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APRIL 14, 2020
For those of you who have James Cameron’s TITANIC – regardless of format or media, please join me from our screening rooms globally for a historic event.
A simple question to Google I asked, “What day did the Titanic sink?” and while there were several different opinions, I decided to go with the information as shown in Modern Time Zones. Which meant that when she struck the iceberg and did go down, there were no time zones per say.
Here are the facts which if my math is right, an excellent opportunity awaits our screening rooms.
April 14, 1912. The time is 11:50pm. The ship strikes the iceberg.
The ship is 400 miles south of Newfoundland Canada. The time zone is 1 hour ahead of the ship’s destination, (in New York City 10:50pm).
According to history, it takes two- and one-half hours for her to go down. Leaving behind those who would perish in the cold waters, and those remaining on the lifeboats to be later picked up by the Carpathia.
Taking all of that into consideration, and given the length of James Cameron’s movie, I believe this to be correct but must be noted as approximate.
To verify this, I checked my 10th anniversary standard definition DVD. Finding the scene where it strikes the iceberg is 1:40 minutes into the progress of the movie.
Now if you live the east coast for example:
Start your feature only screening at 9:10pm. Yes, it will be a late night to bed. Remember to adjust for your time zones accordingly.
If the calculations are correct, you will observe the ship strike the iceberg on the same day and at the same time, when it happened, 108 years ago.
9:10PM
10:50PM
SAVE THE DATE.
PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO PERISHED ON THAT FATEFUL JOURNEY.
And that boys and girls, is why I like this hobby so much. We can see movies any day of the week in a method that not many people can these days. And that’s normal for us.
But only every once in awhile can you have such a screening that REALLY NAILS IT.
For those of you who have James Cameron’s TITANIC – regardless of format or media, please join me from our screening rooms globally for a historic event.
A simple question to Google I asked, “What day did the Titanic sink?” and while there were several different opinions, I decided to go with the information as shown in Modern Time Zones. Which meant that when she struck the iceberg and did go down, there were no time zones per say.
Here are the facts which if my math is right, an excellent opportunity awaits our screening rooms.
April 14, 1912. The time is 11:50pm. The ship strikes the iceberg.
The ship is 400 miles south of Newfoundland Canada. The time zone is 1 hour ahead of the ship’s destination, (in New York City 10:50pm).
According to history, it takes two- and one-half hours for her to go down. Leaving behind those who would perish in the cold waters, and those remaining on the lifeboats to be later picked up by the Carpathia.
Taking all of that into consideration, and given the length of James Cameron’s movie, I believe this to be correct but must be noted as approximate.
To verify this, I checked my 10th anniversary standard definition DVD. Finding the scene where it strikes the iceberg is 1:40 minutes into the progress of the movie.
Now if you live the east coast for example:
Start your feature only screening at 9:10pm. Yes, it will be a late night to bed. Remember to adjust for your time zones accordingly.
If the calculations are correct, you will observe the ship strike the iceberg on the same day and at the same time, when it happened, 108 years ago.
9:10PM
10:50PM
SAVE THE DATE.
PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO PERISHED ON THAT FATEFUL JOURNEY.
And that boys and girls, is why I like this hobby so much. We can see movies any day of the week in a method that not many people can these days. And that’s normal for us.
But only every once in awhile can you have such a screening that REALLY NAILS IT.
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