Titanic VHS Movie Tape Set. Leonardo DiCaprio + Titanica DVD Documentary IMAX

Description: VHS tape At your request I will include Bonus DVD digitally transferred from original laserdisc. Titanica is a 1992 IMAX documentary film about the RMS Titanic. The film was directed by Stephen Low and narrated by Cedric Smith, Anatoly Sagalevich and Ralph White. The film mostly focuses on footage taken at the wreck of the RMS Titanic, also featuring footage of the expedition crew searching the wreck as well as interviews with Titanic survivors Frank John William Goldsmith and Eva Hart. Using Eva and the crew members, Low conveys the voice of the documentary by showing the Titanic's wreckage as a graveyard which is to be respected and treated with caution and care. It was the second feature-length IMAX film released, following Stones at the Max in 1991. This version features 27 more minutes of interviews with Ralph White, Emory Kristof, and other experts. The expedition crew was composed of a Russian, American and Canadian[1] who were operating off the Russian research ship Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. Footage of the wreck was obtained by two Mir submersibles, sometimes working together, that had been equipped with IMAX cameras and lights that consumed 150,000 watts, capable of clearly lighting up the ocean floor. Footage of the wreckage is often compared with historical photos, showing the full impact of the tragedy. In the film, Eva Hart comments that prior to the Titanic striking the iceberg, her mother had commented that calling the ship 'unsinkable' was "flying in the face of the Almighty." Early scenes in the film show one of the subs slowly descending, a speck of light in the darkness. The three-member crews must spend 18 to 25 hours squeezed into tiny quarters on each of their visits, and we see them playing poker and chess, and consuming giant sandwiches. At last, the ocean floor is reached, and a debate breaks out: Are those lumps of coal from the Titanic, or whale droppings? (Almost all IMAX documentaries have a regrettable tendency to alternate the sublime with the corny.) When the Titanic is finally reached, the effect is grand, sad and creepy. The documentary footage alternates with photographs taken before the ship’s launching. In one extraordinary scene, the crew members use remote-controlled pincers to pick up a suitcase from the ocean floor. After some argument (“It might contain the log book!”), they replace it. Then we see a photograph of passengers standing on deck on the day of sailing. Next to one of them, on the deck, is what looks like the same suitcase. The cameras achieve a remarkable intimacy with the vast wreck. We look out through the windows of the captain’s reception room and float past the private promenade of J.P. Morgan’s suite. We can see the brass fittings of the wheel, still shiny, although the wooden elements have long since disappeared. “When the ship reached bottom,” a narrator tells us, “there would have been corpses littered everywhere. But even the skeletons quickly disappeared in the calcium-depleted water.” The debris all tells a story. There are the giant engines, now covered in ropes of sediment. There is a toilet bowl: “Iron,” a narrator says. “That would have been for third class. Second class had porcelain, and first class, of course, marble.” And we see a single woman’s shoe, resting forever now on the bottom.

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