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The crew was reflected in Rose's television.
The crew was reflected in the glass door opened for Jack as he enters the dining room.
The crew was reflected in a brass panel on the front door of the Renault that Jack and Rose find in the cargo hold.
Jack wins his ticket by beating 2 pair with a full house. However, when we first see Jack's hand, he has nothing that could be made into a full house, and he only draws one card.
When Captain Smith orders, "Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch -- lets; stretch her legs", they are standing to the right of the wheelhouse looking forward with the sun coming from their left. When Murdoch walks into the wheelhouse to carry out the order, the sun is behind him.
The draft markings on the Titanic's bow when Jack looks at the dolphins later change size and position.
In the scene where Jack is teaching Rose how to spit, there is no spit on his chin as he starts to turn around to face the ladies, but by the time he has completed his turn he has some on his chin.
Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are still standing apart.
The length of Rose's fingernails throughout the movie.
The sea water would be at or below the freezing point, yet characters rarely display discomfort or disablement from being immeresed.
That porthole is shown to be several feet below water, yet in a shot from inside the room, the surface of the water is visible inches above the porthole.
The broken glass that the axe sits behind.
A strip of desert is visible between the dock and the Titanic when docked at Southampton.
While Jack and Rose are walking on the promenade the day after he rescues her, a small hill with a building on it is visible over Jack's shoulder and above the ship.
In the same shot, the faces of Jack and Rose are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.
Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, which wasn't created until 5 years after the Titanic sank.
Jack claims to have visited the Santa Monica Pier, which did not begin construction until 1916.
The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not developed until 1946.
A closeup of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing contact lenses.
The button of the left side of Jack's borrowed jacket is a "Kingsdrew" button, first made in 1922.
"Almighty Father Strong to Save" is sung during the worship service; the two verses used in the film were written by Robert Nelson Spencer in 1937.
The gauges in the engine room are fitted with sweated tubing fittings, a plumbing technique not available when the ship was constructed. The fittings should have been threaded brass.
Margaret Brown was never referred to as "Molly" until after her death.
The painting over the fireplace in the Titanic's first class smoking lounge in the film depicts New York Harbor, which was actually the painting on the Titanic's sister ship, "Olympic". The painter, Norman Wilkinson, had provided a scene of Plymouth Harbor for Titanic, but no pictures of this work survive.
The main characters have lunch in the Palm Court/Verandah on A Deck. These were not used for dining, although passengers could order tea or a small snack.
Cal orders lamb with mint sauce for himself and Rose. Lamb was only available for dinner on the ship, while mutton was reserved for lunch. The lamb was prepared in the D Deck galley and would not have been served in the Palm Court.
The worship services held at 10:30 on Sunday, April 14, 1912, in the First Class Dining Room were open to all passnegers on the ship.
During the scene when Rose "flies" from the ship's bow, the sunlight is clearly falling almost exactly staight across the ship from left to right. On the evening of the 14th, the ship would have been steaming somewhere between WSW and SW; the lighting in the movie would indicate that the sun is between SSE and SE, when it actually would have been between W and WNW.
The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. They actually belong to director James Cameron.
Workers in the Titanic's engine room had to wear thick protective clothing to shield them from the heat generated by the engines.
There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area (and no access to any but authorized crew.) If there had been a door, it would have entered the third class area aft, not the one where the Renualt was located.
The disaster message that the radio operator starts clicking out on the telegraph key is not intelligible Morse code.
When Captain Smith enters the wheelhouse, the ship's telelgraph is set to "Full Reserve" instead of "All Stop."
Jack is supposedly held prisoner in the Master-at-Arms' office, which is depicted as having a porthole. On the Titanic, this room was an interior room and hence had no portholes.
It is impossible for voices to echo in the middle of the North Atlantic unless there is a large, flat object like a ship nearby.
We are shown a shot of Rose's view of the Statue of Liberty from a ship, yet to obtain a view as indicated she would have to be on land.
Some artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic included a number made of paper, which were saved by being in leather bags and such; it is therefore possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.
The tugs that assisted the Titanic away from the Southampton dock did belong to the company known today as the Red Funnel Line, but they had not yet adopted that nickname or color scheme. As shown in the film, the actual tugs had beige funnels.
