going to be!" "You crazy woman." "You're talking about the most important thing in my life." " I have plans for Norman." " That he should grow up to be you?" "Possibly." "I'm satisfied." "Is it so extraordinary that I should want to have some portion of myself survive?" "Some portion of your...?" "Oh, yes, I forgot." "The best-dressed man of his day." "That's what they're going to write on your tombstone." "But I won't have it for Norman." "He stays with me!" "My dear Julia, I've been around enough bridge tables to recognise someone who is holding a high trump." "Play it now, if you're going to." "We'll discuss it later." "Now!" " All right, Richard." "One question first?" " If it's about Norman, you know the answer." "No court in the world, no power under heaven can force me to give up my son." "He is not your son." "All I propose, Mr Straus, is a small game at small stakes." "Don't act as if I were on a banana boat." "I prefer good bridge and poverty." "Sounds rather like St Francis, doesn't it?" " Mr Sturges." "Someone's looking for you." " Richard, this young man..." "At the door there's a woman." "Some name like " Uzcadum"." "She's French, I guess." " Will you excuse me a moment, Captain?" " I believe we've all finished." "Do you expect to be long in New York, Mrs Astor?" "Your mother thought you might like to dance tonight." "She and I got to be very good friends." "I'm afraid I forgot to mention you, Mr Rogers." "We were talking about something else." "If Mr Rogers would like a dance, I'd be delighted." "You would?" " The dance floor is this way, isn't it?" " This is great." "And the band's slick." " Wait till you meet the other fellows." " We're going to have one dance." "Just one?" "I was quite horrid to my mother today." "If I can please her by dancing with you..." " As I said before, I'd be delighted." " OK." "What's the difference?" "If you get a good omelette, who cares whether the chicken likes you or not?" "Keep going." "Right." "Now, sign this too." " Both of them." " I still say not right to sign this." " I am not head of family..." " Please, Mrs Uzcadum." "Do me a favour, and stop worrying." "Here, sign." "Now, you keep these papers." "I'll send the steward tomorrow." "Say, uh... we're getting up a bridge game." "Sandy Comstock tells me you're a player from away back." "Yes." "You need a topcoat, Richard." "It's grown cold." "Yes, it has." "The Labrador Current." "I wonder if you'd tell me, Julia." "Have I been the laughing stock of our friends all these years?" " Does everybody know?" " No one except you and me." "Aren't you forgetting at least one other person?" "Not even he." "I never saw him again." "What very good manners." "There's no way for me to make it seem right." "It happened after one of those endless rows and private humiliations, in the days before you made me over into your image." "One of the summers we had the beach house." "I'd left a party because I knew I'd cry if there was one more reference made to my gaucherie, to the... to the dress I had chosen to wear." "On the beach by our cottage a young man was skipping stones across the water." "He assured me he was not a burglar, and we began to talk." "He said something admiring to me when I needed it most, a pure, sweet, unsolicited compliment." "I..." "I took his face in my hands, and kissed him out of gratitude." "You... you needn't trouble yourself as to who he was, except that he was a much nicer person than you or I." "I think I understand." "From now on, Norman belongs to you." "I shall make no claim." "Both of you will be taken care of decently." "But I don't want to see him or hear from him or... be remembered by him." " Is that really necessary?" " I'm afraid it is." "As you pointed out, Norman and I began as strangers." "So be it." "Oh, my poor Richard." "How you hate me." "And for the wrong reasons." "Not because I committed an offence against common decency, but because Norman isn't an elegant extension of Richard Ward Sturges." "For you, what happened isn't a mortal sin." "It is an inexcusable breach of etiquette." "Thank you, Julia." "I stand reproved." "Good evening, Mr..." "Harry?" "Thank you." " I see you have your game." " You're in it." " Mr Guggenheim's keeping the seat warm." " Uh, two no trump." "A heart bid from there." "You can only play one more rubber, Mr Straus." "Whenever you feel like stopping, I can take over, sir." " My trick." " Do you mind?" "Aldebaran... you lonely star." "Look around at the others." "The friendly Pleiades are better off." "There's seven of 'em." "No, wait." "Let me count." "Answer up for the roll call." "There's four... six... seven." "They're all there." "Have you ever noticed, my dear lady, that the stars are never late?" "They made you cry." "Or wasn't it the stars?" "Yes." "Yes, yes, I..." "I'm drunk." "I..." "I'm always two things:" "I'm drunk, and I'm helpful." " Thank you, I don't need any help." " Then you're very, very unique." ""Very unique"." "It's a grammatical error." ""Unique" stands by itself." "Are you hurt?" "I'm all right." "If, uh... you would just be so kind as to point me toward the bar." "You're going to your cabin." "What number is it?" " My dear, unique lady, I am going to the bar." " No, you're not." "Where is the key to your cabin?" " I'll send in the ship's doctor." " No, no, no, no." "Let him sleep." "Got some, uh, spirits of ammonia over here." "I'll get it." "Sit down." "Take this." "Good night." " Thank you for being so generous." " That's all right." "Just go to bed." "You know what I mean." "Thank you for not mentioning my... strange luggage." " Are you a minister?" " Priest." "Or, rather, I was until last week." "At three o'clock on April 8th, my duties, my privileges as a servant of God, were formally terminated." "It was this." "You know why I started - at least, the reason I gave myself?" "A priest in a slum parish knows all the sadness of the world." "He needs support." "So I used to lean on a little Hennessy's." "Just a little at first." "People said, " Well, that's only natural." "The young father has a bad cold. "" "It got so I used to have those colds in the middle of July, lots of 'em." "I can hear the bishop's voice now:" ""Do you prefer that stuff to your God?"" "Well, God and I knew better, but I couldn't stop, because I had a private devil all my own." "In Rome, they were very kind, but they were very final." "I was sacked and prayed for, and sent off in the morning." "How do you cover that in ten words in a wireless to a family that loved you and sacrificed for you?" "You see, my dear lady, you're not the only one who walks in trouble." "Good night." "Can I have some eggs, please?" "Three minutes." "How's topside?" "Is that bridge game still going on?" " I don't think they're ever gonna stop." " Well, time to relieve the chief." "Be careful of that coffee." "It can stand up and walk!" " Morning, Chief." "Ready to relieve." " Good morning." "Steering south 71 west, speed 21 knots." " 21?" "Who ordered the increase?" " The captain." "Jackson!" "Take over a moment." "I must speak to the captain." "Holy, holy, holy" "Though the darkness hide thee" "Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see" "Only thou art holy" "There is none beside thee" "Perfect in power" "In love and purity" "Amen" "The Lord bless us, and keep us." "The Lord make his face to shine upon us, and be gracious unto us." "The Lord lift up his countenance upon us, and give us peace, now and for evermore." "Amen." " Good morning." " Good morning, Captain." " Lovely day, isn't it?" " Excuse me, sir." "There's an iceberg warning posted in the chart house." " Yes, I know." "I put it there." " I just wondered about our speed, sir." "It's a clear sea, and our track takes us south of the reported ice field." " Anything else?" " No, sir." "Mr and Mrs Astor, I should like you to meet our second officer, Mr Lightoller." "He's worried about our ship." "I remember a man like that in the old days." "Always afraid we were carrying too much sail." "But the wind never did us any harm." " I like your spirit, Mr Lightoller." " Thank you, sir." "All right if I skip now?" "Big match coming up." "Yes, dear." "I believe that's your trick, Widener." "Are you leaving it there to hatch?" "Sorry, Sturges." "I'm knocked out." "It's almost 10:30, Father." "We should have a warm-up." "You'll have to find someone else." "I'm busy." " Yes, sir." " An even hundred rubber." " That's enough for me." " I guess it's time for us all to quit." "I see no reason to stop." "We'll get a fourth." "I'll be glad to fill in, if it's all right with everybody." "Please do." "Cut." "The name's Meeker." "Earl Meeker." "All right, let's have some more coffee and double the stakes." " How much do I owe?" " We'll let you know." "Excuse me, Father." "Maybe I could have the match postponed..." "I told you I'm not interested in the match." "Find someone else!" "Yes, sir." " Spade." " Pass." "Two hearts." "He certainly clouded up." "Well, a word'll do it faster than a hickory stick anytime." "A spade." "Two hearts." "Your call." "I pass." " Morning." " Hello." "I guess it's of no importance, but I wanted to tell you something about last night." "No need to." "You danced with me four times." "That's more than I figured on." "No, I mean the way I walked off without saying anything." "It wasn't very adult of me, and I believe in being adult." "Just forget it." "You did your bit, only I kind of figured you were having a good time." " To be frank, I was." " You left me in the middle of the floor." "I didn't know what to do when the orchestra started playing that funny dance." " The Navajo Rag?" " That's the one." " I'd never heard it before..." " Never heard it?" "Where have you been?" "Locked up?" "Why, that's the hottestjig the kids do." "Yes, I noticed those girls with your friends." "They seemed to, well... shake automatically." " Especially the pretty one with the dark hair." " Oh, she's a glue-foot." "Come here." "I'll show you how to do it." "Now, look." "All you have to do is this." "There's a dance they do on the reservation" "It's a dip and a glide and a hesitation" "Then you grab your squaw and drag" "They call it the Navajo Rag" "Ho, ho-ho, that Navajo Rag" "What a rag, what a rag, what a rag" "Ho, ho-ho, that Navajo Rag" "That drag, that drag, that drag" "Shake your moccasins and roll your eye" "Tear my blanket, make my feathers fly" "Whirl me" "Twirl me" "Whirl me, twirl me to that Navajo Rag" "If we're going to be stared at, I think we should do this to real music." "Whenever there's another dance, will you ask me?" "Goodbye, gentlemen." "Bye, Giff." "Bye." "Yee-hoo!" " Three spades." " Double." "Content." "Why must the British announce dinner as if it were a cavalry charge?" " Shall we break?" " Just when I'm getting some good cards?" "Your grief has been noted." "We'll break later." "That's what you said about luncheon." "By the time we dock, I'm gonna be one long loaf of liverwurst." "Sorry, partner." "Not much there." " Oh, Harry." " Yes, sir?" " Is the water still hot?" " I just brought it, sir." "Is it necessary to lurk in dark corners?" "I've come to ask you to have dinner with the children." "What I really mean is to have dinner with Norman." "Don't worry, you won't have to put up with me." "I'll eat in the cabin." "Oh, please, Richard." "Don't take it out on him." "He's too young to be punished without any explanation." "Then give him the explanation." "Richard, you can't mean that." "Richard, it doesn't concern him." "It's an issue between you and me." "Norman adores you." "You're the man he's loved since the moment he opened his eyes." "Can't you, for the few days we're still together, at least show him the courtesy you would show a... a head waiter?" "I'm sorry, Julia." "You're asking me to do something which involves character." "As you have pointed out, I am not a man of character." "Please, Richard." "Please." "You're in my light, Julia." "We made it, partner." "Three spades, doubled." "Aren't we the lucky ones?" " How long will it take to get to Boston?" " Seven or eight hours, sir." "There's a lot