10) In the scene where Jack is teaching Rose to spit, there is no spit on his chin as he starts to turn around
to face the ladies, but by the time he has completed his turn he has some on his chin.
11) The painting over the fireplace in the Titanic's first class smoking lounge in the film depicts New York
Harbor, which was actually the painting on the Titanic's sister ship, "Olympic". The painter, Norman
Wilkinson, had provided a scene of Plymouth Harbor for Titanic, but no pictures of this work survived.
12) A closeup of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing contact lenses.
13) The main characters have lunch in the Palm Court/Verandah on A Deck. These were not used for
dining, although passengers could order tea or a small snack.
14) Cal orders lamb with mint sauce for himself and Rose. Lamb was only available for dinner on the
ship, while mutton was reserved for lunch. The lamb was prepared in the D-Deck galley and would not
have been served in the Palm Court.
15) While Jack and Rose are walking on the promenade the day after he rescues her, a small hill with a
building on it is visible over Jack's shoulder and above the ship.
16) The button on the left side of Jack's borrowed jacket is a "Kingsdrew" button, first made in 1922.
17) Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are
still standing apart.
18) There is crew or equipment reflected in the glass door opened for Jack as he enters the dining room.
19) The worship services held at 10:30 on Sunday April 14th, 1912, in the First Class Dining Room were
open to all passengers of the ship.
20) "Almighty Father Strong To Save" is sung during the worship service; the two verses used in the film
were written by Robert Nelson Spencer in 1937.
21) During the scene when Rose "flies" from the ship's bow, the sunlight is clearly falling almost exactly
straight across the ship from left to right. On the evening of the 14th, the ship would be steaming
somewhere between WSW and SW; the lighting in the movie would indicate that the sun is between SSE
and SE, when it actually would have been between W and WNW.
22) In the same shot, the faces of Jack and Rose are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.
23) The length of Rose's fingernails throughout the movie.
24) The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director
James Cameron.)
25) Workers in the Titanic's engine room had to wear thick protective clothing to shield them from the
heat generated by the engines.
26) The gauges in the engine room are fitted with sweated tubing fittings, a plumbing technique not
available when the ship was constructed. The fittings should have been threaded brass.
27) There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area (and no access to any but authorized
crew). If there had been a door, it would have entered the third cargo area aft, not the one where the
Renault was stored.
28) There is crew or equipment reflected in a brass panel on the front of the Renault that Jack and Rose
find in the cargo hold.
29) The disaster message that the radio operator starts clicking out on the telegraph key is not intelligible
Morse code.
30) When Captain Smith enters the wheelhouse, the ship's telegraph is set to "Full Reverse" instead of
"All Stop".
31) The sea water would be at or below freezing point, yet characters rarely display discomfort or
disablement from being immersed.
32) Jack is supposedly held prisoner in the Master-at-Arms' office, which is depicted as having a porthole.
On the Titanic, this room was an interior room and hence would have no portholes.
33) That porthole is shown to be several feet below water, yet in a shot from inside the room, the surface
of the water is visible inches above the porthole.
34) The broken glass that the axe sits behind.
35) It is impossible for voices to echo in the middle of the North Atlantic unless there is a large, flat object
like a ship nearby.
36) We are shown a shot of Rose's view of the Statue of Liberty from a ship, yet to obtain a view as
indicated she would have to be on land.
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