Raise The Titanic Film Model - 1979 To 2006

[Sarasdad91]

These are really good pics of the model. Thanks for posting.

[TheoryClipsFTW]

i would love to play with that in my bathtub

[DoctorBohr]

I never knew it was in Malta. I wonder where exactly. I was there in 2005, 2006 and 2008; if I'd known the model was too, I would have gone to see it. It kind of looks like Gozo.

[Sigma0283]

after all the damage inflicted on the model through out the years they might as well melt it down for scrap.

[epicxbuilder]

thumps up who you want that model i do

[CFDChris237]

Pirates!!!! 4:23

[caporalchef4]

A lot of innaccuracies...Like the foremast, fro instance.

[TheToodam]

Well, great different point is... no death aboard like the real one. This video is very nice, really fantastic anyway, love the job. Great work.

[Jonasluverch]

it looked soo real in the movie its incredible!

[SuperTerminatrix]

how stupid to let it fall apart. If it was me I would have made it like the original ship and make it R/C and put a lawn chair on the a deck and get on it and ride it in a lake :P

[number1spielbergfan]

From research on the internet, I found out this modelwas about 55ft. long and 12 ft. high.It was also the largest full model built to date.(Cameron's full size model only had half of the ship) In this sorrowful state it could possibly be restored by a museum, but the cost would be outragusly high. The idiot that left this thing of beauty out to rot should be the one to pay for the restoration if they ever save this model.

[03cryptic]

What an absolute damn shame :P Whoever let her rot SHOULD be feeling very sorry indeed (even though I'm sure they don't)

[scorand]

oh man i want that model..

[DualorProductions]

Thanks for the upload, great so how big the model actually was... shame it isnt like this anymore it appears :(

But thanks :)

[tashload]

They kept the film model of the iceberg in better shape by storing it in a freezer.

[germanname1990]

Wow, it's like the Titanic being raised only to wreck once again, this time on land. Reading a lot about the Titanic, though, I think the second funnel got the least attention out of the four funnels. I think this is the only time it got any attention.

[KCSXMAN]

i think after the movie they should at least put it somewhere it wouldn't look like that or at least sink it again were people could at least dive to it and see the once movie star model.

[philster61]

R.I.P John Barry. Your music is so fitting and so beautiful for RTT.

[pCneter]

wy they building in smoll sise just build it on scale 1.1 come its a start now the reel sise

[Amatersaru1]

it makes me feel physicly sick seeing any pictures taken under water cos my worst fear is drowning lol

[MrTitanicfanatic2]

I wonder if I could buy this

[alifajardo1999]

another misaccuracy: titanic originally had three out of four funnels smoking but in here it is all four that are smoking

[Stefandorf]

Great video! I don't know where the music is from but it sounds like a piece of John Barry.

[VwErik88]

Awsome video :D i have olways wonder how the reliy did that movie becouse it looks very real there :)

[Raainey]

Are they dropping sets and models over there?

[49bobbyk]

And so it goes.

[Tinsby]

Thank you for posting the shots of the model of the Titanic! These are views I have never seen anywhere. It's a tragedy that the model was allowed to disintegrate on land, just as the real one does 3 miles down. Why the model wasn't preserved is beyond me. Makes me sad to see what's left of it, if anything at all remains now. Utterly inexcusable to let it rot away, in spite of all it's shortcomings.

[Vladislaw81]

THEY ARE IDIOTS!

[sockbucket]

Raise the titanic the film was such an abortion.

[XzCroc]

On pictures this modell looks better than in the movie.

[BMan100]

why did they paint her in Britannic colours??

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@BMan100 - The model was used for long distance shots for a German made drama about WWI back in 1990.

[BMan100]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 ah I see. cool stuff. thanks for the info.

[generaltodd2]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 and what was the name of that movie?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@generaltodd2 - "Gluhender Himmel"

[DaBoogie049]

this is the most detailed and beautiful titanic model i´ve ever seen! will it get under restoration sometime?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@DaBoogie049 - Sadly no. The film prop is now beyond repair or restoration.

[MrTitanicfanatic2]

@DaBoogie049 I am going to go to Malta and buy that thing someday because in a few years they wont be legally allowed to sell it for very much. SO I will try to restore it

[ARSA525]

@MrTitanicfanatic2 How are you going to ship it to your country?