of traffic going out." "Seems like when we get to New York, everybody's... planning to have a party." "Yes, sir, about seven or eight hours." "Well, I guess that'll be soon enough." "That'll be 11 shillings, sir." "Shall I bill it to your cabin?" " Yes, sir?" " What time did this message come in?" "Phillips handled that one, sir." "He's at dinner." "Check your log." "This morning we got an iceberg warning from the Baltic." "Half an hour ago, this one from the Caronia was delivered." " It came in at 7:40." " But it's dated April 12th, two days ago." " Why the delay?" " Maybe something to do with transmission." "We got it half an hour ago and sent it straight to the bridge." " Well, what did they say?" " Held up at the other end, sir." "Hello, Chief." "Thought you'd be having dinner." "Finished, sir." "Where's your plot on that iceberg reported by the Baltic?" "Right here, sir." "Ahead, and slightly north of our track." "We should sight it about 8am." "Hm." "Here's another report from the Caronia." "Plot it in, will you?" "42 north, 49-50 west." "That would put it up here, sir." "But the Caronia report was filed two days ago." "That'd be about right." "There's a strong southerly drift." "A large enough berg could have moved down there, almost where the Baltic sighted it." " Do you want to alter course, sir?" " What's the weather forecast?" "Clear and calm." "Oh, I don't think so." "No need to alter course yet." "I'll be on the bridge during the morning watch." "Shouldn't be hard to spot in daylight." "Mr Murdoch?" "I thought I'd let you know." "The captain will be topside for the morning watch." "Night order book as is." " We're going to stay at 22 knots?" " Why not?" "At 30, we couldn't reach that berg before daylight." "That's true." "Not this one." "But what if these are two different icebergs?" "Oh, Amherst, brave Amherst" "'T was a name known to fame in days of yore" "May it ever be glorious" "Till the sun shall climb the heavens no more" "Boh-boh-boh-bom" "Boh-boh-boh-bom" "Oh, Lord Jeffrey Amherst was a soldier of the king" "And he came from across the sea" "To the Frenchmen and the Indians he didn't do a thing" "In the wilds of this wild country" "In the wilds of this wild country" "And for his royal majesty he fought with all his might" "He was a soldier loyal and true" "And he conquered all of the enemies that came within his sight" "And he looked around for more when he was through" "Oh, Amherst, brave Amherst" "'T was a name known to fame in days of yore" "May it ever be glorious" "Till the sun shall climb the heavens no more" "Should be seeing gulls by morning." "The birds of the Grand Banks fair chilled with courage." "Overtrumped." "Never send a baby to buy the beer." "Far above Cayuga's waters" "With its waves of blue" "Stands our noble alma mater" "Glorious to view" "Lift the chorus, speed it homeward" "Loud her praises tell" "Hail to thee, O alma mater" "Hail, all hail, Cornell" "Far above the busy humming" "Of the bustling town" "Reared against the arch of heaven" "Looks she proudly down" "Lift the chorus, speed it homeward" "Loud her praises tell" "What a lot of songs they know." "It's only a few." "There must be hundreds more." " Hail, all hail, Cornell" " Fifty, anyway." "Jesus Mary!" "Iceberg, dead ahead!" "Iceberg, dead ahead, sir!" "Hard a-starboard!" "Full speed astern!" "Hard a-starboard, sir." "Helm hard a-starboard, sir." "Keep the helm hard over." "We're going to clear." "For once again comes Williams' day" "Yard by yard we'll fight our way" "Through Amherst's line" "Every man in every play" "Striving all the time" "Cheer on cheer will rend the air" "All behind our men" "Iceberg, sir." "We must have picked up a spur." "It's over there." "We must have come close." "Did we hit it?" "No, sir." "It hit us." "No damage above the waterline, sir, but the forepeak is flooded to the orlop deck." "Water in the fireman's passage port side." "Additional damage abaft of bulkhead B." "Damage that far aft?" "Check again." "All right, I'll tell him." "We're taking water in number 1, 2 and 3 holds, and number 5 and 6 boiler rooms." " Can they shore up?" " No, sir." "Ripped us like a tin opener." "Tell the chief engineer to start the forward pumps." "Wilde." "Start the forward pumps!" "Order all hands to stations." "Passengers and crew don lifejackets." "Prepare to lower away all boats." "Captain Smith?" "Break off traffic, and get him up." "Stand by to send out a CQD to all vessels." " I'll send you the position." " CQD, sir?" "That's Full Distress." "We've struck an iceberg." "We're going down." " Captain, I want to know what's happening." " There's been some underwater damage." " You can trust me, Captain." "Is it critical?" " Give us a hand with this cover!" "Over here, mate!" "Call up boat crew six!" "To be on the safe side, we're clearing away the boats." "Captain, I will not be put off." "Is this ship going to sink?" "She is." "I'm ordering all women and children into the boats." "As for the rest of us..." "perhaps some vessel can get to us in time." "Captain Smith, in other words, there aren't enough lifeboats for the men." "All passengers go to their cabins and put on life jackets." "There is no cause for alarm." "You'll find life jackets in your wardrobe." "Please proceed to your cabins immediately." "Put on your life jackets and proceed to the promenade deck via the after ladder." "Did you hear what happened?" "We ran into an iceberg, and none of us even saw it." "I knew there was something." "Norman, get dressed." "Please relax." "I've talked to the captain." "There was a collision of sorts." "They evidently felt they needed to break the monotony." " Is there any danger?" " Danger?" "On a ship like this?" "Nonsense." "However, we have to follow instructions." "Now, put on warm things, everybody - comfortable, but as becoming as possible." "Annette, get the otherjackets from in there." "It might be a good idea to bring blankets." "It may be chilly in the lifeboats." "Lifeboats?" "And you say there's no danger?" "Julia, I'm afraid you don't understand the corporate mind." "Steamship companies serve the public." "To prove they're on the job, they like to inconvenience people." "Here, Julia." "Help Norman." "I imagine they'll row us out a few hundred yards while they repair the damage." "All right, Julia." "We're assigned to number six lifeboat." "Remember, number six." "Well, I believe we're ready." "Norman, you'd better take these." "Catch." "Father?" "Haven't you forgotten something too?" "So I have." "I pay $1,000 to ride in the greatest ship ever built, and then somebody pokes a hole in it." "Why don't they patch it up?" "Don't walk out on me." "I was just getting some good cards." "We're going on with that game." "Don't worry, Mrs Young." "When we get back, the cards will still be warm." "Put on thatjacket, please!" "Don't push, please!" "Don't push, please!" " Annette!" "Annette!" " Tie on thatjacket, sir, please." "Tie yours up, sir." "Take it quietly, madam." "Don't push, please." "Don't push!" "Number four boat, swing out." "Number two crew, see your boat's clear of the ship's side before you lower away." " There's nobody to man this boat." " There's a crew on its way up." "Keep your people together." "Find your proper boat!" "Them to starboard's odd, them to port's even." " Is there any way I can help, sir?" " You can see that this passage is kept clear." "Stand back, everybody, and keep together!" "Are all your people with you?" "Yes, they're all here." "On second thought, I have some stragglers." " Wait here." "I'll be back shortly." " You can't leave us now." "I'll be back." "Can you use your influence?" "Do you know what's going on?" " Stand back!" "Keep the passage clear." " You're Mrs Sturges?" "They say it's nothing, but they're lying." "And now somebody says there aren't enough lifeboats for the men." "Richard!" "I see they got you into one of those." "This doesn't fit." " I may need you." " It can't be that bad." "I'm afraid it is." "We may be having sand for supper tonight." "Come on." "Leave everything behind!" "Go up by the after deck." "Come on!" "Please, put on your life belts!" "Go up by the after deck!" " You must take a life belt." " Can't you get some order here?" "They won't go." "We can't make them understand." "Give me a try here." "Attenzione tutti!" "Mrs Uzcadum..." " Get to your feet!" " No, no." "Safer place." "I am at the moment the head of this family." "Now, get up!" "Non correte!" "Andate adesso alla scala di fronte." "Le donne e i bambini per primi." "La scala di fronte..." "Remain on this deck." "The boats will be lowered down." "I don't think it's so serious." "We'll get help." "I think so too." "I'll bet there are practically seven or eight ships coming right now." "But, anyway, just in case we get on different boats and you get to New York first..." " would you mind calling home for me?" " Of course not." "They'll be worried." "There's just Jackie - that's my kid sister." "You can tell her I didn't win any medal, but that I bought her a pocketbook instead." " With beads on it." " Keep your falls clear!" " It was supposed to get there for Easter." " You'll be there to tell her, Giff." " You're just as apt to be there before me." " Oh, sure." "But even if not, there's one thing I want you to know." "I don't think you'll believe it." "But I wouldn't have missed this boat trip, not for anything." "Officer." "Officer, have you room here for four more?" " I think so." "Are they assigned to this boat?" " They are now." "Go ahead, Mrs Uzcadum." "Here's a nice lady." "She'll take care of you." " Bon voyage, Madeleine, my dear." " Bless you, Richard." "Stand back there." " Hop in for you, lad." " Take a turn on that line!" "Keep your falls clear!" "Keep your falls clear!" " Some loose ends to take care of, Julia." " Yes, I saw." "They're loading your lifeboat." "I'd better go to my own." "It's on the other side." "It will be a long walk, Richard, but... thank you for lying." "I know you're trying to make it easy for us." "This way is easier for me, too." "Oh, Richard, where did we miss out on each other?" "I..." "I beg your pardon, sir." "I put you down as a useless man, somebody to lead a cotillion." "After all, it was my major talent." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Sorry about everything." "We have no time to catalogue our regrets." "All we can do is pretend 20 years didn't happen." "It's June again." "You're walking under some elm trees in a white muslin dress." "The loveliest creature I ever laid eyes on." "That summer, when I asked you to marry me," "I pledged my eternal devotion." "I would consider it a great favour, Julia, if you would accept a restatement of that pledge." " Ohh!" " Number six boat ready to lower away." "Please, madam." "Go ahead, my dear." "Hurry up!" "Number six boat ready to lower away!" "Stand by your falls!" "Come along, Annette." " Help your sister, Norman." " Shouldn't I go on the boat with you?" " The officer put you here, didn't he?" " Yes, sir." "You know the rules." "A good soldier obeys orders." " Yes, sir." " Au revoir, my pet." "You look fat and funny in those life jackets, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee." "Numbers four and six lifeboats, stand by to lower away." "All passengers to the promenade deck." "Stand back, everybody, and keep together!" "Attention!" "Attention, all able-bodied men!" "We need your help forward and aft, as quickly as you can, please!" "Repairers, get over here at once." "Over here!" "All right, men." "This way." "Keep moving." "Keep moving." "Remain on this deck." "The boats will be lowered down." " Stand back!" " All right, give me one of them paddles." "Over here, mates!" "Lend a hand." "She's stuck!" "I want some of you men on the end of this rope, the rest of you over on the other one." "All women and children for lifeboat number six, fasten your lifebelts, please." "Please see that your lifebelts are fastened." "Fasten your life jacket, madam." " I'm sorry, ma'am." "She's loaded." " Where will I go, Officer?" "Well, there may be another boat forward." "There's no room in this." "All right, now, don't crowd." "Stay in there." "Here's a space." "All right, lower away." "Where's Norman?" "Norman?" "Norman!" "He gave a woman up front his seat." "Norman!" "Norman!" "There's a damn problem." "We're stuck in the block." "She won't clear." "Get a marlinespike." "We'll never do it this way." "Number ten is farther aft, sir." "Seaman on number four line, haul away." "From the Carpathia, sir." ""We are coming full speed. 