A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

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a b Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (10 July 2018). British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198159346– via Google Books.

It was calm, clear and bitterly cold. There was no moon, but the cloudless sky blazed with stars. The Atlantic was like polished plate glass; people later said they had never seen it so smooth. Ward, Greg (2012). The Rough Guide to the Titanic. London: Rough Guides Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4053-8699-9.

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I heard a graphic account of how the Titanic up-ended herself and remained poised like some colossal nightmare of a fish, her tail high in the air, her nose deep in the water, until she dived finally from human sight.” Over 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic. The 'unsinkable' ship lies 3,800 meters under the North Atlantic Ocean. A scientist from James Cameron's documentary Ghosts of the Abyss referred to the sinking as a Greek tragedy. I couldn't agree more. It is a tragedy that should never have happened. The film was also a masterpiece in that it did not use a fictional plot and primary characters to draw audiences in; instead, it primarily relied upon historical figures and showed them in such a way that audiences cared about what happened to them.' [55] Home video [ edit ] Written in 1955, it reads with a surprisingly modern and appealing voice - it's not stuffy or wordy in it's explanations of what happened that fateful night, and although the 'cast of characters' is long, it's an extremely riveting read.

Se aprende muchísimo con este libro, no solo de la tragedia en sí, sino del impacto que tuvo para la sociedad del momento y cómo sirvió de preludio para hechos que vinieron a continuación, como la caída del Imperio Británico, la desaparición de las clases sociales o el estallido de la IGM. Well, Heaven knows how many bold ‘n brave corrections to Lord’s summary our recent history has now washed up on the Beach of Historicism! De todas formas, hay dos cosas que me han gustado mucho del libro de Lord: en primer lugar, la forma en que mantiene el enfoque en los supervivientes, y como pone en relieve lo que os he dicho antes: que hubo muchas personas, tanto pasajeros como trabajadores del barco, que se esforzaron por salvar el mayor número de vidas posibles. Y en segundo lugar, la manera en que su autor expone como era la ideología y la sociedad de la época. Si hubo algo que me impactó mucho de esta lectura fue como simple y llanamente se ignoró a la tercera clase, como todos los esfuerzos se enfocaron en salvar en primer lugar a las mujeres y los niños, sí, pero también a los pasajeros varones de la primera, e incluso, de la segunda clase. Y como esta idea era algo fuertemente incrustado incluso en las mentalidades de los pasajeros de la clase más humilde del buque, para los cuales era un privilegio inesperado que les permitían acceder a la zona destinada a las clases más ricas para poder subir a un bote. Y también son dignas de mucha atención las relaciones que se establecían entre los ricos y los trabajadores del barco, la forma en que los segundos se preocupaban de forma muy amistosa por sus señores, y estos les correspondían con familiaridad y hasta cierta camareria (pero sin perder de vista nunca la diferencia de clases, obviamente). This is a re-read. I first read it before I joined either Shelfari or Goodreads, so I have no record of when I read it. I believe it was in the 1980s; I know it was long before the hugely successful movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. If memory serves, I re-read it at about the time the movie was released. So this is my third reading. This was the fifth night of the Titanic's maiden voyage to New York, and it was already clear that she was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world. Even the passengers' dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Astor had along his Airedale Kitty. Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, had his prize Pekingese Sun Yat-sen...