[MrTitanicfanatic2]

@ARSA525 I dont care if I have to go and get it myself. I am going to get a hold of this thing and make it beautiful.

[FreddyFreak19]

right what i want to know is why the fuck this model was allowed to get in this state??

[saletious]

Isnt it weird, it's like the actual ship, and anything that has to do with her, has almost a "curse" on them.

[UPX4014]

Since the original model is too far gone to restore, I wonder if it would be possible to

to start a fundraising campaign to build another just like the original? Complete in every detail minus the cowl vents on either the side of the mast. Probably won't happen, but it's just a thought.

[PatrickVida]

what a pity. it was very beautifully built!

[TheCrimsonImbecile]

did it appear as Britannic in something?

[TheRMSAndre1]

I think the truth is, that if the model hadnt been built so tough to keep up all the raising scenes, it wouldnt exist anymore. It has help up for 30 years and i think its plenty for a model that size and like it has been kept. The model may not be restaurable, because all the metal details are rusted away and stolen, but the progress of decaying can be slowered down.

[TheRMSAndre1]

I think the truth is, that if the model hadnt been built so tough to keep up all the raising scenes, it wouldnt exist anymore. It has help up for 30 years and i think its plenty for a model that size and like it has been kept. The model may not be restaurable, because all the metal details are rusted away and stolen, but the progress of decaying can be slowered down.

[Soundwave3591]

there may be a small semblance of hope. in Maine, a man by the name of William Terra has built a Large, drivable model of the German Battleship Graf Spee. although not on the scale of the Titanic model, it is impressive. and if he can do it, someone else can do the Titanic!

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@Soundwave3591 - Still, there is no hope for the RTT model due to her present condition. You move that model in the cradle, she'll break apart.

[Soundwave3591]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 it is a shame, but perhaps some entrepreneur can do a large model based off the RTT model.

[Abricialio]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 I think the RTT movie model will collapse like the Olympic back in the 1935's. The thing you see, had happened to the Olympic when she was waiting some months longer. The Olympic was crapped duo the holes and rust in her hull, and all funnels would possible have collapse if they didn't scrapped her. In 1934 there were plans to save the Olympic and turn it into a hotel museum, but it failed..

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@Abricialio - Olympic scrapped due to holes and erodings plates? Sounds like a myth to me and a wild story at that. Where did you hear such a story?

[Abricialio]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 Weird. Because I read on a Olympic fan website that the construction was getting weak in the early 1930's. And Sander, the man who know very much about the Olympic told me also. If you look at some pictures of the Olympic in HD-quality you can clearly see rust.

[BarryDennen12]

Yeah, it's bunkum. The Olympic was in pretty fantastic shape when they killed it.

The Aquitania was the one that was falling to bits.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@BarryDennen12 - The French were going to buy the Olympic and turn her into a hotel. But the 30s recession put an end to that.

[TouchedMyDreams]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 How can the French buy a ship that has been scarped since 1936?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@TouchedMyDreams - They made an offer before she was scrapped.

[TouchedMyDreams]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 Thats a big hotel. I'm glad the French didn't get her, look how they treated the, SS Nomadic. Shockin'

[Soundwave3591]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 well, she was built in 1910-1911. by 1935, she was going on 20+ years old. that's equal to a 65-year old man in terms of condition and wear and tear. most ships that do not see frequent dry-dock maintenance don't last more than 20 years, except maybe warships.

[ilovelbt]

wow what an amasing model that would be awsome if they hadnt destroied it and what would be even cooler would be if who made the model put remote controls in it wow great model

[philster61]

Its almost as if the model is following the same slow progression of deterioration as the Titanic herself. Sad to see it. Could the model ever be restored to former glory?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

The model is now beyond repair.

[TheRMSAndre1]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 I think the truth is, that if the model hadnt been built so tough to keep up all the raising scenes, it wouldnt exist anymore. It has help up for 30 years and i think its plenty for a model that size and like it has been kept. The model may not be restaurable, because all the metal details are rusted away and stolen, but the progress of decaying can be slowered down.

[hecrpd]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 not nesessarily.The hull could still be used,and the rest of the ship would hav to be built from scratch.

[philster61]

Excellent excellent posts..