41 degrees 30 minutes north, 49 degrees 21 minutes west. "" "Give me their position again." "41 degrees 30 north, 49 degrees 21 west." "Have Mr Lightoller pass the word to the lifeboats." "Steer east-southeast." "They'll be picked up by dawn." "We're clear, Officer." "I think we have her repaired." " Can you still keep up steam?" " We'll try, sir." "We need power for the Marconi instrument." "And I want to keep the lights burning." "If there's a ship coming, she has to see us." "Right, sir." "I presume you know you may not make it out of here." " Yes, sir." "That's the way of it sometimes." " Good luck." "I see you made it, Mr Meeker." "Oh, Norman." "Oh, my little boy." " Steward!" "Mr Sturges." "Have you seen him?" " No, I haven't." "Number seven coxswain to starboard." "Please sit down when you get in the boat." "Please keep still." "Fasten your life jacket, please, ma'am." "Number three boiler room flooded." "We're flooded to the after coal bunker, sir." "The bulkheads are about to go." "We're finished when the water hits the main boilers." "Order all hands up from below." "Their duty's done." " Yes, sir." " Mr McDermott's waiting amidships, sir." " What?" " Mr McDermott, sir." "Oh..." "Yes." " You sent for us, sir?" " Yes." "I think it might help if you'd play." "Yes, sir." ""Londonderry Air"." "Please sit down the moment you get in the boat." "Please sit down when you get in the boat." "Take your places, please." "And keep still." "Keep your hands on the inside!" "Mind your head." " All right, Mrs Straus." " No, please." " Mrs Straus, this is the last lifeboat." " Please, sir." "I'm a very old lady." "I've been with Mr Straus most of my life." "I will not leave him now." "All right, ma'am." "Right, slack away your breast lines." "Keep your hands inside the boat!" "Please sit still in the boat." "Fasten your life jacket there!" "Lower away!" "Look out!" "She's gonna blow!" "Don't go in!" "The starboard boiler's gone, and the port one's about to go!" " Are there men in there?" " A few, pinned under the rig." " For God's sake, mister, don't go in there!" " For God's sake, I am going in." "Norman." "Norman!" "What's happened?" "What are you doing here?" " I was afraid I couldn't find you, sir." " Come with me." "On the lower decks!" "It won't do any good to jump." "The water's near freezing!" "Move aft!" "Move..." "Officer, this boy's still aboard." "Where are they loading?" "Sorry, sir." "All the lifeboats have gone." "Well, Norman..." "I didn't count on this." "All the other men were staying." "I thought perhaps I should too." "I'm wearing long trousers, sir." "I guess long trousers is enough to prove you're a man." "Just the same, you're sore at me for coming back, aren't you, sir?" "Yes, I'm sore at you - the way I've always been sore at those fool drummer boys who stayed on to play " Last Retreat"." "I..." "I thought maybe we could make a swim of it, together." "Well..." "Whatever happens..." "I love you very much." "I've been proud of you every day of your life, never as much as at this moment." "I feel tall as a mountain." "Mr Sturges?" "There's a boy up forward looking for you, sir." "Yes, Harry, I found him." "He's my son." "She won't spark." "We're finished, mate." "Mr Jackson, you will make the last entry in the log and secure." "At this hour, all wireless communication broken off, all lifeboats manned and lowered away..." "This vessel sinking hard by the bow." "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer to thee" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer to thee" "E'en though it be a cross" "That raiseth me" "Still all my song shall be" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer to thee" "Though like the wanderer" "The sun gone down" "Darkness be over me" "My rest a stone" "Yet in my dreams I'd be" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer to thee" "Yet in my dreams I'd be" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer..." "Thus, on April 15th, 1912, at 0220 hours, as the passengers and crew sang a Welsh hymn," "RMS " Titanic" passed from the British registry." "Seven hundred and twelve people, in 19 lifeboats, survived." "Nearer, my God, to thee" "Nearer to thee" "Visiontext Subtitles:" "Paul Murray" "ENGLISH SDH" "Today it seems as if Titanic is everywhere." "Her image has grown into a pop culture icon, and her story has inspired fanaticism the world over." "Titanic has appeared in every form of mass media of the 20th century, from books, songs, plays and CD-ROMs, to the most successful film of all time." "It's as if she never left our imagination." "From the moment she disappeared beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic, her story has captivated the public as no event in history." "From the first headlines to the earliest films," "Titanic is a part of our collective consciousness, and no generation has been immune to her power." "It is a story that has been reinvented as everything from melodrama, to Nazi propaganda, to legends of courage and sacrifice, and the discovery of her wreck in 1985 has only helped fuel the ongoing fascination with the events of Titanic." "But it has been the stories of the 1500 who perished, and the voices of the 700 who survived, that continue to inspire artists throughout the 20th century, turning the tragic events of one night into a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions." "On the evening of April 14th, 1912, a desperate plea for help crackled through the frigid night air over the North Atlantic." "The world's greatest ocean liner was sinking." "A dozen ships heard the frantic message." "Some were too far away to do anything." "Others couldn't believe the mighty Titanic was really in trouble." "Harold Cottam, the wireless operator aboard a small steamship, Carpathia, waiting for news from the mainland, accidentally heard the cry for help." "Tearing the headphones from his ears, he rushed to the captain's cabin with the news." "Within minutes, the Carpathia had changed her course and was racing at top speed through the same ice-filled waters that had crippled Titanic." "58 miles of open sea separated the Carpathia and the sinking ship." "Every ounce of power was redirected to the ship's engines." "As the sun crept over the ocean's horizon a few hours later, the passengers and crew of the Carpathia realised the worst." "Titanic was gone." "A handful of half-filled lifeboats were bobbing in the vast expanse of frigid sea - the only evidence of what was, hours before, the most luxurious ship ever built." "For four long, sombre days, the Carpathia steamed for New York City with 705 Titanic survivors on board." "Wireless reports cracked through the icy air." "The first reports to reach the city touched off a firestorm of speculation." "Newswriters, desperate for copy, wrote stories based on scraps of information." "Initial coverage of the event varied from hopeful, to forlorn, to grossly inaccurate." "The Evening Sun was optimistic." "Other papers were more guarded." "One of the astonishing things about news coverage of the disaster is that there were these kind of elaborate stories told even before there was any reliable information." "In the first couple of days after the disaster, all that the news organisations had to go on were lists of who had lived and who had died, but they have to give their readers more than that." "Nobody wanted to believe the worst in the case of the Titanic." "There wasn't conclusive wireless information that the ship had gone under." "At the New York offices of the White Star Line, the owners of Titanic, anxious crowds gathered, desperate for information." "Lists of survivors were posted on the front window, bringing shouts ofjoy from some, and cries of agony to others." "Even before the Carpathia could reach her destination, journalists vied to be the first to get the full story from the ship's passengers." "To give you an idea of the frenzy that had overtaken the New York press, a number of reporters got together, chartered a boat to sail out into the channel to meet the Carpathia, and they were standing on the decks and they were shouting questions up" "at the passengers and crewmen." "Some of them were waving 50- and 100-dollar bills to get them to literally jump off the Carpathia so they could be picked up by the press boat." "When the Carpathia returned to New York with the 705 survivors, nearly 30,000 people lined Pier 54 for a glimpse of those who had beaten the North Atlantic." "What, for four days, had been a silent list of names would finally become flesh and blood." "There were touching stories, and the world wanted to know them all." "There were heroes:" "Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down a gentleman in his white tie and tails, declaring that "No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward. "" "Ida Straus, who stepped out of her lifeboat and back on to the Titanic to stay with her husband of 31 years," "and the Unsinkable Molly Brown, a member of the nouveau riche who fought to let the women in her lifeboat row in order that they stay warm." "Desperate for an exclusive scoop on the stories of bravery, a New York Times reporter paid Harold Bride, the surviving wireless operator, $1,000, equivalent to four years' pay, for his eyewitness account of the harrowing night." "But not all were stories of heroism." "Along with tales of bravery were rumours of desperation, cowardice, and negligence." "Questions were left unanswered." "People could not believe that this had happened." "People had a hard time fathoming death on this scale, of this magnitude, in 1912, and, of course, people were trying to fathom how on earth can something made out of ice sink a ship made out of steel?" "And people began to ask very, very pointed questions." "Who's to blame, who's responsible, and how can we not let this happen again?" "The day Carpathia docked, US Senator William Alden Smith detained several passengers and crew for questioning, many of whom were hastily attempting to return to British soil." "The next day, April 19th," "Senator Smith quickly convened a special hearing inside the large meeting hall at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City to discover the truth of what happened that night." "Outside the meeting hall, hundreds of curious New Yorkers gathered, hoping to hear first-hand accounts of the tragedy, or to catch sight of one of the infamous survivors." "For two weeks, newspapers across the country devoted entire sections to the hearings." "Readers were fascinated by every bit of the shocking testimony." "Much of the behaviour of the people on the Titanic was presented for the first time, and in tremendous detail, in this investigation." "It's one of the best sources that we have about what actually happened on board the Titanic the night she went down." "Sensational tales of passengers facing death were splashed across headlines." "There were unproven reports of gunfire in the final moments, as people rushed for the last lifeboats." "These reports, however, were eclipsed by J Bruce Ismay's account of the sinking." "With the public desperate for a villain on which to lay blame," "Ismay became the unwitting scapegoat for many." "While other men stood back and let women and children into boats," "Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line, took a seat that both saved his life and ruined his reputation." "In 1912, the accepted standard of behaviour for a man was very simple." "He was expected to die rather than save himself and be looked upon as a coward." "Each account added to the growing confusion as to what transpired that fateful