In Nacht und Eis

In Nacht und Eis
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Directed by	Mime Misu
Starring	Waldemar Hecker Otto Rippert Ernst Ruckert (Anton Ernst Rickert)
Music by	Joel McNeely (2006 reissue)
Release date(s)	1912
Running time	35 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent film English and German intertitles

In Nacht und Eis (German: "In Night and Ice"), also called Der Untergang der Titanic ("The Sinking of the Titanic") is a 1912 German film about the sinking of Titanic. The filming began during the summer of 1912 and the film premiered that winter. The film's special effects are primitive by today's standards, but were impressive for that time. In the film, a small toy model ship hits an ice block in a small pond and sinks. The film contained plenty of fiction, such as fire shooting from the funnels, passengers singing hymns, and exploding overheated boiler furnaces. The film starts out by the passengers boarding at Southampton. The movie depicts the life of the passengers on board the ill-fated ocean liner. On April 14, during dinner in the Cafe Parisian, the Titanic strikes an iceberg, throwing the passengers in the cafe to the side. Panic strikes the passengers and the crew ready the lifeboats despite the fact that there aren't enough of them. Women and children are loaded while the men are held back. The radio operators,(who take up most of the sinking part of the film) sends out an urgent SOS. Fire blows out of the funnels during the sinking and then the boilers explode. The radio room floods and finally the operators and captain jump ship and the Titanic sinks.

The Titanic sinks

The film was produced by Continental Film Studios of Berlin, and while most of its footage was shot in studios and in a lot behind the studio building, some footage was shot in Hamburg and some was possibly done aboard the German ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, then docked at Hamburg. The Berlin Fire Department provided water to use for the sinking scenes. With a running time of 35 minutes, In Nacht und Eis was three times longer than the average film of 1912. Around 1914, the film was deemed lost forever, like many other silent films of that era. Then, in 1998, a German film collector realized he had it in his private collection. Various scenes can be seen in the documentary Beyond Titanic. The movie itself is available for watching on YouTube.

See also

• Saved From the Titanic (1912)

External links

• In Nacht und Eis at the Internet Movie Database

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