[Milvert08]

I am sad, on how they treated the Titanic model. They should have maintained the ship and used it for exhibition shows. If it was in it's original states, I believe it's worth would be great. What a waste!

[JABORG666]

Its a pity they could'nt have removed those awful cowl vents by the foremast on the S.S. Athinai and therefore made the model more accurate.

[JerichoOne]

Hello. Thank you very much for sharing with us these photos. Does this mean that the production team shot scenes of the sinking that never made it to the final cut? Thanks!

[TheRMSAndre1]

I think theres no pint in searching the owners...if theres an interest to the model, just pay some money to the guys in malta and maybe a bit illegaly remove the model and take it where ever you want. I dont think the real owner who own it now or the owners of the filmpark care of the model.

[ATITANIC1992]

Who owns that model?

Who is responsible for that model?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

Please read the caption to the video on the right hand side. Thanks.

[bad66chevelles]

wow wonder what scale it is?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@bad66chevelles - I believe it is 1/12th scale

[nacnud1]

thats really upsetting! they could have put it on display somewhere! the stupid idiots!!!

[SOUPENE]

JUST SAD!!!!!

[TheRMSAndre1]

I jst had to make a user to comment your videos jonathan... :D

In 2:54 the model is pretty rusty and everything, but as ive read the model was kept inside a building and not outside in a pool...later the model was but outside but i didnt know the model rusted away in the earlier years in water...where is it on that pic??? And another Q: as ive read there was a 6 foot model too..is it on some pic cause id really like to see where it was used in the film?

[TheRMSAndre1]

One more Q: Do you have any pics how the odel looks now in present? In year 2007-...2010???

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

I have only one (1) photo of the model taken in early 2008.

[TheRMSAndre1]

could you please send me that photo...i woudl really like to see what it looks today..or maybe just tell me what has happened to it? how well has it preserved?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

While the film was doing the rounds at the cinama, the 55ft model was put into storage for almost a year. When the storage bills could not be met, the model was put outside. It was moved around the Malta film studios over the coming years, but still remained outside. The model was made to look rusty, its paint FX.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

The 6ft model vanished after the film. It is still unclear to what happened to it. That model was used in the sonar pool in the film when the scientists drop a "white" model of the ship to test where it lands. The model was later used again for a couple of distant shots of the ship coming to the surface during the raising sequence. This is when the big model was to big for those shots.

[TV843]

@ 1:33 and 1:48 are good shots of two posts on either side of the forward mast. I'm assuming these were added for the movie? I've seen similar posts on other ships but have never seen them on any photos or models of Titanic. As a Titanic modeler myself, I'm curious about them. Any word?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

The Titanic model, when almost completed was 95% accurate at the time. The film studios needed a ship to film onboard scenes of the "just" raised Titanic. The only ship they could find was liner built in the early 1930s, named ATHINAI. This liner had two tall vents either side of the forward mast. The films FX crew replicated these vents and put them onto the Titanic model. It never occured to them that the ATHINAI was going to be scrapped, so they could have removed them.

[TV843]

That's some fascinating stuff. Thanks for the info! If you get a chance, stop by and see my 1:400 Titanic. I had some problems with my camera so it's a bit foggy, but you'll get the idea.

[migbellic]

poor titanic,it is like a living thing suffering from a disease.starting from a beautiful ship now,just a bunch of scrapped metal what dumbasses!!,sorry for the word they just let it rot.

[underkillTV]

why was it in brittanic colours?

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

It was used in a war docu in 1990.

[underkillTV]

thanks you know where i can see it

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

Film studios, Malta.

[underkillTV]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 no, where i can see the documentry on britannic? cheers

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@underkillTV - No Idea, I'm afarid. I have never seen the docu myself.

[underkillTV]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 thanks for your knowledge n help

[Soundwave3591]

@RaiseTheTitanic1980 judging by the poor quality of that Brittanic paintjob, i'd say it was an attempt to cover up her deterioration.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

@Soundwave3591 - The Britannic paint job was poor to start with. The model was only seen from a distance during a night shot.

[evilwarcow]

I really wish that I could go there and just restore the whole thing or at least if I can't then bury it in a box. BUT DANG IT ALL TO HECK PEOPLE YOU ARE RIGHT!!!! It is a shame and a crime to see such a model that was once such a beautiful thing to fall apart like how it is falling apart. And knowing that Ken Marshall had done some work on this model really makes it sadder to see such fine works of his going to waste like such.

