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Topic: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER 1 x400ft
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Patrick Walsh
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From: Christchurch, New Zealand
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted August 14, 2007 04:24 AM
I am unsure who put this one out but I think it was Powell films, in the late 60s/early 70s, a nice edited version of the in my case the best film about the Titanic ever made.
Film begins with the launching of the ship (stock footage of one of the queens and another ship I think)As the credits begin to roll we then cut to the interior of the wireless room (it would of been nice to see a shot of the ship just to set the scene)we see various scenes of the ship's crew as well as that of the Californian, the ship hits the berg and the shit hits the fan so to speek, we cut to the Carpathis sailing and full steam to the Titanic, Keeneth Morr's Officer Lightoller takes charge and we see him swept of the deck as the boat deck is awashed, the ship rises and sinks with the passengers still onboard saying prayers as it slides under, cut to the lifeboats we then see Lightoller in the water swim to the upturned lifeboat and takes charge, then we see a shot that is not in either the VHS or DVD versions (could be in the origonal 35mm/16mm releases) of a person passing the baby child to Lightoller, he sees if it is alive (it is not) then he puts it back into the water.
We cut to the Carpathis as she arrives on the scene where we see the lifeboats and their occupants getting the attention of the ship, we fade to a nice stock fottage shot of the real Carpathia sailing , we see Lioghtoller talking to the Capt about the dead, THE END fades in over a nice shot of the water with life jackets floating by.
A nice digest but the picture quality is not that good being over exposed on some shots and having a unsteady picture, sound is very good has the J ARTHUR RANK gong at the start.
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Patrick Walsh
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 723
From: Christchurch, New Zealand
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted August 15, 2007 03:04 PM
Hi Lee
Yes I am a Titanic fan, I have been for years,Some relation of mine's great uncle died on the Titanic so I suppose there is a connection there, I am cutrrently trying to get titanic on film at the moment so far I have the 1x400ft TITANIC 1953, 1x400ft A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, RAISE THE TITANIC 16mm feature, and RAISE THE TITANIC trailer in 35mm, I have noticed that Perry's movies list has the 53 Titanic on the Ken Films 200ft version,
I have them all on dvd but on film is something else! One I do recomend everyone to get is the 1943 German Titanic, I got it from Kinovideo.com and the DVD is very good with alot of the special effects used in A NIGHT TO RMEMBER without credit, also there is some great special features including a 1920s White Star Line advertising film on board the OlYMPIC and the newsreel that came out after the sinking showing Capt Smith and the OLYMPIC aka TITANIC ![[Smile]](smile.gif) .
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