{"id":6420,"date":"2015-07-29T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2015-07-28T23:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T04:30:51","slug":"titanic-newsreel-among-historic-footage-in-ap-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/titanic-newsreel-among-historic-footage-in-ap-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic newsreel among historic footage in AP archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9Q0FV8b2R8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press announced July 23 that it and British Movietone have recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/content\/press-release\/2015\/ap-makes-one-million-minutes-of-history-available-on-youtube\">posted over a million minutes of historic film and video news footage<\/a> to YouTube. All have an AP watermark, but the bulk of the clips are newsreels.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2015\/07\/23\/an-experts-must-see-guide-to-the-half-a-million-amazing-historical-videos-ap-just-put-online\/?tid=sm_tw\">Washington Post asked an AP archivist<\/a> to pick out some of the most memorable films. The #1 selection was about the sinking of the <em>Titanic<\/em> \u2014 <em>but the ship in the newsreel footage is not the <\/em>Titanic<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because the\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em> sank on its maiden voyage, there is very little photographic record, save for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanicuniverse.com\/titanic-images-unforgettable-photos-of-the-most-luxurious-ship-in-the-world\/3298\">invaluable amateur photographs<\/a> taken before final departure from the British Isles. However, there was footage of the <em>Olympic<\/em>, its sister ship.\u00a0On the <em>Titanic<\/em>, the forward section of the A deck promenade (below the Boat Deck) is enclosed. It was not so on the <em>Olympic<\/em>. Since this is the only immediately identifiable difference save for the printed names themselves, footage of the <em>Olympic<\/em> was rushed into service as substitute <em>Titanic<\/em> footage, fooling audiences of 1912 and still vexing all except hardcore <em>Titanic<\/em> buffs*\u00a0a century later. The port side of the ship without the enclosed A deck is clearly visible from 1:15-1:25.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-minute newsreel about the disaster shows how the world saw what happened, and the rest of the footage including the <em>Carpathia&#8217;s<\/em> arrival in New York is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/29137590\/2015\/05\/22\/dubuques-largest-ever-museum-exhibit-titanic-set-to-open\"> A <em>Titanic<\/em> artifact exhibition is in Dubuque this summer<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>*Including yours truly, if that wasn&#8217;t obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press announced July 23 that it and British Movietone have recently posted over a million minutes of historic film and video news footage to YouTube. All have an AP watermark, but the bulk of the clips are newsreels. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/titanic-newsreel-among-historic-footage-in-ap-archive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6421,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}