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I have read a number of books about Titanic but, for some reason, have never read this classic volume, which was a huge success when published in 1955. The film, of the same name, was released in 1958, featuring Kenneth Moore and adapted by the author of spy novels, Eric Ambler. Moore played Charles Lightoller, second officer, who survived despite his insistence that the lifeboats were for women and young children only and later took part in Dunkirk, so was technically a hero twice in one lifetime. The gradual nature of the disaster was also more comforting, in some respects, compared with the nature of modern technological failures such as air crashes. Time 's reviewer made this point explicitly: "This air age, when death comes too swiftly for heroism or with no survivors to record it, can still turn with wonder to an age before yesterday when a thousand deaths at sea seemed the very worst the world must suffer." [15] It was, as Steven Biel comments, "a quainter kind of disaster" in which the victims had time to prepare and chose how to die. [14] Screen adaptations [ edit ] Two men dropped in. Purser Herbert McElroy fired twice into the air. Murdoch shouted, “Get out of this! Clear out of this!” Hugh Woolner and Bjornstrom Steffanson—attracted by the pistol flashes—rushed over to help. Yanking the culprits by arms, legs, anything, they cleared the boat. The loading continued. Me satisface mucho que esta lectura haya sido la que ponga punto y final al reto eduardiano. Porque creo que lo que paso con el Titanic es muy ilustrativo sobre la gran tragedia que supuso, en el fondo, el mundo eduardiano (que es uno de los focos de “Downton Abbey”, todo sea dicho). La gente que vivió en este contexto histórico fue heredera directa del periodo victoriano, hijos de una sociedad estable, social y económicamente, con unos criterios y pautas sociales muy bien marcados. Sus padres les legaron un mundo estable y que prometía ser permanente, y ellos se consideran con todo el derecho del mundo a llevar vidas felices y tranquilas. Para muestra un botón: como es bien sabido no había suficientes botes en el Titanic para salvar a todos los que estaban ahí, pero eso era algo que a nadie le preocupo a la hora de echarlo a la mar. Ni siquiera desde otras compañías marítimas. De hecho, que la naviera White Start (ls del Titanic) hubiera puesto más botes de lo que era habitual en la época se consideraba más que suficiente. El mundo eduardiano no era justo para nada, había muchos problemas en su seno. Pero estos tardarían en desencadenarse, y cuando lo harían sería de una forma catastrófica y estrepitosa. Y da la impresión de que esa bomba empezó a estallar justo cuando el Titanic se hundió para siempre en las aguas del Atlantico Norte. Como si el final del barco insumergible fuera el pistoletazo de salida que marcase un tsunami que cambiaría el mundo para siempre en forma de movimientos políticos y sociales, debacles económicas, caídas de imperios y guerras mundiales. El hundimiento del Titanic fue el despertar de un sueño que dió paso a que se impusiera la dura realidad, porque si un barco que se consideraba insumergible y que era el culmen del lujo de la época se hundía en su viaje inaugural, si la muerte se cebada en una travesía que debía de haber sido agradable y fácil, y el agua gélida no distinguía entre ricos y pobres ¿quien podría estar seguro? Some historical figures have the 'wrong' accent: The portrayal of Thomas Andrews by British actor Michael Goodlife was believable, but the accent should have been not British but Irish. Murdoch's accent should have been Scottish, and so on. [42]

Three years ago I wrote comments on the 1997 James Cameron film "Titanic" for this database. Either because of the number of Oscars collected by this film, or its fantastic production cost of some two hundred million dollars, I felt ashamed when reporting that I found it to be a most uncomfortable combination of a historical documentary and an entirely fictional romance. I found it hard to understand why such a major film should have been split between two such disparate styles of presentation. Although I had recognised that several scenes in Cameron's "Titanic" appeared to have been directly copied from the excellent 1979 TV film "S.O.S. Titanic", I did not feel this was adequate to explain the strongly documentary flavour of so many other sequences. All was explained very recently when, thanks to TCM, I had an opportunity to see "A Night to Remember" for the first time. This is an almost completely documentary 1958 film based on a very thoroughly researched and near definitive book of the same name that was prepared from the testimony given at the official enquiries in the U.K. and the U.S.A., and written by Dr. Walter Lord.. Much of Cameron's film was also documentary and appears to have been directly based on this much earlier film, the remainder was a romantic drama that was essentially incompatible. Cameron probably decided on this approach because ANTR, with no well known stars in the cast, failed to achieve the same success in the U.S.A. as in the U.K. I can now understand that featuring the romance in the way which Cameron did was probably intended to enable his film to create a greater degree of viewer involvement with the unfortunate passengers on the liner and so help to avoid this problem. Unfortunately in my view the documentary and the fictional parts of his film never melded. Sure, it was nice having the beautiful liner, with her sleek lines and awesome symmetry, once again dominating the world. The downside, though, was steep. Now, anyone who's ever been interested in the subject must contend with sideways glances from people who assume your curiosity was piqued by the teenage-catnip pairing of a young Kate Winslet and a young Leonardo DiCaprio “flying” on Titanic’s prow. Alongside this, the sheer hubris surrounding the Titanic is extraordinary - not just the asking-for-trouble 'unsinkable' label but the way in which it was blithely accepted that crossing the Atlantic without adequate life-belts and life rafts was totally fine - we might all joke about the burdens of Health & Safety in the workplace but there's clearly a reason for it! There are probably other books that go into greater detail on certain aspects of this story, but I can't imagine there being a better entire book on the Titanic than this. Walter Lord had been very interested in the sinking of the RMS Titanic since he was child and wrote A Night to Remember while working as a copy editor at a New York ad agency. Lord interviewed over sixty survivors of the sinking and described in detail the events leading up to the Titanic striking the iceberg, the sinking and the rescue by the RMS Carpathia. The book also includes facts about the Titanic, a list of passengers with those that survived in italics and other information.Celeste Cumming Mt. Lebanon, "Early Titanic Film A Movie to Remember", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11 September 1998), p. 39. By 2001, it had still not made a profit, in part because it was issued as part of a slate of ten films and all of its profits were cross-collateralised. [47] Reputation today [ edit ] Titanic continues to fascinate us 110 years later. Bill Paxton was right when he said, "I think you leave Titanic, but it never leaves you."