The first film to dramatize the story of the Titanic hit screens just 29 days after the ship went down — and starred an actor who survived the sinking.
After vacationing in Italy, 22-year-old movie star Dorothy Gibson boarded the Titanic on April 10, 1912 to head home to New York. She was playing bridge when the ship hit the iceberg and was lucky to escape on the first lifeboat.
Upon returning to New York, Dorothy’s employer, Éclair Film Company, immediately suggested making a movie. Dorothy co-wrote the script — which took the structure of her telling her parents and fiancé about what happened to her on the ship — and even wore the same clothes she’d worn on the ship while filming. The resulting film, Saved from the Titanic, ran only 10 minutes (this was typical at the time as theaters showed a lot of one-reel shorts) and mixed newsreel footage and stock images of icebergs with new footage filmed at a movie studio in New Jersey and on a docked ship in New York Harbor. The movie was a huge hit globally (although some criticized it as an exploitative cash grab).
In the end, the film, like the Titanic itself, was doomed. In 1914, the only known prints of the film were lost in a studio fire.

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