night." "While some testified that the ship went down intact, others reported seeing the ship break in two." "A young survivor, Jack Thayer Jr, had a sketch made of how he watched the Titanic break as it sank beneath the surface of the Atlantic." "Insulted by the American inquiry, the White Star Line refused to accept these reports, insisting that the ship was solid and went down in one piece." "A month later, a British hearing was held." "Though kinder to those responsible, both hearings reached similar conclusions." "In the end, though, Titanic's Captain Smith was found negligent in his duties." "Titanic was travelling too fast considering the heavy ice reported in the area." "The hearings also focused public attention on antiquated shipping regulations that allowed Titanic to sail with too few lifeboats for her passengers and crew." "The accounts of why Titanic sank explained away some of the mystery, but the legend of the grand ship had been born." "With the help of the new medium of motion pictures," "Titanic was about to evolve from the greatest luxury liner of her day, into a phenomenon far larger than any ship of dreams." "It was 1912, the heart of the industrial age, a time of high ideals and higher hopes." "Nothing seemed beyond our grasp, and yet Titanic, the greatest technological triumph of her time, sank on her maiden voyage, taking over 1500 passengers with her." "It was a tragedy that shocked the world." "And while the American and British inquiries shed some light on the sinking, the public began to look for deeper meaning in the wreck." "On every street corner of America," "Titanic was the topic of conversation." "And everyone had an opinion about the disaster." "For your average man it was simple." "This was, if not a heaven-sent warning, then, at the very least, it was a sharp reminder that fallibility was still the lot of mankind." "That progress and technology and science were not inherently good things, but may present problems." "Pulpits across the country began ringing out lessons of Titanic in sermons of condemnation." "Arrogance and hubris became the theme of sermons the Sunday after the disaster." "Almost every church in the country had some sermon about how we were defying the laws of God." "Reputedly it was said, as Titanic was being built, that God himself could not sink this ship." "When the ship actually went down, people were aghast." "How could a God, a Christian God, allow such a thing to happen?" "So a blasphemy of the time is that God went down with the Titanic." "Titanic also added fuel to the battle of the sexes." "After the disaster, one of the major themes was what this had to say about the relationship between men and women, and specifically the rule of the sea, "Women and children first", that supposedly prevailed on the Titanic" "suggested to people who were opposed to equal rights for women that women were better off entrusting themselves to the protection of men because the Titanic seemed to bear it out." "While anti-suffragettes saw the sacrifice as evidence that women should put their faith and their vote in the hands of their husbands, for women seeking equality," "Titanic offered another lesson." "The idea of " Women and children first" wasn'tjust a policy, it was an outgrowth of the Edwardian mentality." "It ran into some flak afterwards, because 1912 was one of the early peaks of the women's suffrage movement." "There were some women who went so far as to say that it was the obligation of the women on board the Titanic to refuse to get into lifeboats unless the men were allowed to accompany them." "All, of course, in the name of equality." "The African-American community took its own messages from the shipwreck." "One of the most popular interpretations of the disaster came from legendary singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, known as " Leadbelly"." "He put an ironic twist on the tragedy in his ballad " De Titanic"." "The most interesting thing about the Leadbelly song is the verse that goes:" ""Jack Johnson want to get on board, Captain said, 'I ain't hauling no coal. " '" "Jack Johnson was the African-American heavyweight champ of the world at the time of the disaster, and he had tried to book passage on a transatlantic liner and had been denied because he was black." "But Leadbelly took that story, put it on board the Titanic, and turned the disaster into a story about how Jack Johnson lived because he wasn't allowed on board this ship." "Jack Johnson want to get on board" "The captain, he says, "I ain't hauling no coal"" "Fare thee, " Titanic"" "Fare thee well" "Jack Johnson want to get on board" "The captain, he says, "I ain't hauling no coal"" "Fare thee, " Titanic"" "Fare thee well" "Other artists also found the subject of Titanic irresistible, and amateur poets submitted odes and ballads to every newspaper in the country, expressing deep feelings evoked by the tragedy." "Publishers, eager to make a dollar on the frenzied interest, enticed survivors to pen their harrowing tales." "Pictures from the doomed ship were worth more than a thousand words." "Most prized were these photographs taken by Francis Browne, a passenger who fortunately disembarked Titanic in Queenstown, Ireland." "When he got off the ship, he didn't think they were particularly valuable and after the news of the disaster reached Ireland he discovered that this was a gold mine that he had." "Lots ofjournalists and newspaper editors started getting in touch with him, even from across the Atlantic." "He did make a lot of money, especially at that time." "Perhaps the most compelling medium to present Titanic's story was that of motion pictures." "Rarely running over ten minutes, these flickering images brought news of the day alive as no other art form could." "Recognising the popularity of Titanic, pioneering filmmakers were drawn to the growing legend of the ship, eager to exploit the nation's fixation on the disaster." "Within weeks of the tragedy, nickelodeons lured audiences into theatres for a chance to see the great ship." "For ten cents a seat, people flocked to see newsreels of Captain Smith inspecting the notorious lifeboats," "of the famed Titanic waifs, Lolo and Lump Navratil, whose father died on the ship, of any and all things Titanic." "While these newsreels were limited to available footage, only 29 days after the sinking the Eclair film company presented the first dramatic retelling of the Titanic tragedy," "Saved From the Titanic." "The film had the added attraction of starring one of Titanic's survivors " "Dorothy Gibson, a well-known actress of the day." "Gibson also helped write the script for the film, based on her own experiences aboard the ship." "Wearing the same dress she wore on that fateful night," "Gibson gave an air of authenticity to this otherwise melodramatic film." "Presumably lost forever, the only evidence of the film are these rare photos." "Saved From the Titanic was an attempt to capitalise on the intense public interest in the Titanic disaster, to promote her career, and promote this film." "It certainly was an excellent example of how the Titanic disaster was exploited to further some people's careers." "The obsession with Titanic was not only an American phenomenon." "That same year, a German production, Night and Ice, told the tale to European moviegoers." "Lost for decades, and perhaps never seen by American audiences, the film surfaced in 1998 when a German collector found it in his vault." "Nearly three times the length of most films of the day," "Night and Ice attempted to give first-hand experiences of sailing on the famous ship." "All of the Titanic's stories came alive." "Captain Smith could be seen on the bridge of Titanic as she neared the fatal iceberg." "In the safety of the darkened theatre, audiences could relive the terror and tragedy of the wreck." "Audiences witnessed the selfless sense of duty displayed by the senior wireless operator, Jack Phillips, who had stayed at his post until the ship sank." "And while the special effects may seem primitive, this was a true story, and audiences of 1912 found the film spellbinding." "But while Night and Ice recreated the real event, another film used the sinking as a backdrop for its human drama." "Atlantis, produced in 1913 in Denmark, was one of the first full-length films ever made." "It was also one of the first films to seize on the theme of class division that existed in Europe, and on the decks of Titanic." "Set aboard a ship sailing for America, the film told the story of a doctor whose amorous attention was divided between two women." "One, an immigrant in third class..." ".. the other, a rich actress." "By creating a fictional tale, the 113-minute film allowed audiences to be swept up with the personal struggles of the characters aboard the ship." "But when the luxury liner strikes an object in the middle of the ocean, the sequences that followed were eerie echoes of the Titanic tragedy." "Atlantis also boasted some of the most expensive and realistic special effects of the day." "Where models had been used in previous films," "Atlantis used a real ship for the climactic sinking scene, lending an air of realism that was often missing from earlier productions." "Playing to packed houses around the world, the film was a huge hit, proving that the tale of Titanic was universal." "But with the winds of war blowing in Europe, it would take more than 15 years before the Titanic tale would resurface again." "When the First World War exploded across Europe in 1914, the shock of the Titanic disaster quickly faded away." "News of trench warfare, mechanised battle and chemical death filled the headlines of the world's newspapers, offering a grim portrait of the industrial revolution." "If the sinking of Titanic signalled the impending death of the grand Edwardian era, the war to end all wars was clearly its funeral." "But the Titanic disaster showed some of the weaknesses of the society that eventually would crumble in the First World War." "It was the flash of the cannon on the horizon, it was the rumble of thunder in the distance, that let people know that what they believed to be so solid and so secure, so immutable, was nowhere near as stable as they wanted to think it was." "Titanic survivors, once the darlings of the media, faded quickly from the headlines, but the tragedy had left its mark on every one of them." "Molly Brown, the Colorado millionaire, gained notoriety when she presented tokens of her appreciation to Captain Rostron and other members of the Carpathia crew, who had saved her life." "She also established a fund to aid Titanic survivors who had been left destitute following the wreck." "Others were anxious to forget events of that fateful night entirely, including Titanic's heroic wireless operator, Harold Bride." "He resigned from the company and, for all practical purposes, vanished off the face of the earth." "He never tried to make a name for himself, or even let on that the Harold Bride who was the travelling salesman was the Harold Bride who was junior wireless operator on Titanic." "The harshestjudgement came to J Bruce Ismay, whose very survival became an embarrassment he would carry with him the rest of his life." "IMM not only forced him off the board of directors, but they also forced him out as the chairman of the White Star Line." "He was no longer welcome among polite society, ruthlessly ignored and cut by people who had been his friends." "People would actually talk behind his back as he walked down the street - " That's Ismay. "" "They were whispering that he was a coward, because that was how he was perceived." "In postwar years, advances in motion pictures were luring larger audiences into theatres, and the invention of sound allowed filmmakers to present their stories more dramatically to the public." "In 1929, the first talkie inspired by Titanic appeared." "Titled Atlantic, and based on the successful stage play by Ernest Raymond, the film presented the story of a presumably unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg." "Man the emergency