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Andrew Wilson
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 784
From: dundonald,belfast,co.antrim,northern ireland.
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted June 09, 2007 06:49 AM
Well here my view on this 1980 movie released by Derann in 1984 on super 8.Anyway here goes...
When the 45,000 ton luxury liner RMS TITANIC,struck a iceberg on April 14th,1912,its fate has fascitnated Hollywood,and film makers,the world over.
That godfather of the British enteratinment,lord grade,for ITC,came up with this title.It sank at the box office and put Grade in the red.
Most of its huge budget was spent on the enormous water tank,holding nine million gallons of water,built in Malta to accommadate the 55ft long replica of this famous ship.
So what of the feature on super8?I had not seen this movie in years and so sat down and let the story unfold...
The story is that some seventy years before,the US,got some Colorado miners to extract a rare new mineral called Byzanium from a little island just off the Artitic circle...
Back in the present,the Americans have apparently devised a way of makeing their whole country impregnable from nuclear attack.
The one mineral they need for this super defence system is the ore Byzanium..we know at this point were the stuff now lies...
The Amercians must find,then raise the titanic!
The scientists first port of call,is the ships sole crew member,still living,non other than Sir Alec Guinness,in what is billed as a guest apperance-which i suspuect meant a fat fee for a couple of days work!
Then begins the long and slow process of first locating and then raising the rusting hulk.After a good deal of talk,the massive carcess eventully begins to move upward,this is really quite spectacular as the ship breaks the surface,and is seen being towed into New York harbour-some brillant matte shots here;theres
no C.G.I.crap in this movie!
However there is a minor twist.The vault is opened,and the boxes
contain,nothing but gravel..so where is the elusive Byzanium...?
I bought this title,second hand,and i will tell you one thing.
The print is still outstanding,as is the sound.
Okay maybe the plot is a little less meaty,but the late great
DEREK SIMMONDS was very ,very proud of this releae,and i can see why.The model work,and matte shots are faultless,this is what can
be done,without the aid of a computer..right down to the last rivet.Excelent..Andy.
PRINT A+
SOUND A+
P.S This feature was released in both flat and scope.
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Andrew Wilson
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 784
From: dundonald,belfast,co.antrim,northern ireland.
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted June 10, 2007 02:08 PM
Yes Chip,you are correct.The TITANIC did spilt into two pieces,as
Bob Ballard found in 1985.However,when Raise was made,it was thought that the ship went down in one piece.
This was because of the witness at the time of the inquest,following the disater,stated the ship went down in one piece.They never saw the ship break into two!.Andy.
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