Saved from the Titanic

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Saved from the Titanic
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Directed by Étienne Arnaud
Starring Dorothy Gibson
Distributed by Éclair Film Company
Release date(s) May 14, 1912
Running time 10 min. (300 m)
Country Template:FilmUS
Language Silent with English Intertitles

Saved From the Titanic is a 1912 silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an actual survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

The movie was shot in less than two weeks and in black and white, with color scenes. Reportedly the dress Gibson wore in the movie is the actual dress she was wearing when rescued from the Titanic. [citation needed] In the movie, Gibson boards the ocean liner on the voyage to America. However the Titanic hits and iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic and Gibson boards a lifeboat. The Titanic sinks and Gibson and over 700 people are rescued and sent back to New York. The movie is told in flashbacks and Gibson's movie parents refuse to let her get married to a sailor, but finally agree and give their daughter to the sailor.

Saved From the Titanic is now considered a lost film with the only prints destroyed in a fire at Éclair Studios in 1914.

Color

The movie was one of the first to use color. Although it was filmed in black and white for the most part, two scenes were shot in Kinemacolor—the scene that depicts Dorothy returning to her parents after she was presumed dead, and the final scene in which her father gives her away in marriage.

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