S.O.S. TITANIC

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Premiering tonight on ABC is the Titanic miniseries.  I remember another ABC special from 1979, the made for TV movie S.O.S. Titanic.

On September 23, 1979 on ABC, the TV movie S.O.S. Titanic first aired. I've scanned the original two-page ad from TV Guide and I'm sure many will remember this TV movie. It's interesting to note that David Warner sailed the Titanic twice. Eighteen years after S.O.S. he booked passage on James Cameron's Titanic in 1997. (He was also in Time Bandits that had a scene on the Titanic but his character was absent from the ship.)

Here's a TV promo for a later showing in 1981. It aired after Those Amazing Animals. (Uploaded to YouTube by Robatsea.)

  

Watch the video below for some behind the scenes of S.O.S. Titanic.  This silent 8mm footage was uploaded by rhardyg. For some reason the S.O.S. footage starts at 1:08 after a random clip of Raise the Titanic.

Apparently the movie was released theatrically for the foreign market.  Here's a Turkish poster that was sold in 2010 by Heritage Auctions. 

THINKING OF THE TITANIC

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Today we acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. A tragedy that claimed the lives of an estimated 1500 people. Sadly, so many people could have been saved, but mans arrogance overshadowed caution and safety. It was a harsh lesson that man can never conquer or control nature and it will always remain a good reminder for the future.

Click on the photo below to see original footage of the Titanic from British Pathe.  

The Titanic has thousands of individual stories. Click here and here to hear some memories from a few of the survivors. 

Here's a 1912 newspaper clipping that I found inside of the Sinking of the Titanic book. (I'm not sure what newspaper it was from.)