Although the Titanic's fourth smokestack was not an exhaust avenue for the ship's engines, it was used as an outlet for the Titanic's massive kitchen. Since Titanic used coal stoves, some smoke would have been coming out the fourth smokestack. In one of the flyovers of the ship, it is possible to see that most of the top of the fourth smokestack is sealed.
It is often claimed that there is a tattoo visible on Rose's arm in the scene where she is committing suicide. It is actually a moon shaped black dot- some embellishement that has come loose from her robe, clearly visible in closer shots.
It has been stated that the paintings in Rose's room are famous works that did not go dowm with the Titanic. The paintings were by artists noted for creating many similar paintings.
Although her fingers partially obscure it, the coin that Rose gives to Jack is generaly agreed to be a Barber dime, minted 1892-1916. The Barber dime is distinctive because of the portrait of Liberty on the head of the coin faces the right, not the left.
After the iceberg is spotted, First Offficer Murdoch bellows a helm order: "Hard-a-starboard!" But Quartermaster Hichens, manning the wheel, turns the counter-clockwise, or to port. At first glance, this would seem to be a mistake. The order itself, "Hard-a-starboard," was a holdover from the earlier days when the tiller of a ship would be used to control the rudder. Pushing the tiller to the right (starboard) would cause the ship to turn to the left (port). So a turn to port was ordered by calling "hard-a-starboard". Sources differ on which way the wheel had to be turned to actually carry out this order. Directer James Cameron is on record as being aware of the possible confusion that turning the wheel in the "wrong" direction might create, but decided to include it to be as accurate as possible.
The "middle finger" gesture was used as ealy as the late 19th century.
Young Rose's eyes appear green in some scenes due to colored lighting from flares, etc..
The gun that Cal uses to go after Rose and Jack was Colt 45M1911, created in 1910. The gun holds 7 bullets in the clip with an 8th in the chamber. Cal did not pull back the slide (which would have ejected a bullet) before shooting and fired exactly 8 shots.
There is much disagreement over the last song played by the band before the ship sank. Wallace Hartley's family firmly believe that it was "Nearer, My God, to Thee" as shown in the film, and indeed had this inscription placed on his tombstone, as do the majority of witnesses. According to Junior Wireless Operator Harold Bride, the band played the song "Songe d'Automne", which has some similar sections. The hymn itself has been set to at least three melodies in the nineteenth century, of which the American Lowell Mason's 1856 melody, heard in this film, is only one. Night to Remember, A (1958), uses John B. Dykes' melody from the English Hymnal.
There are two independent reports that an officer shot one or more passengers, gave a "military" salute, and then committed suicide. There is no evidence to indicate that this was First Officer Murdoch, however.
t is often presumed that it is impossible for people floating in unfrozen water to have ice form in their hair. This is not the case. On the Titanic on April 14th, 1912, the air temperature dropped over ten degrees Farenheit (5.6 C) between 7 pm and 10 pm. Even assuming that the average temperature decrease slowed by half during the next four hours (when the victims were in the water), the temperature of the air would be below 25 F (-4 C). This is not unreasonable, as there were no clouds to keep ambient temperature up. By convection, the temperature of the air immediately above the surface of the water would certainly approach this temperature. Freezing point depression of a fluid depends only on the amount of material in the fluid. Average sea water has less than 2 moles of ions per kilogram of water. This means that isolated sea water freezes at temperatures between 28 and 25 F (-2 to -4 C). Assuming that the victims in the water hair wet and as long as the air temperature was below 25-28 F, then it is quite reasonable for their hair to freeze.
The lifeboats for RMS Titanic were in fact labeled "SS Titanic".
The credits explain that some dramatic license has been taken; this is apparent with several minor characters. For example, Benjamin Guggenheim's mistress, Madame Aubert, never dined in the First-Class Dining Saloon; she took all of her meals in the a la Carte restaurant on B-Deck.
Various other minute contradictions of history. This film is prey to a large number of factual errors due to the large volume of documentary evidence from the actual event.
The scene in which Ruth is tying Rose's corset was originally written the other way around. However, Cameron and the actors decided that the scene would be more powerful if Rose was the one getting the corset tied. It is supposed to symbolize Ruth "tightening both the laces and the confines of Rose's gilded cage."
The spitting scene in which Rose spits in Cal's face was entirely Kate Winslet's idea. The first spitting scene took 27 takes before it was just right. Poor Cal!