dynamos." "Man the emergency dynamos." "The film used facts, culled from eyewitness testimony, to portray every aspect of Titanic's sinking with an almost documentary realism." " Await orders." " Await orders." "The film told of sacrifice, heroism, and the stoicism of some of the world's richest men trapped on board the doomed ship." "If you still love your wife and daughter, you'd better get them to the boats without delay." "Why?" " The ship's quite safe." "Isn't it?" " Oh, yes." "For a couple of hours." "The film also helped to establish some questionable Titanic lore, including which song the ship's band played as the liner sank from sight." "The debate goes on about the last piece of music played by the band." "Was it " Nearer, My God, to Thee"?" "Was it the Episcopal hymn, " Autumn"?" "Was it the popular waltz, " The Song of Autumn"?" "People are going to debate this for years." "At the same time, legends sometimes obscure more important aspects of the story." "Is it really important what the last piece of music played by the band was?" "No." "What's important is that the band played until the waves washed them off the deck." "Sometimes that's what legends are:" "the incidents we make larger than life." "Darkness comes over me" "My rest a stone" "Atlantic explored every known detail of Titanic sinking, and, not surprisingly, brought condemnation from the owners of the White Star Line, who wanted the memory of Titanic to fade from the public's consciousness." "Shortly after the film was released, the stock market crashed, sending America into a deep depression." "In this time of crisis, Titanic became something of a modern myth, a metaphor for looming disaster and lost hope." "In 1933, Titanic made an unexpected appearance in Noel Coward's Cavalcade, serving as an ironic warning for all who sail blindly toward the future." "This is our moment, complete and heavenly." "I'm not afraid of anything." "This is our own, forever." "In 1941, Germany's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, would use the story of the ship as a weapon against the Allies." "The first film ever made actually called Titanic was made in Germany during the war." "It was the idea of Joseph Goebbels." "He thought it would be a lavish escapist spectacle which would also be a good vehicle for anti-British propaganda." "Goebbels and the Third Reich portrayed Titanic as a symbol of Britain's preoccupation with ostentation and greed." "The White Star director, J Bruce Ismay, eager to flaunt the crowning jewel of his luxury fleet of ships, recklessly guides Titanic into dangerous waters in an attempt to break all speed records." "The ship's British captain is easily persuaded." "But a fictitious German first officer refuses to be influenced by Ismay's bribes." "The film provided its own answer to the lingering question of how Ismay may have made his way into a lifeboat." "Although the film was a propaganda device, it created a thrilling recreation of the sinking..." ".. and gave audiences some touching moments." "Ironically, the film's director, Herbert Selpin, like many artists in Germany, ultimately found himself clashing with the Nazi government, and after insulting the Third Reich, Selpin's career came to an abrupt end." "Goebbels summoned Selpin for an audience." "Selpin did not recant." "He was imprisoned and, as it came out after the war, forced to hang himself by prison guards." "By the time Titanic was released in 1943, massive bombing raids were closing theatres all over Germany, rendering Goebbels' propaganda weapon powerless." "When World War ll ended in 1945, there seemed to be little left to be said about the Titanic." "Two world wars and more than 30 years had passed since the tragedy." "Survivors were lost." "And even the White Star Line had gone out of business." "Although her remarkable tale had served as a lesson for many," "Titanic would fade from memory until her tragic story surfaced again, this time in Hollywood." "Four decades have passed since the " Titanic"" "screamed across the headlines of the world." "Yet no human drama has eclipsed its staggering impact and overwhelming power." "Now, for the first time, the screen brings you the strange events." "The monumental story of those four never-to-be-forgotten days." "On April 14, 1953, 41 years to the day after the Titanic tragedy," "20th Century Fox released the first Hollywood film about the ill-fated voyage." "Titanic, starring Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Wagner." "It offered a new view of the disaster as a lavish backdrop for drama and a vehicle for the story of a family in crisis." "Richard, please try to see this sanely." "We're Americans." "We belong in America." "And yet for years we've been galloping all over Europe to be in the proper places." "Winter in St Moritz, Deauville in season, summer in..." "What's the use?" "The same silly calendar, year after year." " Look at Annette." " I have, with great pride." "She's entertaining, she's discriminating, she has grace and style." "She's an arrogant little prig." "So you've chosen to drag her back to the glories of Mackinac, Michigan." "Any town in any state becomes comic on your lips." "But that's where she's going." "De-emphasising the factual events," "Titanic explored a more intimate, and at times even light-hearted, view of the ship's passengers." "Shake your moccasins and roll your eye" "Tear my blanket, make my feathers fly" "Whirl me" "Twirl me" "Whirl me, twirl me to that Navajo Rag" "But it was a frank and contemporary drama that remained the focus of this retelling of Titanic's voyage." "We'll discuss it later." "Now!" "No court in the world, no power under heaven can force me to give up my son." "He is not your son." "You have a lot of utterly fictitious characters among passengers and crew." "Some glaring historical inaccuracies." "There was one scene where the port side of the ship is being opened up by the iceberg, when, of course, everyone knows it was the starboard side." "Did we hit it?" "It hit us." "At the same time, it can be a very emotional and very evocative film." "But it did not centre around the Titanic." "The Titanic was, if you will, the vehicle." "It's almost 10:30, Father." "We should have a warm-up." "You'll have to find someone else." "I'm busy." "Yes, sir." "With America increasingly fearful of the atomic threat," "Titanic gave audiences the message that traditional values were more important than ever." "That summer, when I asked you to marry me," "I pledged my eternal devotion." "I would consider it a great favour, Julia, if you would accept a restatement of that pledge." "Ohh!" "The disaster becomes a way by which a man redeems himself, and human conflicts are repaired." "Well..." "Whatever happens..." "I love you very much." "I've been proud of you every day of your life, never as much as at this moment." "With the Korean war still fresh on everyone's minds, the loss of husbands and sons took on a special poignancy." "Titanic touched and terrified audiences around the world." "But the film left many unsatisfied, hungry for a more accurate retelling of the Titanic story." "One such person was Walter Lord, an advertising copywriter and novice historian whose passion for Titanic began as a boy, when he sailed aboard her sister ship, Olympic." "For nearly 20 years, Lord had meticulously researched the Titanic and the story of the passengers who sailed her." "Walter Lord was the first Titanic author to systematically interview Titanic survivors." "He interviewed 63 of them." "He had the fortune of having so many still be alive when he decided to write this book." "What that did was give him a level of credibility that it would be virtually impossible to match any more." "It was difficult in a way cos there was no survivors' association." "There was no Titanic club." "There was no Titanic interest, really." "It was a challenge just to find them." "Published in 1955," "A Night To Remember quickly climbed to the top of the bestseller lists, where it would remain for months." "Walter Lord wrote about how the Titanic represented the end of an era, how a beautiful way of life died that night in April of 1912." "How, before the Titanic disaster, people were confident, they had faith in the future, they had certainty." "Afterwards, basically, the modern world came upon us and everybody was filled with doubt." "That has a kind of poetic truth to it that's really touched a lot of people." "The true story of Titanic was far more compelling than any Hollywood could invent." "However, the next Titanic film wouldn't originate in Hollywood, but in Ireland, the birthplace of the great ship." "Shortly after A Night To Remember was published," "William MacQuitty, a Belfast-born film producer, quickly began making plans to bring Walter Lord's story to the big screen." "No film can be better than its script." "And here was a ready-made drama." "He'd researched it for 20 years." "It had everything I needed." "Unlike Hollywood's take on the disaster, MacQuitty's film would focus almost entirely on the real events and characters of the ship." "Lord was brought in as a consultant and MacQuitty made sure he stayed true to the book, doing everything he could to recreate the splendour and opulence of the Titanic." "I was so lucky Bill was really interested in the Titanic." "He really adopted the project as his own and was there all the time." "The thing that interested me the most was how earnest he was in getting it absolutely accurate as far as he could." "For actor David McCallum, portraying wireless operator Harold Bride, boarding the replica of the ship every day was a heady experience." "The most vivid memory I have of making A Night To Remember was driving out to Pinewood Studios late afternoon to do the night work." "You drive up onto the back lot and as I came round the corner of one of the studios, right there on the horizon was the whole of the Titanic, or a huge centre section of the Titanic," "against the skyline, fully lit with the smoke coming out of the funnels." "And it really was like coming across the Titanic in the middle of the night." "A Night To Remember premiered in London on July 3, 1958, where it quickly became the most successful film of that year." "The 14th of April, 1912." "A night to remember." "A night when the largest, most luxurious liner of her day was speeding across the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage." "No expense had been spared to make this ship a symbol of man's final victory over nature." "The ship was called the " Titanic"." " What did you see?" " Iceberg, dead ahead, sir." "Cast as Crewman Frederick Fleet, who first spotted the iceberg, actor Bernard Fox found the ambitious film's take on the disaster refreshing." "It was purely about the Titanic, which from my point of view is what I enjoy about it." "You actually got to meet the people involved, knew who they were." "We've contacted the "Carpathia"." "She's on her way to us." " Well, how far away is she?" " 58 miles, sir." "She's making all possible speed, should reach us in four hours." "Four hours." "Being there on the Titanic, and taking a message to the captain as the radio officer, the reality of it, it was just like you were actually there." "It was quite..." "I mean, it was so exciting." "Captain." " Aren't you exaggerating the danger?" " I'm afraid not, sir." " Where's Andrews?" " I'm acting on his advice." " This ship is going to founder." " But she can't." "In any case, we can't get everyone in the boats." "I know that, sir." "Please God, it won't come to that." "A Night To Remember deals almost exclusively with real historical characters." "And because it doesn't really engage in a main romantic plot, it's able to make its way all over the ship in a fairly short amount of time, and to really get at a lot of different experiences" "of what it must have been like that night." " I say, let's go down and join the fun." " But they're steerage passengers." " Mr Guggenheim." "Your life belt." " It was uncomfortable." "We have dressed now