Saved from the Titanic
About Saved from the Titanic
A young woman tells her parents and her fiancé, in flashback, what she saw on the Titanic. They then fear the sea, because the man she is to marry is a sailor. Dorothy Gibson, who had been on the ship, plays a version of herself and co-wrote the short. She wore the clothes she had worn on the night of April 15.
Cast & crew
More about Saved from the Titanic
Étienne Arnaud directed. Gibson wrote with him and stars. Eclair released it on May 16, 1912, thirty-one days after the sinking. Shot in a Fort Lee studio and on a derelict ship in the harbor. Stock shots include icebergs, the Olympic, and Captain Edward Smith. Alec B. Francis, Julia Stuart, and John G. Adolfi are billed. It is Gibson's last film.
Themes
Preservation
Lost. The last known prints were destroyed in the Éclair studio fire in March 1914. A few stills survive.
Notes
- She left in the first lifeboat, one of twenty-eight people in it, and was picked up about five and a half hours later.
- The last known prints burned in the Éclair studio fire in March 1914.
- Stills and advertising photos remain.
- A copy is listed on the Internet Archive as silent-saved-from-the-titanic.
Scenes
- She tells the night of the sinking in the clothes she wore on board.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-saved-from-the-titanic)
