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In 1997, the movie ‘Titanic’ made use of a handful of incredible models. A maritime engineering firm was commissioned to specially construct a 45 foot long model of the Titanic for the film – here is how it was used to create one of the movie’s most enduring shots!
Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history’s most famous ocean liners and machines!
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The film is returning to the big screen February 10th! (Not sure about outside of the US).
Your channel was suggested to me because I was digging thru youtube for behind the scenes Titanic vids a few months ago. Since then you’ve made a few Titanic videos and they are awesome! Great job, keep it up mate!
You can see at 12:56 that despite their attention to detail, they have the Union jack portion of the Blue Ensign upside down. The bottom right corner of the Union Jack canton shows a broad white stripe over a narrow red stripe; this should be on the top left, not the bottom right.
One thing that is Amazing and exciting is the movie is coming back to theaters February 10th
Cameron did a phenomenal job with the realism and accuracy! I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since Titanic was released. Going to see it in theaters this February! Haven’t seen it in theaters before!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for telling the story. Love it.
Very nicely done, Mike!
I have seen many references to that famous fly-over shot but I have yet to hear anyone talk about why the image of the model was flipped before the CGI effects were added. I remember almost jumping out of my seat in the movie theater during this scene when I noticed that the gymnasium on the boat deck was on the port side rather than where it belonged on the starboard. I can't believe that Cameron let a detail like this slide.
Wow I can't believe that the real titanic is just a set btw i love you're video's
This nails what I've always thought – one of the things which makes Cameron's film so powerful and enduring is that the ship itself is one of the main characters. Throughout the film she exists in the background as a sort of omnipresent creature and during the sinking, it does feel like a living thing is being wrenched apart and dying. That may be a bit over the top, but I think you know what I mean.
Conversely, one of the many things wrong with the film Pearl Harbor was that Bruckheimer didn't realize that some of the main characters in his film were the ships moored along battleship row – anyone who makes a film about Pearl has to establish in our minds that these ships were more than anonymous assortments of steel and guns. But rather than Arizona, Oklahoma, Maryland, Nevada, etc. we got a bunch of indistinguishable gray metal. It also didn't help that modern war ships were visible in the pass overs, but we could spend a day talking about the flaws in Pearl Harbor.
I am sure there are only few people in the world who know more about Titanic than you. What a fantastic and informative channel! And I like how you dress.
The biggest let down is actually the quality of the smoke and steam doesn't feel real.
What a great video Mike, can't wait to see more. I'm also hoping you'll get around to a video or two on Raise The Titanic, despite its many inaccuracies – I really do love that film, and the raising sequence was out of this world 🤩
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Most interesting…
There is a model that was bought by Mr. Able here in Lancaster Co., PA at the Christmas Museum.
Ship models were my first love in modeling. Battleships mostly, and then 18th century frigates. But the Titanic has always held a special place in my love of ships. I saw 'The Poseidon Adventure' in 1972 and their "Poseidon' (A copy of the Queen Mary) capsizing blew me away. As always I wished for a model but in those days there were none at all of either ship. Then when I was 14 I heard a rumor in early 1975 of a model of the Titanic and it was supposedly LARGE and EXPENSIVE. I searched the few model shops in Lafayette, La. that year and AMAZINGLY they had one!! My aunt took me down there with all my grass cutting earnings, some 30+ dollars but it was nowhere near the price on the kit of $75.00 I think. My Aunt quietly made up the difference an that jewel came home with me. I think the kit was made by "Entex"(?) Still have the box somewhere too. I spent all summer on it, it was magnificent! And I have it to this day. When I heard of this new Titanic movie I KNEW I'd be there but poot on the 'romance' I was in love with the SHIP. Everything about this huge gigantic filming model blows my mind. Can you imagine what those shipbuilders thought when Cameron showed up and said he wanted them to build a 45 ft copy of the "Titanic"? All the different models they built and the full size set ones they built to flood and return above water then flood again. I staggers my mind how much was spent on all of that. At the time I heard the cost of making the slightly smaller section of the full size ship was basically the same money spent on building the Titanic in the 1910's. Always makes me wonder, then why not just go ahead and DO IT?! BUILD the actual ship! Again I read somewhere someone was allegedly doing that but I think it fizzled out. Anyway the attention to detail on these models is fantastic. Just knocks me out. I hope I get to go to LA one day and see the actual model. It just KILLS me what movie companies blow to build something to film for a moment then basically they don't care about it anymore. Great video! Eagerly await your next one.
Fun fact – Marilyn Monroe (and Jane Russell) sailed on the Titanic in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'. The sets and model Titanic were pulled from the props warehouse stand for the 'Isle de Paris' – with three funnels and ventilators reminiscent of the Queen Mary replacing the Titanic's four. When the filming was done, the model was put back in storage till sold to a Minnesota shopping center where it was restored. When the mall put it back on offer it was to the maritime museum on Fall River, Massachusetts where it resides to this day…
Don't know what happened to the rest of the sets.
I guess people don’t realize how big the titanic is until they see a scale model that is longer than a school bus. You don’t get an idea of size until you see something that big in person.
As a kid, in the 1970s, I saw the huge (about 50 ft long) Titanic model used in the horrible adaptation of the Clive Cussler book "Raise the Titanic". It was being stored in the RV lot on the mole in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. It was built in California, and was waiting to be sent to Spain (??) for filming. Evidently it was abandoned afterwards on a film lot for decades, and only recently met it's end. There were calls to preserve it, but years of being out in the elements had caused it to be rusted beyond repair…
12:00 why is the paint faded? Because it was a brandnew ship!
The 1979 film "S.O.S. Titanic" was filmed in part on location on the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA..
I was amazed in '97 when I saw the movie, they did an incredible job. That 45' model is a priceless artifact now, I hope she is preserved for centuries.
I gotta wonder with all that work why didnt Cameron Contact ILM to do this instead of doing it in house, as the star trek models are some of the best in the business and reguarlly come close to pretty close to these dimensions, to say nothing of their work on the hunt for red october, and I think it might have been a mistake to reuse the guy from raise the titanic, as then you tie the ship into his style that he used 17 years prior, and I swear the ship seems off somehow, like its missing some of its length inbetween the funnels
as theirs a photo done by father browne, you know, the pbs tv show guy, as what a guy he got to sail on the titanic, and make a kick ass detective show while he was at it too! lol where when you see the thing in profile, it looks like theirs more space between them, like the thing strikes you like a stretch limo for the sea with how big it is
plus dont forget cameron and co didnt know about the break up section that they found a few years ago, which I wonder might have influenced this.
like I would be really curious to messure the distance between the funnels and put them back to back against that photo he took, as I wonder if this was scaled down to be in line with the break up model, which we know was scaled down to fit in the water tank.
The model from "Raise the Titanic" was even bigger
When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I saw a picture of the Titanic in a magazine, after that day I was just engulfed by facts gifts and books given to me by my relatives in attempt feed my hunger of knowledge about the ship. To this day, it still fascinates me.
Will you be watching the 25th anniversary release of Titanic (1997) this month in cinema in Australia? I read it's going to be 3D with a 4K resolution and 48 frame per second rate. Like the best Titanic experience one could ever imagine or think of having.