in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen." " That is so, sir." " If anything should happen to me," "I would like my wife to know that I behaved decently." " Get in the boat." " Yes, Mrs Straus." "You must." "I've always stayed with my husband, Colonel, so why should I leave him now?" "Please, be sensible." "We've lived together for many years, Isidor." "Where you go, I go." "Look." "Oh, look." "The most expensive movie in British film history," "A Night To Remember was a media event and a sensation for audiences." "But not everyone who saw the film was ready for the realism of A Night To Remember." "For survivor Millvina Dean, who lost her father on Titanic, the film was too painful to watch." "I saw it with five other survivors and we all hated it." "Because our fathers had all gone down with it." "The first part is OK, when it's starting off, but it's when it is struck by the iceberg." "Then, I suppose, we all thought about our fathers." "We were all most unhappy." "We said we'd never see another Titanic film." "And we haven't done so." "British audiences and critics were unanimous in their praise for the film." "But with no Hollywood stars, the film took longer to grab the attention of Americans." "But within a year of its release, A Night To Remember won a Golden Globe award and helped introduce Titanic's story to a new generation of Americans." "I got involved with the Titanic when I read the book, A Night To Remember, when I was in high school and I was 15 years old." "And itjust grabbed me." "With A Night To Remember, I think it's easy to project back." "It's easy to imagine you were on the ship." "But to me, A Night To Remember will remain, and I think the case would be for a lot of other people, the definitive Titanic film." "Suddenly, everyone knew the facts surrounding the disaster." "And it seemed as if A Night To Remember would be the last word on Titanic, a respectful eulogy to the passengers, the ship and the era it represented." "But Titanic's journey through mainstream culture was just beginning." "And as the psychedelic '60s began, the ship would find itself sailing through some strange waters." "As the 1960s began, a growing optimism was sweeping the country." "Anything seemed possible." "And artists began to stretch the boundaries of our imagination, with some decidedly offbeat accounts of the Titanic tragedy." "By the time you get to the 1960s, the Titanic became popular" "in a way that I don't think anyone had anticipated." "In the footsteps of The Twilight Zone, the popular fantasy television series, One Step Beyond, tantalised viewers with tales of the paranormal." "The amazing drama you are about to see is a matter of human record." "You may believe it, or not." "One episode told the supposedly true stories of premonitions people had before the sinking of the Titanic." "We can't go on that ship." " It happened again." "I dreamed..." " Now, now, darling." "I do wish you wouldn't." "I saw the sea, cold sea." "There were people struggling in the water." " Sinking." "Dying." " Grace." "I know you'll laugh, and I don't blame you." "I was in my cabin this afternoon." "I imagine it was around four o'clock when I heard this terrible sound." " What kind of sound?" " It was a terrible grinding sound, as though the ship had struck some immovable object." "While the show recognised the tragedy," "One Step Beyond used the sinking to promote the show's belief in the supernatural." "Please dress warmly." "There's no need to panic." "Just take it nice and easy." "I've never seen you do anything like this before." "All of this detail in here." "Harry, what is it?" "Your hands are like ice." "The water in the drawing was cold." "Icy cold." "If the Titanic is not at the centre of the stories, it will be a catalyst that leads us into something related at that particular time and place." "That same year, the life of one of Titanic's most flamboyant survivors evolved from a factual footnote in history to a pop culture sensation." "Once renowned for her no-nonsense brand of heroism," "Molly Brown's story resurfaced in 1960 as a splashy Broadway musical." "The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Tammy Grimes, reintroduced Brown's story to the world." "Opening to rave reviews, Grimes went on to receive a Tony award for best actress in a musical comedy." "She endeared people to her as far as the audiences were concerned." "They loved Molly Brown, and they loved the fact that she was an American heroine because of the Titanic." "And indeed, for many, many, many, many, many, many women, she was the case of a poor girl making it good." "Three years after the play's Broadway run," "The Unsinkable Molly Brown made its way to the silver screen in 1964." "Starring Debbie Reynolds and an all-star cast, the film brought Molly's remarkable story to an even bigger audience." "I'm gonna learn to read and write" "I'm gonna see what there is to see" "I guess it's like here you eat snails and at home we step on 'em." "In the Molly Brown story, you really do get a challenge to the male monopoly on heroism, which you had in 1912." "In particular, the idea that the true heroes of the story were the chivalrous first-cabin men." "In Molly Brown, you get a feminist heroine to kind of balance the scales a little bit." "But even as the public were singing along with Molly Brown, disturbing images shook the nation as they were broadcast into living rooms across the country." "In response to the frustrations of the times, visionary television producer Irwin Allen began to offer viewers an escape from the reality of the nightly news." "In the fantasy worlds of Irwin Allen, anything seemed possible - even a trip back in time to sail aboard Titanic." "In 1966, Allen explored his fascination with the ill-fated ship in the premiere episode of his popular series, The Time Tunnel." "I've made it." "Are you hurt?" "I, uh..." "I didn't look where I was going." "It's a pretty big ship." "It's supposed to be the biggest ever built." ""Titanic"." "The Time Tunnel used sets and stock footage from the Fox film, Titanic, and told of two contemporary time-travellers who visit the ship and make a vain attempt to save it from its fate." " This ship is the " Titanic"." " Is that what you had to tell me?" "I'm part of a scientific team in the year 1968." "We're experimenting with time displacement." "I've been sent back in time to this ship." "To this moment, month and year." "Captain." "You didn't believe my friend and you won't believe me, but you can believe your eyes." "The story is all here in tomorrow's paper." "Take them below." "This time, see that they stay there." "They try to warn the captain." "You've got to believe me." "Then they end up locked up for being crazy." "And because the captain didn't listen to these time-travellers from the future, the Titanic ends up going down yet again." "He should have listened to these people and finally, we could have avoided the Titanic disaster." "The Time Tunnel represented our collective desire to prevent the tragedy, a modern voice echoing back through time to set history right." "I like to think if I was there, I could have contributed, but those are fantasies, and I think that's something people do when they're teenagers, when they get involved in the Titanic." ""What if I was there?"" "And as you get older, you stop thinking along those lines, and you study the real thing and don't fantasise about " Where would I have been?"" "In 1972, Irwin Allen would visit the mythology of Titanic again." "With an all-star cast including Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters and Roddy McDowall," "The Poseidon Adventure turned a shipwreck into a big-budget thrill ride." "I've always had a visceral reaction to sea disasters." "The Titanic and Andrea Doria, they all..." "My family were seamen, and I had an immediate reaction to that situation." "Give me your hand, Reverend!" "Give me your hand!" "While The Poseidon Adventure had little to do with the story of the Titanic, the similarity between Titanic and the luxury liner Poseidon wasn't lost on audiences." "But by creating a fictional disaster at sea," "Allen was able to give his film something the real story couldn't offer:" "a happy ending." "An equally ambitious film released in 1980 focused exclusively on saving the ship itself." "Based on Clive Cussler's bestselling novel," "Raise the Titanic envisioned the ship as little more than a plot device in a hi-tech spy thriller." "This story is really about a race to get this important mineral that went down, supposedly, with the Titanic, so that the US can build a kind of Star Wars defence system against the Soviet Union." "So it's really about the Cold War." "So that's where we are." "We need 200 ounces of a measly mineral we can't find." "And when we do find it, where is it?" " It's at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean." " We can't get divers down to the " Titanic"." " Which leaves us with only one choice." " And what's that?" "We don't go to the mountain, the mountain comes to us." "The story's greatest moment, lifting Titanic from her watery grave, represented both man's ultimate conquering of the elements and the ultimate dream for Titanic buffs." "But even spectacular special effects couldn't keep the film from sinking at the box office." "One of the biggest money-losing films in history up to that time." "The financial backer of the film, Lord Grade, was reputed to have said, " Raise the Titanic?" "It'd have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic. "" "In the jaded climate of the 1970s, popular culture's take on Titanic continued to degenerate into bizarre references, far removed from the actual tragedy." "But there were still those dedicated to the memory of the ship and her passengers." "Founded in 1963 by Ed Kamuda, the Titanic Historical Society diligently commemorates the history of the RMS Titanic, her passengers and her legacy." "I began corresponding with people and in one case, this fellow that I had seen in the newspaper, the New York Times, and his name was Walter Belford, and he was the chief night baker for the Titanic." "And I started corresponding with him and he died less than a year later." "When I learned his materials had been thrown on the city dump, that was the time I finally decided it's time somebody formed some kind of a group to salvage all this material." "And we've been at it for 35 years now." "As the Titanic Historical Society works to keep the memories of survivors alive, others began to focus on the ship itself." "While the idea of raising the Titanic seemed far-fetched, a growing number of scientists believed the ship could be found." "One scientist set out on an expedition that would take him two and a half miles beneath the North Atlantic, and into history." "Titanic mythology began on the still surface of the North Atlantic, when her stern sank from sight." "But a new chapter in Titanic's legacy opened up in 1985, when Dr Robert Ballard and his team accomplished what many thought was impossible." "They found Titanic." "There was such contrast." "Constantly, right next to violence was softness." "And the wine bottles were just one example." "Chamber pots and things like that." "How things can survive and other things can't." "The minute we had confirmation and 20 minutes later, when we made a pass over the bow of the ship and really knew we had the Titanic, pandemonium broke out." "Bottles of champagne came out of nowhere." "Two and a half miles down in the Atlantic, it's pure black." "We acquire the Titanic first on sonar, and as we're moving very slowly towards it, the limited lighting that we have on a submersible will start to show a form, then a shape, then a texture and then colour." "And at that point, you're there, on the Titanic." "When you think about it, they landed on the moon in 1969." "They weren't able to find the Titanic till 1985." "And it really was an accomplishment." "For the first time since her fateful voyage," "Titanic could now tell us her story, and the stories of the passengers who perished with