[1MattDamon]

What idiots to let this model go to waste. Ken Marschall did such a great job on this model..

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

Marschall 'only' supervised its construction.

[1MattDamon]

Like I said Ken being involved is a blessing for Titanic because he brings her to life.

[JABORG666]

Clive Cussler was so disgusted with the film that he said no to every film company that wanted to adapt a film from one of his books.

[tscastro114]

Yeah until, he gave the go ahead for his novel "Sahara" to be turned into a movie. Then Cussler got so mad of them making changes from what was in his novel to the screen, he sued the producers of the film. So it is highly unlikely, we'll see another Clive Cussler novel be turned to a movie anytime soon. However, a year after RTT came out, Cussler saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and claimed that was how RTT should have been, fast pace and a lot of action.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

'Sahara' was a odd affair, as Cussler was advisor on the film, yet he didn't like the film, or so they say.

[tscastro114]

It's just another best examples He said, She said (or in this case They said).

[Maxobillion]

It's a crime that they let this model fall apart.

A CRIME I TELL YOU!

[thattaityguy]

These are amazing pictures of the making and construction of the model

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

Thank you :O)

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

Also. . . . the model (in 1980) was far to big to keep moving around.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

The problem is. . . . the model is just a movie prop model and not a long term museum piece.

[1MattDamon]

Well make a museum piece, Ken Marschall was involved with this model that alone makes it a museum piece. Now fix it ..Morons.

[DanielHami23]

How could someone do that to a Titanic Model

They could of planned to use that model for 2012 but now its destroyed.

[Zarathustra799]

that's sad. some idiot decided to vandalize it! I liked it in its brittanic appearance, though. :)

wonder who did that and why?

[Zarathustra799]

nevermind. I just read the description. ;)

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

Can you imagine what it must have been like for someone who worked in the model FX department and who was a fan of the Titanic, being handed a hammer to twist all those railings, windows and given the machine that sprayed out concrete to create that effect all over the model. I certainly couldn't have done it, regardless of pay.

[AROBASPARK]

That model should have been on the Smithsonian or the British Maritime Museum in London !! When I saw an image of it like 4 years ago, funnel #3 fell backwards, Now is WAY too worse than I remember. :(

Best DAMN model ever made. Farewell Titanic!!

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

In hindsight, the model should have been sold to a collector for restoration, even way back in 1981. But it would have cost a huge amount of money to have restored that model back to its former glory, even in 1981 after the model FX department turned it into the wreck.

[tscastro114]

My god. The model shouldn't have deserved this fate. I mean I find it an outrage that whoever took over ITC thought the model was bad luck after the film bombed at the box office. So judging by this, the only way the model would have been in better shape is if the film had been a hit.

In fact the Titanic model used in the 1953 film almost met a similar fate like the RTT model, but it was saved in a nick of time.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

What we have to remember is that the model is 'only' but a film prop, and a very expensive one at that. The model could only ever be used in Malta because of its shear size. When the model was built, they hadn't taken its size into account. The deep water tank was built AFTER the model was finished. Its size and weight clearly prevented the model from going elsewhere, other than to stay in Malta.

[felipe929258]

poor model!

os worst than the ship itself!

[TitanicMatthew]

A Tragic Waste. I Wonder How She's Changed Since 06'

Its Horrible To See Her In Such A State

[tscastro114]

I know. It makes me want to cry to see it like it is now. I'm afraid of what is going to happen next is the current owner(s) who took over ITC will see the remains of the R.T.T. being sold for scrap. I mean to scare anyone here, but that's possibly may be the next voyage for the model unless there is another solution. Jonathan's summary in the info box for this video pretty much explains why it has been so hard to save it over the past 25 years.

[roaklin]

It amused me the ship "grew" air colwings on her foredeck from 1912 to her raising. However while I hated the model's builders for the flaws they did to her, it is still sad to see the model reduced to a decayed wreck.

[RaiseTheTitanic1980]

For those who are wondering as to where the 2nd funnel came from in latter images of the wreck, that is the complete funnel from when the model was in her late 1979 appearance (1912 Titanic). Other funnels were made for the film, including the one you see on the sea floor and the broken one that was fitted to the "raising" model.