A NIGHT TO REMEMBER was made using what were considered state-of-the-art special effects for its time. A scale model of the TITANIC almost 50 feet long was used for filming the scenes showing the collision with the iceberg and the sinking. Although technically dated when compared to the Cameron film’s computer-generated special effects, the scenes filmed with the model are still effective in depicting the giant ship going down. |
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Night To Remember #7
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Some of the special effects footage was also “lifted” from a well-made German film about the TITANIC that was produced during World War II as anti-British propaganda. The German film features a hero who is a German merchant marine officer, on board the TITANIC as a last-minute substitute for one of the regular British officers. (Since it is a propaganda film, the fictional German more or less takes charge of the rescue efforts after the British officers prove unequal to the task.) James Cameron obviously studied this film very carefully since some of the plot elements -- a stolen blue diamond, a man imprisoned inside a flooding cabin, a rich man trying to bribe his way into a lifeboat, etc. -- were later incorporated into his film.
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