Corrected entry: When Brock Lovett opens the safe someone is taking a video. There are differences between what we see in the video camera monitor and what is actually happening, like the way Brock's hair falls over his forehead. (00:09:50)
Corrected entry: When the Titanic is departing Southampton they are using American tugboats, not the shorter English tugboats. (00:25:30)
Correction: This is incorrect. The tug boats depicted are British built vessels and can be seen on images taken of the Titanic when departing Southampton.
Corrected entry: After Molly Brown says, "Well there's something you don't see every day," we get a slow shot zooming in on the ship. Pay close attention to the door on the right side of the screen, just above the waterline, you can see lots of water gushing out. Water doesn't do that; it wouldn't rise above the sea level.
Correction: Yes it would if the pressure below decks is higher than atmospheric pressure. Or the water is being expelled by the ship's pumps, in an effort to slow down the sinking.
Corrected entry: Cal and Rose's cabin is on the port side of the ship. On the morning of 14 April, when they are having breakfast, the sun comes in through their windows directly from the side, and actually a bit from the front. As the ship was sailing West, that puts the sun in the Southwest where it only is in the afternoon.
Correction: That far north, at that time of the year, the sun is always in the southern part of the sky, both morning and afternoon.
Corrected entry: When the ship is leaving Southhampton, there is an underwater shot of all three propellers starting to rotate together. This is incorrect as the middle turbine engine ran of the waste low pressure steam from the outer wing reciprocating engines, thus the outer engines would have to be running for some time before steam was fed to the turbine. The turbine was only used when getting the ship up to full speed, not maneuvering in ports. Also the three props started revolving at 60-70 revolutions per minute, this was a speed that would have given the ship 19 - 21 knots and the ship would have been wrecked in The Solent/Southampton waters if she was lucky with no loss of life.
Correction: Correct, the central propeller was powered by a low pressure turbine taking waste steam from the port and starboard reciprocating engines but was not independently controlled. It would be set in motion virtually at the same time as forward gears were engaged. The only difference was the central prop would not engage whilst in reverse gear. Note that this was the first time Titanic was leaving Southampton and the shipping channel is very narrow so under tug power only, maneuvering a ship of that size required ships power to assist, so 60 / 70 revolutions, whilst would propel the ship at around 21 knots in the open sea, maneuvering would require bursts of such revolutions. If you notice, actual history records that Titanic's propellers created sufficiently strong suction that moorings broke on "SS New York" and brought her on a collision course with "Titanic"
Corrected entry: When the Titanic first set out in 1912, almost immediately after leaving the dock, the suction of her propellers drew in a neighbouring ship, the New York. It snapped its lines making sounds like gunshots and the ship came within several feet of slamming into the Titanic's stern. Only the quick thinking of the tugboat captains and Smith (who ordered a touch ahead on the port propeller) stopped it from actually making contact. You'd think that this event would've been at least noticed by Jack or Fabrizio who would've had front row seats, yet it's not mentioned at all in the movie.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Brock is reaching inside the safe to try and find the diamond, the sound of church bells can be heard in the background at various times.
Correction: The sound you're describing is so faint, indistinct, and muffled behind dozens of more prominent background noises that it could be the "clang" of any number of things aboard the ship.
Corrected entry: Jack hoists Rose up onto the railing at the front of the boat, and they stand there for several minutes. Having been at the front of a boat in San Francisco, I can say that the Jack and Rose would have been blown back and unable to stay on the railing due to the speed of the ship. Instead of a small breeze in Rose's hair, the wind would have been pushing them backwards.
Corrected entry: When Rose finds Jack in the room where he's handcuffed to the pipes, the bow of the Titanic is already under water so it's angled, but on the desk's upper edge, you can see that the water is still parallel to the floor.
Correction: An optical illusion. The angle in which the ship has sunk by this point is subtle and really only noticeable when looking at the larger scale of the whole ship. In smaller areas the differences are negligible, especially given that the water is rarely still.
