The famous British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke mentions this film in two novels of his which feature a raised Titanic; "Imperial Earth" (1976) and "The Ghost from the Grand Banks" (1990). In the former, the film is screened during a tour on board the raised Titanic which is docked in...
I received the new Criterion Blu-Ray version of ANTR, and the result is an impressive upgrade over the previous release. The transfer is outstanding and this time the sequence snipped in the previous release of the "British" version (but which was included in the American version released on...
I visited the NMM in Greenwich yesterday to view the collection of Lord-Macquitty, bequathed to the museum. I was first alerted by Sam Halpern that the collection may contain first-hand material that may help in sinkig forensics, but I also wanted to see the Californian related material.
The...
I have heard from Kate Jarvis at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, http://www.nmm.ac.uk. that they have now catalogued Walter Lord's papers. They are in a collection with William MacQuitty's papers titled the Lord-MacQuitty Papers. The call number is LMQ. At present they have catalogued...
A source has just told me that items from the Walter Lord collection are now on display at the NMM, including the pig-of-great-fame. This seems have been done with remarkably little fanfare, although there was some media from Greenwich...
Besides being the producer for the movie "A Night To Remember", what other works did William MaQuitty produce? Also, does he attend any of the Titanic Historical Societies conventions?