TITANIC FILMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3604, 17 August 1912, Page 10

TITANIC FILMS.

An American firm-of "topical” film producers have certainly obtained a remarkable "scoop” with the pictures of the Titanic disaster. A press correspondent in New York states that a moving picture operator was dispatched immediately the news of the calamity reached New York to the scene where the great vessel foundered. The camera man was sent to Sydney (Capo Breton), there to*await a steamer that would convey him to St. John’s, Newfoundland, where certain inaugural ceremonies were to be cincmatographed. Here, however, there was a delay, and in order to reach St. John’s in time the operator had to charter a large sea-going tug. He was about to start for St. John's when news of the Titanic wreck readied Sydney. The photographer heard of it, and within 20 minutes his tug was on its way to the disabled vessel. From later information it now appears that the operator started within a few minutes of the time that Now York heard the news. As it took 30 hours to reach Halifax from New York, the films arrived in New York at the time the press photographers had readied the scene of the disaster. AAliat is probably tho best photograph ever taken of Captain Smith was one he posed for the Kinemacolor films, just before his last voyage from America. This life-like portrait in color shows him surrounded bv his chief officers.