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Titanic. Did you watch any of the programmes?
Did anyone watch any of the programmes on TV yesterday on the Titanic? I watched the film with Kenneth More, 'A Night to Remember' I prefer it to the one with Kate Winslet! Then I watched one of the documentaries, the one mainly about Southampton and how the tragedy effected the town. It showed a map of the area and how many families suffered a loss, marked with a black dot, there were a lot. Many families lost their breadwinners and had trouble managing afterwards, although there was a charity set up to help. White Star didn't pay wages to those who survived either.
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I want to watch the film because I have not seen it all the way through so I might wait till it comes out on TV.
Shoes and clothes lying in such away that it had obviously once had a body within it... :(
I agree - worst in the sense that it did not convey much reality of the event, it got many facts very wrong and any Titanorak will know exactly what I mean. The only thing good about the film was that it was entertaining. It's just a shame that it got most of its facts wrong.
The TV drama that concluded last night was a contrived pile of horse dung, again missing out key facts and making up some complete codswallop in the process. It was badly acted and badly written. Most of the poor souls who perished must be turning in their graves at such crap.
On iPlayer last night I played the BBC's Titanic: A Commemoration in Music and Film. Had it on in the background while I worked.
That's because people are daft enough to go see the movie again. And that's the thing about disasters - they're good moneyspinners. Of course, I wonder if the interest will fade when the old lady finally disintigrates within the next 20 years?
Call me boring if you must, but the whole story's been over-promoted & re-written so often, it's tedious - and as for the news programs showing pictures of weeping great-great-grand-nephews/nieces & the like...total drivel, considering there was never ever any chance of them meeting their ancestors had those ancestors even survived the sinking... Well, sorry, but it was just totally OTT, for me
All those involved in the film will be laughing at how easily-led and ignorant people can be.
[quote=B L Zebub]the whole story's been over-promoted & re-written so often, it's tedious[/quote]
Yep, totally agree. I've got no interest in it whatsoever. Titanic the film spoiled any interest I might've had in the event. And really, what am I going to learn from all these programmes? A ship hit an iceberg. I can imagine it just being the narrator saying 'It was the biggest maritime disaster of all time' over and over in lots of different ways, and that's the whole programme.
Learn summat new every day don't 'ees.
That's another one I caught on the iPlayer.
With the prices being fetched by the sale of a simple photo of one of the men who died, of course the wreck will be plundered.
That shoe Carol saw on Mail Online is probably for sale as we speak.