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Saved from the Titanic

1912 · Étienne Arnaud

Left: Nothing but stills

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Year
1912
Director
Étienne Arnaud
Studio
Éclair
With
Dorothy Gibson
Lost
Éclair studio fire, 1914

Released a month after the sinking, starring a woman who had been on board.

Dorothy Gibson survived the Titanic in April 1912 and starred in this ten-minute film about it that May, wearing the clothes she had worn in the lifeboat.

It was lost when fire destroyed Éclair's studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1914.

If the reels were still in a can

The frame, stage by stage

  1. 0As shot

  2. 1Amber

  3. 3Bubbles

  4. 4Welded

  5. ·Today

What is leftNothing but stills.

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