Yep, it does! The sinking of the Titanic has interested me since I was a kid and as such it would be nice to be able to watch Saved from the Titanic. A shame that the only known prints have been destroyed in a studio fire just 2 years later
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Yep, it does! The sinking of the Titanic has interested me since I was a kid and as such it would be nice to be able to watch Saved from the Titanic. A shame that the only known prints have been destroyed in a studio fire just 2 years later
That saddens me too. It would certainly have been better than those 2 Italian movies.
Yep, it does! The sinking of the Titanic has interested me since I was a kid and as such it would be nice to be able to watch Saved from the Titanic. A shame that the only known prints have been destroyed in a studio fire just 2 years later
That saddens me too. It would certainly have been better than those 2 Italian movies.
2 Italian Titanic movies? If you're referring to these The Legend of the Titanic and Titanic - The Legend Goes On then absolutely it would've been better. There was even a performance of an actress who was an actual Titanic Survivor (Dorothy Gibson) in Saved from the Titanic!
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That saddens me too. It would certainly have been better than those 2 Italian movies.
2 Italian Titanic movies? If you're referring to these The Legend of the Titanic and Titanic - The Legend Goes On then absolutely it would've been better. There was even a performance of an actress who was an actual Titanic Survivor (Dorothy Gibson) in Saved from the Titanic!
Oh wait, I forgot that The Legend of the Titanic was Italian. I was thinking that the other Italian movie was In Search of the Titanic. Still though, Saved From the Titanic would've been a far better, & FAR less offensive/racist movie than those 3 Italian movies.
That saddens me too. It would certainly have been better than those 2 Italian movies.
2 Italian Titanic movies? If you're referring to these The Legend of the Titanic and Titanic - The Legend Goes On then absolutely it would've been better. There was even a performance of an actress who was an actual Titanic Survivor (Dorothy Gibson) in Saved from the Titanic!
My God, I had forgotten those horrible animated movies. I don´t understand how they managed to make two, and both are equally horrendous.
2 Italian Titanic movies? If you're referring to these The Legend of the Titanic and Titanic - The Legend Goes On then absolutely it would've been better. There was even a performance of an actress who was an actual Titanic Survivor (Dorothy Gibson) in Saved from the Titanic!
Oh wait, I forgot that The Legend of the Titanic was Italian. I was thinking that the other Italian movie was In Search of the Titanic. Still though, Saved From the Titanic would've been a far better, & FAR less offensive/racist movie than those 3 Italian movies.
Ahh... I see. The very late 90s to mid 2000s was not too great of a time for Titanic movies at all (yes, largely due to these 3 Italian films). I was a kid (and in mid 2000s a tween) and was interested in the ship's sinking back then but fortunately did not watch any of those 3 Italian films (though the animation style definitely looks familiar so I might have seen them in some video stores back in the early-mid 2000s). I did watch James Cameron's one in that period though and it was not bad. Not a huge fan of offensive or racist movies so I'm highly unlikely to ever watch those 3 Italian Titanic movies.
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2 Italian Titanic movies? If you're referring to these The Legend of the Titanic and Titanic - The Legend Goes On then absolutely it would've been better. There was even a performance of an actress who was an actual Titanic Survivor (Dorothy Gibson) in Saved from the Titanic!
My God, I had forgotten those horrible animated movies. I don´t understand how they managed to make two, and both are equally horrendous.
It turns out they made a third one as well In Search of the Titanic. I too don't understand how the creators managed to make them all. I've never actually watched them, but heard only negative things about them in the early 2000s onwards.
It honestly makes me feel a little better about online videos, since whatever the state of online video archiving will be in the future, I can't imagine most popular online videos will be lost the way silent films were. And since the world (and even the field of film studies) pretty much goes on as-is even with early film history being lost, a few YouTube videos being lost won't make that big of an impact. And YouTube videos are easier to copy and preserve too, and I imagine even the preservation of 1% of all YouTube videos with more than a million views would give future scholars more knowledge about today than they could've gotten from most silent films being preserved.
I have lots of trouble with existential thoughts, so the idea that such a huge piece of history is gone and will never be experienced in any ways again is saddening and somewhat unsettling. All that remains of the full films are memories from people who will take it to their grave, unable for others to see what it was they saw, aside from memory-faded recounts at best, and literally nothing but a name at worst.
I have lots of trouble with existential thoughts, so the idea that such a huge piece of history is gone and will never be experienced in any ways again is saddening and somewhat unsettling. All that remains of the full films are memories from people who will take it to their grave, unable for others to see what it was they saw, aside from memory-faded recounts at best, and literally nothing but a name at worst.
Dang, that really reminds me of something that I might only know by name alone. I remember that there was this... thing called something along the lines of Two Can Play That Game. I'm not even sure if the DVD featured the same movie as the one people know about honestly. It might just contain some entirely different movie that nobody remembers at all.
I always keep hoping that new samples of failed early attempts of technology used to record audio video, & photography will pop up; The Format Wars go back to at least the 1800s & I want to see all the technology that failed to catch on. & the best way to experience that technology is to see & hear how they worked & sounded. I also just really hate the idea of someone losing a labor they poured their heart & souls, sweat & tears into, never seeing the light of day, like a woman expecting a baby, only to lose it.