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lisburntoday.co.uk	STRICTLY MORSE CODE FOR DANCING JUDGE LEN STRICTLY Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has paid a visit to Lisburn to learn all about Morse Code for a new documentary. Len, who is well known for his appearances on the hit BBC1 series, is currently filming a three part documentary to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. As part of the documentary, entitled ‘Titanic and Me’, Len wanted to learn all he could about Morse Code and how the radio operators on the Titanic made use of it....	28th August 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	STRICTLY JUDGE SWAPS SEQUINS FOR TITANIC DOCUMENTARY Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman has been on a visit to Belfast to celebrate a very personal interest in the Titanic ahead of the 100th anniversary of its sinking. Next spring the BBC will be airing a new three-part documentary about the Belfast-made ship, called The Titanic And Me, which looks at the human legacy of the disaster via the descendants of those who lost their lives, and the presenter is Len Goodman, Strictly’s popular voice of reason....	15th August 2011
Realscreen	ZDF ENTERPRISES TAKES ON TITANIC DOCUMENTARY International distributor ZDF Enterprises is coproducing a €1.6 million doc on the men below the Titanic’s deck with Irish prodco Tile Films and Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion....	17th May 2011
Gare Maritime	SKY CRUISE : A FLIGHT ON THE HINDENBURG Jim Kalafus A unique photographic and documentary record of the tragic airship....	1st March 2008
	GUS COHEN, 1975 From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]...	1975
	EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL, 1975 Pictured at a TV studio...
	EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL'S PIG The Musical Toy That Played 'The Maxixe'...	1975
DNAinfo	TITANIC DOCUMENTARY AND NEW THEATER PROPOSED FOR PIER 54 Pier 54 where survivors of the Titanic came ashore nearly a century ago may honor that history next year....	30th October 2010
Press TV	KHAYYAM PASSENGER OF TITANIC An Iranian director will make a documentary on the real story of a volume of the English translation of Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam which sank in the Titanic accident. ...	25th July 2007
Sydney Morning Herald	TITANIC BIRTH DRAMA IS PROTRACTED LABOUR Despite some flaws, this serves as a companion piece to James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, which follows at 8.40pm and dramatises the final hours of the most famous cruise liner in history (excluding, of course, our own beloved Fairstar).Birth of a Legend promises a wealth of archival material, but the problem with documentaries about the Titanic is that no matter how new they look, you get the feeling you've seen it all before (and if you've been near a TV set in the past decade, you probably have). Every new documentary becomes an increasingly anemic duplicate of the one before, like a brass rubbing that has been worn down until there is nothing left....	12th June 2006
	TITANIC WRECK FOOTAGE This footage was shot in 2005 by myself, Rob Goldsmith, for the UK History Channel's documentary "Titanic - A Tale of Two Journeys". I was lucky enough to win this trip through a competition. ...
Yorkshire Post	TITANIC THEORY IS TESTED WITH YORKSHIRE HELP Wrought iron specialist makes duplicates of suspect rivets used in doomed ship's construction for TV programme Chris Benfield FOR nearly 100 years, the blame for the sinking of the Titanic has been split between the iceberg and the man who sailed into it. But tomorrow night, a television documentary made with the help of a Yorkshire blacksmith will argue that faulty workmanship was another factor....	18th September 2006
4RFV	PIONEER PRODUCTIONS BRINGS SCIENCE TO STORY OF TITANIC Independent producer Pioneer Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4, National Geographic Channel US and Discovery Canada to present the story of 'Titanic' from a new analytical perspective in a drama documentary....	21st August 2008
BBC News	POIGNANT JOURNEY TO TITANIC GRAVE His family always thought their grandfather had been lost at sea when Titanic sank. William McQuillan was a stoker on the Titanic But more than 90 years later, his granddaughter was astonished to see William McQuillan's grave pictured in a television documentary. Following up the information from the programme, Marjorie Wilson became the first member of her family to pay their respects at the graveside in Nova Scotia, almost a century later. ...	30th October 2006
dudleynews.co.uk	RETURN FOR NETHERTON TITANIC ANCHOR DUDLEY councillors have given the thumbs up to the return of a piece of Netherton’s history. The replica lifesize Titanic anchor, which was made as part of last year’s Channel 4 documentary about the world’s most famous ship, will be heading back to Netherton for good, after members of the Development Control Committee agreed for a permanent plinth to be installed in the town’s centre at the meeting on August 30. ...	6th September 2011
