Saved from the Titanic

Saved from the Titanic
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	United States
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. In the movie, Gibson boards the ocean liner on the voyage to America. However the Titanic hits an 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.

The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where Éclair and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century. Saved From the Titanic is now considered a lost film with the only prints destroyed in a fire at Éclair Studios in 1914.

Colour

The movie was one of the first to use colour. 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.

Cast

• Dorothy Gibson as Miss Dorothy
• Alec B. Francis as Father
• Julia Stuart as Mother
• John G. Adolfi as Ensign Jack
• William R. Dunn as Jack's pal
• Guy Oliver as Jack's pal

See also

• In Nacht und Eis (1912)
• List of lost films

External links

• Saved from the Titanic at the Internet Movie Database
• Saved from the Titanic at AllRovi