her in 1912." "Ghostly images of the rusting hulk brought back the chilling reality of her sinking and dispelled myths that had been kept alive for years." "Many thought the icy water would preserve the ship in pristine condition, but rust had eaten away much of Titanic's majestic hull." "Up to that point, Titanic was a thing of the imagination." "People conceived it in different kinds of ways." "Was it sitting there immaculately on the seabed as it had gone down in 1912?" "Perhaps this was in the imagination." "But the discovery of the wreck certainly revealed the reality of a deteriorating shipwreck on the seabed." "The discovery also confirmed the story of young Jack Thayer Junior and others who reported that the ship split in two as she sank into the sea." "This was dismissed by people as fancy." "The ship has to go down all in one piece." "That's the way ships sink." "No." "In fact, Jack Thayer was very keen-eyed for a 14-year-old, and did an intriguing little drawing that, as time went by, in 1985, we now know is quite accurate." "Slowly, myths were giving way to facts." "And with each new image, we were spellbound by the ship's decaying grandeur." "I remember coming upon the bow, the classic shot of the bow, right on the tip, and realising that this is probably the most famous shipwreck in the world, and there were so many tragedies and such a great amount of loss associated with it," "that it's a humbling experience." "When cameras penetrated the ship's hull for the first time, what before had only been imagined became a reality." "Haunting images emerged from inside the wreck, taking us on a ghostly tour of the ship." "After travelling down the grand stairway, a chandelier greets us in the once-luxurious dining room." "And littering the ocean floor, there were reminders of the passengers who lost their lives on the maiden voyage." "Shoes marked the watery grave of one unlucky passenger." "A copper heater sat useless in the ice-cold water." "And an unopened champagne bottle waited eternally for a celebration that would never come." "All of a sudden it was in the headlines, front-page news again." "I always think of the Toronto Sun with this headline, " Titanic Found!"" "Probably bigger than the headline they ran when the ship sank." "And it was just suddenly big news." "With the discovery of the Titanic, I caught Titanic fever all over again." "I had been fascinated by the story when I was a child, and here I was in the mid-'80s, working in the field of media studies, the ship is discovered, and I come to realise this is, among other things, a media event." "It isn'tjust a momentous story from the past, it's living history." "Something that has ongoing significance." "The discovery of Titanic also served to inspire dozens of books that explored our enchantment with the wreck." "Even Walter Lord was eager to follow up his definitive A Night To Remember with a new book called The Night Lives On." "With interest at an all-time high, survivors were courted by the media, a living testament to the Titanic tragedy." "After 1985, we began to wonder, what was it like for the people that were on board?" "Who are they?" "Do they still have anything to say?" "And we have gone about looking for these survivors, and some of them have become media celebrities." "They call me cos there's nobody else to call." "And, quite honestly, I enjoy it." "Everybody makes a fuss of me." "So I enjoy it." "And I go to... oh, quite a lot of places." "When you meet a Titanic survivor, you get goosebumps, because you are so close to history when you speak with them." "They've achieved a celebrity status." "When you see a kid come up to a Titanic survivor for an autograph, it's a very, very special moment." "Robert Ballard's discovery of Titanic led others to the wreck, hoping to mine her treasures for future generations." "Although some felt the wreck was a grave site, and should be left alone, others believed that it was important to save what they could of Titanic." "After securing exclusive salvage rights," "RMS Titanic, Inc." "began a delicate operation to retrieve what they could from the ship." "Through painstaking restoration, the company was able to save everything, from clarinets to Captain Smith's aluminium megaphone." "Once the artifacts had been assembled, the collection was exhibited in museums around the world, attracting record crowds, eager to glimpse a piece of living history." "Among the most touching pieces are the love-letters of Howard Irwin, who was saved from the sinking by a twist of fate." "The trunk of Howard Irwin's was found by accident, and it contained the playing cards, and all of the things that were dear to Howard on his trip, including Pearl's love letters." "He missed the boat because he got into a fight, and his best friend Harry was in charge of the luggage and ended up dying." "The artifacts were a chilling and poignant reminder of Titanic's human cargo, and no one was untouched by their power." "You cannot predict which object will affect which person." "You have to just let the people have their chance." "You frame the objects as little as possible, because they in a sense have their own voice, and what they do to people is unpredictable." "As we lose these survivors, these are the only voices we'll have left." "But this is not ours, it's just a voice that's echoing through time." "For artists who had been depicting the ship for years, the wreck and its artifacts brought both information and inspiration." "Renowned Titanic painter Ken Marschall, who has spent a lifetime recreating the splendour of the ship, found the discovery to be a turning point in the Titanic saga." "It was tremendously exciting to me." "I remember getting a bit weepy and calling some of my friends." "Some people thought that the discovery of the ship would prick the romantic bubble, that the legend would die." "But it turned out to be just the opposite." "For those lucky enough to visit the wreck themselves, nothing could match the wonder of seeing the actual ship and her artifacts first-hand." "When one of the submersibles brought up a suitcase, and the brass was as good as new, and the suitcase opened up, and there inside were two perfectly folded shirts." "And the entire ship became dead quiet." "It's one thing to read about Titanic, to write about it, but to actually visit it was the experience of a lifetime." "It was like visiting an old friend, all these emotions are pulling you in different directions, and it's like no other experience I've ever had." "Ballard's discovery of Titanic had opened up an exciting new chapter in the ship's history, and left us more curious about the lives of those who walked her decks." "The more people find out about the Titanic, the more they want to know." "And because the basic story itself is about people, and about people facing the greatest conflict in their life, you will always have people attracted to this story." "Beyond the science, the theories and the controversies," "Titanic was a human tale of arrogance, courage and sacrifice." "This was what the public found most compelling." "And it was these stories that would inspire a new generation of authors, composers and filmmakers to adapt the stirring tale for modern audiences." "The discovery of Titanic clearly captured the imagination of the world." "But there was more to this rusting hulk than artifacts and museum exhibits." "This was the dawn of the virtual age, and advances in technology were helping bring the ship alive for a new generation of voyagers." "One company on the cutting edge was Cyberflix, whose 1994 CD-ROM Titanic:" "Adventure Out Of Time offered Titanic enthusiasts a first-hand tour of the ship on their personal computers." "The thing computer technology allows somebody to do is to recreate a world and then allow you to walk around in it." "So it's possible for you to walk down the grand staircase, turn and walk out and onto the deck and look out at a starry sky, and walk down to where the lifeboats are." "And you can just stand there or move around, and you can go anywhere anybody could on the night of April 14th, 1912, and look, and that is what the ship looked like from that perspective on that night." "Not since her maiden voyage had anyone been able to walk the great ship's decks." "The experience brought a new understanding of what it was like for Titanic's passengers." "Throughout the 1990s, new works of fiction set aboard the great ship also began popping up everywhere, as authors like Arthur C Clarke," "Jack Finney and Danielle Steel all found new tales to tell about the fabled ship." "The general public seem to have an insatiable desire to read everything that's written about Titanic." "Even for me, a bookshop owner," "I marvel at the sheer weight of number of publications about the Titanic." "One of the most touching and unique books came from the imagination of one of Titanic's passengers." "Polar the Titanic Bear was written by survivor Daisy Spedden in 1912, for her young son Douglas, who had slept through the cold night in his mother's arms." "The handwritten manuscript told the story of the sinking through the eyes of the teddy bear that the boy travelled with." "Only recently discovered by a relative," "Polar the Titanic Bear now helps children around the world understand the tragedy." "A lot of schools are now picking up the book, they're working it into their third- to fifth-grade curriculums." "And so because of this, I get to visit schools and share Douglas' story with a whole new generation of kids." "This little boy now lives on in the hearts and minds of young children everywhere." "While many accounts focused on real passengers, the public also found fictional characters equally compelling." "In 1996, CBS aired Hallmark Entertainment's four-hour epic miniseries, Titanic, starring Peter Gallagher, Marilu Henner as Molly Brown, and George C Scott as Captain Smith." "Titanic focused on the intimate relationships between passengers..." "We'll look back on this as a real adventure." "It's got everything." "Action." "Danger." "Romance." ".. and on the class issue that created two separate worlds on the ship of dreams." "Call for assistance, we've struck an iceberg." "These are the coordinates." "The international call for help, CQD, "Come quickly, distress. " Just that." " Open the bloody gates!" " I told you, first-class only." "Reflecting facts that emerged with the discovery of the wreck, for the first time a film showed Titanic splitting in two as she sank." "The following year, veteran producer Michael David, along with composer Maury Yeston and playwright Peter Stone, launched an elaborate stage production of the tragedy, as, of all things, a musical." "Sometimes the worst ideas in the world, or what seem like the worst ideas, end up being very good and very successful musicals." "What's great about that story, in terms of its dramatic effect, is that its roots are in a profound irony." "And audiences love irony." "Irony always works on stage, and always works on the screen." "There's something the audience knows that the people on stage don't, and that's what animates the drama." "We saw a story that was, in some strange way, uplifting." "It was about men going on after the most awful events." "So it's just captivating, and people sit there in suspense, even though they know what's going to happen." "Titanic the musical proved to be a stirring triumph, winning five Tony awards, including best musical." "In 1997, director James Cameron was also putting the finishing touches on what promised to be the most historically accurate and cinematically gripping depiction of the sinking to date." "Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet," "Titanic would use the famed shipwreck as the backdrop for its epic love story." "By the time James Cameron's Titanic premiered on December 15th of 1997, the film had taken on mythic proportions." "Its $200 million budget was one of the biggest of all time, and the dazzling digital effects used to bring Titanic alive set new standards for the film industry." "After