This 50 minute video (nicely subtitled "The Beloved, the Damned and the Forgotten") was first released in 1985 but I have just had the opportunity to watch it for the first time.
Some excellent footage (both still and moving) make this a worthwhile addition to any Titanic video collection. Some examples are moving footage of Olympic's launch, her departure on her maiden voyage from Southampton, her final departure for the breakers, Titanic's departure from Southampton, and (this was a pleasant surprise) interviews with several survivors of the sunken Nantucket lightship.
The sizeable crowd which gathered to greet Olympic when she arrived for scrapping gives a good idea of how much it meant to workers hit hard by the Great Depression, and generally why there was absolutely no chance that she was going to be preserved forever. The very small crowd which saw Titanic off from Southampton also torpedoes the idea that her maiden voyage began in a blaze of fanfare. Olympic's did, yes, but not her middle sister's.
The narrative is a bit irritating at times, most notably the assertions that a) the "mystery ship" seen by Titanic was the Samson and (b that Britannic was loaded with munitions in direct contradiction with her role as hospital ship, but these are minor quibbles. Pictures speak louder than words, and some material which I have never seen before makes it all worthwhile.
Anybody else seen this video? Any opinions?
(Hope I posted this in the right thread. Nothing quite seems to fit but Movies is close enough I hope!)
Some excellent footage (both still and moving) make this a worthwhile addition to any Titanic video collection. Some examples are moving footage of Olympic's launch, her departure on her maiden voyage from Southampton, her final departure for the breakers, Titanic's departure from Southampton, and (this was a pleasant surprise) interviews with several survivors of the sunken Nantucket lightship.
The sizeable crowd which gathered to greet Olympic when she arrived for scrapping gives a good idea of how much it meant to workers hit hard by the Great Depression, and generally why there was absolutely no chance that she was going to be preserved forever. The very small crowd which saw Titanic off from Southampton also torpedoes the idea that her maiden voyage began in a blaze of fanfare. Olympic's did, yes, but not her middle sister's.
The narrative is a bit irritating at times, most notably the assertions that a) the "mystery ship" seen by Titanic was the Samson and (b that Britannic was loaded with munitions in direct contradiction with her role as hospital ship, but these are minor quibbles. Pictures speak louder than words, and some material which I have never seen before makes it all worthwhile.
Anybody else seen this video? Any opinions?
(Hope I posted this in the right thread. Nothing quite seems to fit but Movies is close enough I hope!)
