The First Titanic Movie Released 85 Years Before Cameron's (But It's Lost)
James Cameron’s Titanic is the most famous and successful movie about the real-life tragedy of the Titanic, but the very first movie about it came out a month after the ship sank, starred one of the survivors, and is now a lost movie. James Cameron is now synonymous with big-budget productions, mostly from the sci-fi genre, but one of his biggest and most successful movies was from a very different genre: Titanic, a disaster drama movie released in 1997 and which at the time was the most expensive movie ever made.
Although it’s based on the accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Cameron’s film tells the fictional story of Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), two passengers from opposite social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Jack and Rose weren’t based on any real-life passengers of the Titanic, but through them, many characters who were based on real-life people were introduced, such as Molly Brown (Kathy Bates) and Captain Smith (Bernard Hill), and while the sinking of the Titanic really happened, the movie took many creative liberties. Still, Titanic won a number of awards, is still regarded as one of the best movies from the 1990s, and it’s the best-known film adaptation of the tragedy of the ship, but it's definitely not the only one.
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The very first movie about the sinking of the Titanic was released on May 16, 1912, just one month after the tragedy. Titled Saved from the Titanic, this silent short film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and written by Dorothy Gibson, an American actress who was also a survivor of the Titanic. Gibson, along with her
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