opening as the number one film in the country," "Titanic held that spot for 15 weeks, longer than any other film in history." "Titanic not only lived up to its name, it added fuel to an already booming Titanic market." "The tragic romance had struck a chord with audiences, and fans returned to theatres again and again to relive the great ship's last moments." "I just heard that you have to see it." "It's just full of human drama." "It has all of life in it." "I liked all the special effects of how the boat was sinking, and how it was made." "The romance played a big role in the movie." "I saw the movie three times, each with some different girls." "Titanic's appeal wasn't limited to the United States." "The film filled theatres in 56 countries around the world..." "Leonardo!" ".. inspiring fanaticism wherever it went." "In February of 1998, after breaking box-office records around the world," "Titanic was nominated for a staggering 14 Academy Awards, tying the previous record set by 1950's All About Eve." "On Oscar night, Titanic went on to win 11 awards, matching the record held by Ben-Hur, including three for Cameron as director, producer and editor." "For survivors, however, one trip on the Titanic was enough to last a lifetime." "They tried very hard to get me to see this movie." "They even said they'd have a private showing forjust me." "But what's the difference?" "It's still the same film." "Whether it's a private showing or not, it's the same film, so it's pointless." "They tried to entice me by having a special showing for Prince Charles." "Prince Charles will be there, would I see it?" "And I said, " No, cos I have no intention of seeing it, no matter who's there. "" "The popularity of Titanic turned props from the movie into highly coveted collector's items, prized by fans as rare pieces of motion-picture history." "I initially started collecting these things because I've been a fan of Titanic for years and years and years." "When Cameron made Titanic, he had these things incredibly duplicated." "They restored the elevator and some of the other pieces, and the workmanship is just incredible." "I can't believe this was a set, it was like it was off the Titanic." "So I said, " Well, I can't have original pieces, so I might as well have reasonable facsimiles. " So here they are." "All of the artifacts from the movie, costumes, silverware, lamps, banisters, these things went on sale, people were buying them up, even though they were simply replicas of the original." "In some sense, Titanic the movie supplanted Titanic the historical event, and it became a kind of a faux history." "Just as people of 1912 were hungry for every account of the Titanic disaster, in 1997, the public voraciously devoured all things Titanic." "Artist Rick Worth created a unique rolling tribute to the ship with this roadworthy sculpture." "And fashion designer Kathrine Baumann even created an $80,000 jewelled purse for a one-of-a-kind Titanic gift." "Inspired by the book Last Dinner on the Titanic, restaurants across the country recreated the final meal served to first-class passengers aboard Titanic before she sank." " Bon voyage!" " Bon voyage!" "Titanic mania also swept the Internet, and cybercitizens were treated to thousands of new websites that explored the science and mythology of the great ship." "So you have everything from the RMS Titanic site, titaniconline, which is the big company doing a huge website to promote their exploration, and then you have kids around the world in school building their own sites and their own take on it." "Whether exploring the virtual world, or the real world, opportunities to learn about Titanic could be found in a number of settings." "Visitors aboard the now-retired Queen Mary can enjoy a special exhibit of Titanic artifacts, while reliving the romance of steamer travel." "Finally, there's a very dramatic way for people to appreciate what these liners are all about." "So we have folks coming aboard the Queen Mary and saying," ""Oh, gosh, this must be what the Titanic was like. "" "I think it helps to memorialise the event by making more people aware of that, and giving sort of life and meaning to people who lost their lives and to those who survive." "At 615 I have a bid." "Do I have 7?" "At 615." "I have a bid, 700." "700, 700, 700." "Go 50?" "At $700, anybody else?" "$700..." "In 1998, at a Butterfield  Butterfield auction, collectors bid on photographs and personal effects owned by Harold Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia, who received the distress call from Titanic." "What interests collectors is attempting to link up with that moment in time, and an empathy with it, and a desire to understand it." "You understand yourself, and maybe the future, certainly by evaluating the past." "There's something very beautiful about a plate from that period from an old ship." "I collect because I want to show people that these things exist." "There's always this challenge to find something that is something that not everybody has." "For those drawn to the wreck, an adventure touring company is planning to give people a chance to dive two and a half miles beneath the Atlantic for a first-hand view of the ship." "And for truly brave souls who want to tempt fate once again, there is " Titanic 2000", an ambitious project proposed in 1998 to build a working replica of the ship." "Passengers able to afford the estimated $100,000 first-class ticket price will be able to step back in time as the ship retraces Titanic's route." "If anyone ever needed confirmation that the Titanic story is alive and growing and never ever going to leave us, it's " Titanic 2000"." "Once the Titanic gets into your life, she never ever leaves." "Titanic was a tale that bridged the barriers of time." "But beyond the wreck, the film, and the mania that followed, there are still stories to be discovered and lessons to be learned about the day she sailed and the night of her sinking." "The tale of Titanic is known the world over." "It has captured the imagination of millions, and continues to live on as vividly as when she first set sail." "But in Ireland, where Titanic was built, the ship holds a special significance, and nowhere is the loss of life felt more deeply than in the small town of Cobh, Ireland, where Titanic took on her last passengers." "When Titanic weighed anchor here in 1912, this coastal hamlet was known as Queenstown." "So small was the harbour that the 882-foot ship had to wait offshore while Titanic's last passengers were ferried to her." "It is here where Irish immigrants set sail for a better life in the New World, and it is here where visitors from around the world pay homage to Titanic's passengers." "I see a lot of people coming to Ireland now on a visit put Cobh on their itinerary because of that." "It's, you know, " We've got to go and see where the Titanic left from. "" "To commemorate the Titanic legacy, a heritage trail has been organised, allowing visitors to trace the path of the many men and women who booked passage to the promised land aboard the greatest ship of her time." "The Titanic Trail is a heritage walk that takes people in the same footsteps that emigrants walked in all those years ago, visiting the same buildings, entering the same establishments." "It allows people to reach across the mists of time, as we say, and touch base with the emigrants that left." "I'm looking forward to having a lot of people coming here and explaining to them what might or might not have happened on those few days before Titanic sailed." "The most touching stop on the trail is the Cobh Heritage Centre." "Formerly a railway station, this is where emigrants arrived in Cobh before booking passage to America." "The scene that would greet the visitors today is exactly the same as the scene that would have greeted the emigrants who got off the trains to board the ships here at Cobh." "Among the many things we have at Cobh Heritage Centre is a wall of dedication to the people who boarded the Titanic." "From here, tourists relive the last few hours of Titanic's passengers before they embarked on their fateful voyage." "But perhaps the most poignant reminder of the Titanic's survivors are these photographs taken by Francis Browne before he disembarked at Queenstown, skipping the last leg of Titanic's voyage." "This glimpse of the quiet moments aboard the ill-fated ship reminds us that Titanic is first and foremost a human tragedy." "People wanted to see the real Titanic, and then even after they'd gone to the movie, they wanted to see how the creation compared with the reality." "They wanted even to see the real people." "Decades ago, the people of this village watched as Titanic sailed into history, filled with dreams of a new world." "Four days later, the voyage ended." "In the presence of God, in the name of the Father..." "In 1998, the people of Cobh commemorated the memory of the dead with a wreath-laying ceremony in the harbour." "Perhaps the saddest reminder of the lives lost is the cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where 150 unclaimed victims of the disaster were buried." "This is the final resting place of Titanic's poorest passengers, whose families lacked the means to bring them home." "But while few of these bodies have been claimed, none of the dead will ever be forgotten." "For decades, the International Ice Patrol, who watch over the waters of the North Atlantic for icebergs, has laid a wreath over the watery grave." "And 1571 men, women and children went down into the sea." "Oh, God, have mercy upon those unfortunate souls." "This annual memorial ensures that the memory of Titanic's passengers will never be forgotten." "This is a holy shrine for some, and three survivors have even chosen to have their ashes scattered over the site, returning to loved ones who weren't able to escape their fate." "It was in these waters, on a cold night in April, that Harold Cottam intercepted Titanic's plea for help, and through his bravery and diligence, over 700 people survived the greatest maritime disaster of its day." "It is their voices that have kept Titanic alive for decades, because without them, Titanic's remarkable tale would have vanished beneath the waves." "Like Gettysburg, or Arlington Cemetery," "Titanic is yet another graveyard that has become a cultural marker, a chilling reminder of the tests of courage that these landmarks represent." "The Titanic stays with us because it's timely, not because it's timeless, because we can keep finding new ways to tell the story." "The Titanic now has become a global legacy." "People all over the world are fascinated by it." "All of us can identify in some way." "Rich, poor, there's something in it for everyone." "We live in a time period today where human beings are not often shown on the nightly news to be their best." "And during the two hours and 40 minutes the Titanic took to sink, you have some amazing stories of selflessness and devotion and love and courage." "With each retelling of her tale, the story of Titanic continues to fascinate us, terrify us, and enlighten us." "Fundamentally, it's a story about the mystery of the human condition." "In a way, it's about the enduring relationship between humanity, machine, and implacable nature." "No matter what part of her story captures us," "Titanic will remain alive as long as artists, authors," "and filmmakers continue to tell her story." "From the jittery newsreels of her maiden voyage to the spectacular recreations of her sinking, we find a lesson to be learned from the great ship, and from the more than 2,000 passengers who lived and died aboard her." "When the Titanic sinks, that's a disaster." "But when the Titanic sinks and takes 1500 people with her, that's a tragedy, and it strikes home to every one of us, because we realise they weren't all that different than we are." "In an age when we are bombarded by images of death and disaster every day," "Titanic continues to remind us that behind each headline is a human face, with a story to be told, and a life to be remembered."