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Titanic History

Friday, May 2, 2025
1958 - 1st class survivor Mrs Alice Silvey died of septicaemia in Duluth, Minnesota, USA at the age of 85.

1867 - 1st class survivor Mrs Annie May Stengel was born to Charles Morris and Amanda Ripley Morris in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1918 - 1st class survivor Mrs Mary Aline Holverson died of kidney disease in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA at the age of 41.

1885 - 3rd class survivor Miss May Elizabeth Howard was born to William Howard (farm labourer) and Martha Whall Howard in North Walsham, Norfolk, England, UK.

1912 - After being detained for the American inquiry into the disaster, J. Bruce Ismay and Titanic crew members left the U.S. for England aboard the Adriatic.

1912 - Day 12 of the American inquiry into the Titanic disaster in Washington, D. C., USA. Witnesses called that day: First Class Passenger Mrs. J. Stuart White and Vice President of the Marconi Company of America John Bottomley.

1912 - The British inquiry into the Titanic disaster opened in the Wreck Commissioner's Court, Royal Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Script: Cut Scenes: Steerage Swine



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Cal breezes on, leaving the minions to scramble. He quickly checks his pocket watch.

CAL
We'd better hurry. This way, ladies.


He indicates the way toward the first class gangway. They move into the crowd. TRUDY BOLT, Rose's maid, hustles behind them, laden with bags of her mistress's most recent purchases... things too delicate for the baggage handlers.

Cal leads, weaving between vehicles and handcarts, hurrying passengers (mostly second class and steerage) and well-wishers. Most of the first class passengers are avoiding the smelly press of the dockside crowd by using an elevated boarding bridge, twenty feet above.

They pass a line of steerage passengers in their coarse wool and tweeds, queued up inside movable barriers like cattle in a chute. A HEALTH OFFICER examines their heads one by one, checking scalp and eyelashes for lice.

They pass a well-dressed young man cranking the handle of a wooden Biograph "cinematograph" camera mounted on a tripod. DANIEL MARVIN (whose father founded the Biograph Film Studio) is filming his young bride in front of the Titanic. MARY MARVIN stands stiffly and smiles, self conscious.

DANIEL
Look up at the ship, darling, that's it. You're amazed! You can't believe how big it is! Like a mountain. That's great.

Mary Marvin, without an acting fiber in her body, does a bad Clara Bow pantomime of awe, hands raised.

Cal is jostled by two yelling steerage boys who shove past him. And he is bumped again a second later by the boys' father.

CAL
Steady!!

MAN
Sorry squire!

The Cockney father pushes on, after his kids, shouting.

CAL
Steerage swine. Apparently missed his annual bath.

RUTH
Honestly, Cal, if you weren't forever booking everything at the last instant, we could have gone through the terminal instead of running along the dock like some squalid immigrant family.

CAL
All part of my charm, Ruth. At any rate, it was my darling fiancee's beauty rituals which made us late.

ROSE
You told me to change.

CAL
I couldn't let you wear black on sailing day, sweetpea. It's bad luck.

ROSE
I felt like black.

Cal guides them out of the path of a horse-drawn wagon loaded down with two tons of OXFORD MARMALADE, in wooden cases, for Titanic's Victualling Department.

CAL

Here I've pulled every string I could to book us on the grandest ship in history, in her most luxurious suites... and you act as if you're going to your execution.


Rose looks up as the hull of Titanic looms over them...a great iron wall, Bible black and sever. Cal motions her forward, and she enters the gangway to the D Deck doors with a sense of overwhelming dread.

OLD ROSE (V.O.)
It was the ship of dreams... to everyone else. To me it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains.






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