Titanic / Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; a Tobis production ; Regie, Herbert Selpin ; Produktionsleitung, Willy Reiber ; [screenplay, Herbert Selpin and Walter Zerlett-Olfenius].
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
2004
Description:
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, E.F. Fürbringer, Karl Schönböck, Charlotte Thiele, Otto Wernicke, Franz Schafheitlin, Sepp Rist, Monika Burg. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1943. Credits from container. Full screen (1.33:1) presentation. Special features: original 1912 newsreel; White Star Line promotional film, offering a tour of the Olympic, Titanic's sister ship; theatrical trailer; photo gallery; excerpts from the pressbook.
Summary:
Building the Titanic has been a huge financial effort, and White Star Line president Bruce Ismay wants her maiden voyage to hit the headlines. It is at Ismay's urging that Capt. Edward J. Smith pushes for a record speed in their voyage to New York, and that eventually sows the seeds for later disaster. This Titanic features a number of rich, decadent British passengers and a handful of noble German peasants. Ends with the court tribunal acquitting Ismay of any wrong-doing for the sinking of the great ship.
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