Liverpool Echo	SECRETS OF THE TITANIC... ONLINE THE Titanic disaster is THE major shipping disaster of all time. More lives have been lost in other ship-wrecks/sinkings but the Titanic remains the iconic disaster.There were of course plenty of links to Liverpool at the time of Titanic's fateful maiden voyage in April 1912 and the documentary evidence that can be accessed relating to her crew and families is a huge bonus for genealogists interested in Titanic links....	6th January 2009
thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	TITANIC STORY OFFERS MORE THAN JUST A DISASTER FILM HE story of the Titanic, which sunk almost 100 years ago, has been revisited in a new documentary. The one-hour film, Prepare To Launch, looks at the planning and preparation that went into the ill-fated liner, leading up to its launch in Belfast on May 31, 1911. Featuring words from shipbuilders, crew members and even survivors, the film also looks at the ship's links with Staffordshire, the most well-known being the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, below, who was born in Well Street, Hanley in 1850....	26th May 2011
eventmagazine.co.uk	TITANIC STORY TO BE BROADCAST LIVE FROM BELFAST - EVENT MAGAZINE The tale of the Titanic will be recreated through a documentary and music event at Belfast's Waterfront Hall to commemorate the centenary of the boat's sinking. The event on 14 April will be broadcast live on BBC Two from Belfast’s waterside venue, near the site where the ship was launched in 1911. Organisers say they are in talks with "all the major international broadcasters" to show the event globally....	3rd January 2012
Belfast Telegraph	DIVERS PROBE SECRETS OF TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.Divers and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) have penetrated the wreck of the former hospital ship, which has lain close to the Greek port of Kea in the Aegean Sea since her sinking in November 1916 as she passed through a minefield. The resulting footage will be screened in a History Channel documentary....	27th September 2006
4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
NewDesignWorld	DAVID G. BROWN AUTHOR AND TV DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER TO JOIN HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It's 'full steam ahead' as local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast continue making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise to be held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit April 25th, 2009....	2nd February 2009
televisual.com	WHIZZ KID MAKES TITANIC CENTENARY SPECIAL FOR BBC The Titanic Centenary Commemoration - a live televised event - will be held in Belfast next April, 100 years after the tragic sinking of the legendary liner. It will be produced for BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland by Whizz Kid Entertainment and Belfast-based integrated communications agency ASG. The 90-minute event will air in prime time across the UK from Belfast's Waterfront Hall on the night of April 14. The story of the legendary liner, built and launched in Belfast, will be retold through orchestral performances, a massed choir and documentary and archive material....	7th December 2011
televisual.com	KING'S SPEECH INDIE BEDLAM TO MAKE TITANIC FEATURE Bedlam Productions, creator of the The King's Speech, has produced a new feature length drama documentary Titanic: Case Closed, which has been commissioned by Nat Geo International Channels and the Smithsonian Channel.   The 90-minute film is due for broadcast in April 2012 to mark the centenary of the ship's sinking. Titanic: Case Closed will explore the real reasons behind the sinking and lack of rescue of the RMS Titanic by closing the case on the events of that night which saw over 1,500 lives lost in the North Atlantic Ocean.  ...	8th December 2011
PR News	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC MUSEUM OPENS The Titanic attraction, officially named "The World's Largest Titanic Museum Attraction," opened in March.Museum owner John Joslyn is a former television producer who dove to the wreck in a submersible in 1987 and produced the documentary "Return to the Titanic ... Live."Joslyn has been a collector of Titanic artifacts and opened a smaller, similar attraction in Orlando, Fla., that he sold to build the Branson museum.The Titanic building looms above Missouri 76, Branson's Strip. The 100-foot-tall building recreates the bow of the ship, complete with a pool at its base that sprays water as though it were cutting through the ocean....	30th March 2006
	ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
www.physorg.com	TITANIC: SANK MORE QUICKLY THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT After visiting the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in August 2005, scientists have discovered that Titanic took just five minutes to sink ? much faster than previously thought....	31st December 2005
BBC News	DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck....	21st November 2008
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER" Edward C. Burks GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo...	9th October 1973
Shoreham Herald	SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Maynard, he was an entrÃ©e cook on the ill-fated voyage, which ended with the liner sinking on April 15, 1912....	15th July 2009
New York Times	TV: LAST HOURS OF TITANIC Review...	29th March 1956