Corrected entry: When Rose writes the note to put in the safe with Jack's drawing, she is using a fine-pointed pen. But when Cal retrieves the note later, the ink appears much darker and thicker, as if it had been written with a felt tip pen.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack is taking off his shoes & whatnot, Jack takes off his jacket twice.
Correction: No he doesn't; he has one jacket on which he takes off first, then he takes off a vest.
Corrected entry: The Titanic strikes the iceberg on the right side of the ship. But when we see the wall on the inside bow of the ship get torn up, it is obviously on the left side.
Correction: How can you distinct between what side it's on? Both of the sides are white and are curved outward. There is nowhere near enough evidence to conclude which side of the ship the water is entering.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack is going to sketch Rose, before she gets on the couch she hands him a coin: a Roosevelt dime, minted in 1946.
Correction: This has already been corrected at least once - it's a Barber dime, entirely correct for the period. Please check these things before submitting.
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the film, when the guy is showing old Rose the sinking simulation, it doesn't match what he's saying. In one place in particular, the lights switch off, then it cuts to an wide shot (you see the computer screen) and the lights go out again. This happens through-out the simulation.
Correction: After watching this scene a few times, you're right that he says things a little before they happen or vice versa, but that isn't a mistake, that is just human error. Also when he says something earlier than what is shown on the simulation; it gives him time to explain what is happening.
Corrected entry: When the ship is sinking, you see the propellers come out of the water. When they first do come out, they are in one position. Howver, when the ship splits in half, the propellers are in a completely different position, and they couldn't have turned by themselves.
Correction: Water pressure inside the engine room could have forced the shafts to turn while the ship was taking on water and sinking.
Corrected entry: When water crashes through the dome why is it that water isn't pouring through the windows a deck lower? One hasn't even broken from water pressure because there isn't any water even touching it. A moment before when we saw the smokestack fall, one could see the encasing of the dome and the stairs' roof was submerging. The windows below must be broken and flooding when the water is crashing through the dome. (02:36:35)
Correction: Glass is normally strong enough to withstand slight water pressure, and there is a probability that the windows are submerged on both sides, so the same force is imposed on each side of them, so they will not break.
Corrected entry: After the water has broken through the glass dome above the grand staircase and they show the water pouring down the hallway, you can see the dolly tracks as the camera goes back.
Correction: It's actually the pattern on the carpet that you are seeing. Pause the DVD as soon as the sequence starts.
Corrected entry: In the side view of the ship, you can see smoke coming out of all 4 smokestacks. The first one was not a working smokestack, but was there for balance.
Correction: The first smokestack was fully functional, as were the middle two. The aft most smokestack was a dummy funnel. It provided not balance but lighting and ventilation to the engineering spaces below decks. There were steam valves on it that could be mistaken for smoke while discharging, plus exhaust from the other 3 is blown backwards over the 4th, giving it the appearance of producing just as much smoke as them.
Corrected entry: When Rose and Jack join the steerage party he unbuttons his uncomfortable collar. Thereafter it hangs loose either in front of or behind the shoulders alternatingly. (01:05:00)
Correction: Well, everyone is dancing during the party, so his collar is most likely moving around because of how active he is.
Corrected entry: Titanic hits the iceberg and probably moves a few metres until the engines stopped. After that, Titanic doesn't move an inch. But in a later scene, it shows a wide range view of Titanic (very wide 'cause Titanic appeared small), yet the iceberg was nowhere in sight.
Correction: After the collision, the Titanic moves quite more than a few meters (remember she was going at full speed); and the iceberg is not likely to just stand close to the ship in order to appear in a shot some 15 minutes later, it keeps sailing on as if nothing happened.
Yes, because it is some time between when the berg hits and when Captain Smith gets to the bridge and orders all stop. Those things don't stop on a dime.
Correction: There is no differences between what we see on the video and and off the video.
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