The doll that Little Cora has throughout the film is identical to the one seen at the beginning of the film in the wreckage.
The rooms that Caledon Hockley, Rose DeWitt Bukater, and Ruth DeWitt Bukater occupied (B52, B54, and B56) were actual rooms on the real Titanic, booked to Bruce Ismay.
The drawing scene is the first scene Kate and Leonardo did together. Cameron says that Leo likes challenges. This is thus the "challenge" that Leo had to undertake.
When Jack is preparing to draw Rose, he tells her to "Lie on that bed, uh, I mean couch." The line was scripted "Lie on that couch," but DiCaprio made an honest mistake and Cameron liked it so much he kept it on.
Jack's sketch of Rose wearing the necklace was drawn by Cameron; it's his hands we see drawing the picture. And he is trying his best to draw right-handed because he is a lefty. Cameron also drew all the other pictures in Jack's sketchbook.
In the scenes where the ship was sinking, breath from the passengers had to be added by computer. This was because they had to create the feeling that it was absolutely freezing and the filming had actually ben done in 80 degree weather in Mexico.
When Rose is afloat on the wood looking up at the stars, there is a vague image of the necklace. It is outlined by brighter stars shaping the heart loosely, and a few bright stars shaping the chain.
At the end of the movie, when Rose joins Jack in the afterlife, the hands of the clock Jack is looking at are stopped at 2:20 am, a very significant time for it was the time that the Titanic sank.
Not everyone liked Titanic. Members of the Scottish National Party have been demanding an apology from James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox for portraying First Officer William Murdoch killing a passenger and then shooting himself. The party, and the residents of Dalbeattie, Murdoch's hometown in Scotland, said that in reality he "behaved heroically in assisting passengers to reach lifeboats."
Kate Winslet had to lobby very hard for the part of Rose because James Cameron was originally skeptical of her playing the part. However, he saw how passionate she was about the part and gave it to her.
The name of the character Caledon Hockley derives from two small towns near Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, where Cameron's aunt and uncle live.
All the extras in the film went through an etiquette class so they would know how people in 1912 talked, moved, and acted. The waiters learned how to serve and what to say.
The faces of the frozen people in the ocean were covered with a medical adhesive powder that crystallizes when water touches it. The hair and the clothing were covered in wax.
On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder. 80 people were taken ill, many hospitalized with hallucinations. Bill Paxton felt listless for 2 weeks after the incident.
The scene with Titanic leaving the Southampton dock, was filmed on the largest movie set ever made, in Baja California. Due to the immensity of the ship, and logistical reasons, the ship only had rivets on one side. Because of this, the crew had to film some of the scenes as mirror images. The vehicles, crew uniforms, signs on buildings, and the boat, and costumes, were all made backwards for certain scenes, and the film flipped over.
Some of the scenes were based on actual historic photographs. For instance, when Jack jumps over the rail onto the boat before cornering Rose in the gym, you'll notice a boy playing with a top, as adults applaud the working of the novel toy. If you comb through the few actual photos from the Titanic, you'll find this scene (minus Jack of course!).
Chief Baker (and chief drinker) Charles Joughin attributed his survival to the amount of alcohol he had drank during the disaster. When Jack and Rose are clinging to the rail together as the ship tilts upward, he can be seen nearby, taking a drink from this flask. He really was there, and rode the ship down into the water just like in the movie. He then treaded water for a while, and swam to a lifeboat. When he boarded the lifeboat, reportedly, his hair was still dry.
Kate Winslet was nearly drowned shooting one critcal scene and Leonardo DiCaprio was almost trampled by a horse.
Director James Cameron put safety first, even though there were many close calls while lensing the mesmerizing drowning and lifeboat scenes, the floating bodies, and the falls from the sinking ship.
Winslet was so bruised during filming, she looked like a "battered wife." She also suffered from hypothermia.
During the love scene, DiCaprio wore dark body makeup and Winslet wore white body powder. When they rolled around in each other's arms under the hot lights in that Renault car, they ended up melting and getting their makeup all over each other. They thought it was funny that the makeup people had to rush in between takes to get the brown stuff off Kate and the white off Leo. Cameron even gave DiCaprio lip for his poor kissing. He didn't think that the kisses were passionate enough. He told Leo, "Just grab her and stick your tongue in her mouth, kiss her like you mean it!"
