Titanic 1912 Newsreel (original)

Here is one of the original theatre newsreels that was shown to the eager public following the Titanic disaster. Although this footage is labelled up and presented to show the Titanic, the footage vessel shown is Titanic's older sister Olympic and filmed in New York during the summer of 1911. Captain Edward John Smith is seen wearing the White Star Lines summer uniform. We see views of life onboard the vessel prior to and departing from the New York return voyage. Captain Smith is seen on the bridge and Starboard bridge wings, watching the activity on the dockside and forward well-deck below him. We see passengers walking the A-Deck promanade and aft decks of Boat Deck, A Deck and B Deck. We also see views across the Poop Deck that show some of the ships telegraphs and phones on the stern docking bridge. We also get a chance to view the Boat Deck with lifeboats in position, looking from aft towards the bow.

The footage then cuts to scenes of the rescue ship Carpathia, onboard the liner as crew of the small Cunarder play around for the camera man. Her Captain, Auther Rostron is seen along with young members of the crew passing information to dockside press.

In all, this is a sad but historic reminder of not only the early reactions to the Titanic disaster, but also a reminder to the early days of cinamaphotography.

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[atw11bear]

There was never a Jack Dawson. This character was fictional made up for the 1997 film. There was however a Joseph Dawson who was a 23 year old who worked as a trimmer in the engine room. He is the one buried in the titanic cemetery.

[Aaron L]

Even though it isn't actually the Titanic in the video footage, it's still an amazingly historical video from a what is now a century ago. It just feels so surreal.

[scabycat]

It was actually captain Stanley Lord of the Californian- so much for ur research!!

[AguilarMane]

They had swag even then

[Rafael Costa]

Esse ai é o rms olympic antes do naufragio do rms titanic e durante a construçao do hmhs britannic

[Jessica Neverland]

This is kind of chilling, in all honesty.

[nawwafbatook]

Wow

[tristanharley11008]

And you don't have to be 25 or older just to have a kid, my aunt had my cousin at 18, and my mom had my sister when she was 19

[tristanharley11008]

I didn't say it was 1812 dipshit