Saved from the Titanic is a 1912 American silent short film starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Premiering in the United St
1912 advertisement of film
In this promotional photograph for Saved from the Titanic, actress Dorothy Gibson wears the same cardigan in which she was rescued by the Carpathia.
Film still of Alec B. Francis (left) as "Father", Gibson as herself, and John G. Adolfi as "Ensign Jack"
In this publicity photograph, Gibson is attired in the actual clothes she was wearing during the disaster.
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. Of the 2,208 passengers
Saved from the Titanic
…days after the event, it was the earliest dramatization of the tragedy. Gibson had been one of 28 people aboard the first lifeboat to be launched from Titanic and was rescued about five and a half hours after leaving the ship. On returning to New York City, she co-wrote the script and played a fictionalized…
RMS Titanic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912
RMS Olympic's rudder with central and port wing propellers; the man at the bottom shows scale.
Marconi Company receiving equipment for a 5-kilowatt ocean liner station in the wireless radio room of Titanic's sister ship, Olympic
The only known picture of Titanic's wireless radio room, taken by the Catholic priest Francis Browne. Harold Bride is seated at the desk.