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How many goofs are there on the 1997 movie Titanic?

There is quite a lot.. If you ever want to see if there are goofs.. or how many some people found.. or just to read them you can go to imdb.com, enter your movie and then when it comes up look at the left hand side of the screen and scoll down until you see "Fun Stuff" and the second bullet point is//should be//read "goofs" and you click on that.. and it gives you the goofs they've found or maybe even goofs that people have found themselves while they were watching the moive.. Here are the goofs that imdb.com found in the 1997 Titanic movie: * Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There are many minute contradictions of history, both in events and in the technical details of the ship. This film is prey to a large number of factual errors due to the large volume of documentary evidence from the actual event.* Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Rose's TV.* Crew or equipment visible: When Jack approaches the door to the grand staircase for the first time, the camera is reflected in the glass.* Factual errors: The Titanic's middle propeller was not used for maneuvering in port, and hence would have been stationary when starting away from the dock.* Factual errors: The reciprocating engines were controlled from a platform between the two engines about midway between the floor and the top of the cylinders, not from the engine room floor. Even if the engines were controlled from the floor level the controls would have been at the opposite end of the engines since we are looking at the aft end of the engines, and the boiler rooms are forward of the reciprocating engine room. Also, it would have been quite impossible to see those engines from the vantage point we are given since the watertight bulkhead between the reciprocating engine room and turbine engine room would prevent us from being able to stand back far enough.* Continuity: When Captain Smith orders, "Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch - let's stretch her legs," they are standing to the right of the wheelhouse looking forward with the sun coming from their left. When Murdoch walks into the wheelhouse to carry out the order, the sun is behind him.* Continuity: During the scene of the ship rising vertical immediately after it has split apart, there is a shot of the stern being pulled in by the bow, then there is a close-up shot of the deck at a 45 degree angle. It appears to not be moving (however, passengers are still sliding off), and there is no water on the hull visible.* Anachronisms: [acknowledged by the Director] Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wisota, near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir which wasn't created until five years after the Titanic sank.* Factual errors: According to historians, nobody on the ship referred to Margaret Brown as "Molly", her nickname at the time was actually "Maggie".* Anachronisms: The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not developed until 1946.* Factual errors: In overhead shots of the forecastle deck, the skylight for the crew's galley can be seen located to starboard. This skylight was actually on the port side.* Anachronisms: A close-up of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing modern contact lenses.* Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the movie, when the Titanic is nearly vertical, a man, who is sliding down the ship, hits one of the capstans and it bends showing that it is clearly made of rubber.* Factual errors: First Officer Murdoch, a real person, was depicted as committing suicide by gunshot in the movie. First Office Murdoch apparently went down with the Titanic or died by freezing/drowning in the water, and there is no evidence of any person shooting themselves to death during the sinking.* Revealing mistakes: When Rose punches the crewman who is dragging her down the hall, you can see the blood (from the blood pack) on his hand before it reaches his face. (Can be seen better in slow motion)* Anachronisms: The idea of Freud that Rose mentions to Ismay would be developed years later after the sinking.* Continuity: When Rose is doing her tippy toe thing at the party, she is seen with a cigarette in her hand and as the the camera cuts between shots, it disappears then comes back when the camera cuts again.* Factual errors: 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.* Factual errors: 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.* Anachronisms: The button on the left side of Jack's borrowed jacket is a "Kingsdrew" button, first made in 1922.* Continuity: Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are still standing apart.* Miscellaneous: When Rose and Jack (among others) are standing on the ship as it is sinking and they are about the go into the water, the size of the waves compared to the people don't match up. It looks as if the people were pasted there next to normal-sized waves.* Continuity: When Rose get's the fire ax to cut Jack loose, she breaks the glass. When the camera comes back, more glass is present than what was broken when she first broke it.* Continuity: When Rose lets Jack sink into the ocean, his mouth opens a bit. Since we already know that he is in fact dead, and since he is frozen (we saw this when Rose tried to pry his hand from hers) it should not be possible for him to open his mouth.* Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the glass door opened for Jack as he enters the dining room.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: "Eternal Father Strong To Save" is sung during the worship service. While Robert Nelson Spencer wrote two verses in 1937, the lines quoted in the film were quoted in a book published in 1921 and were probably written much earlier.* Factual errors: 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 April 14, the ship had in fact turned to almost a due west course, placing the actual setting sun almost straight ahead and slightly to the right.* Revealing mistakes: In the shot where Rose "flies," the faces of Jack and Rose are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.* Continuity: The length of Rose's fingernails throughout the movie.* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director James Cameron.)* Anachronisms: 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.* Factual errors: 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.* Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in a brass panel on the front of the Renault that Jack and Rose find in the cargo hold.* Factual errors: When the radio operator sends out the "CQD" message, the pattern of dots and dashes he makes with the key is not intelligible Morse code.* Factual errors: Professional radio operators hold the key with the thumb and two fingers, rather than tapping on it as shown. Tapping would produce a bad "fist" (the Morse code equivalent of a harsh voice).* Factual errors: 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.* Factual errors: The crew of lifeboat #14 didn't have flashlights to use when looking for survivors in the water. Cameron knew this when making the film, but used the flashlights to provide lighting.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Some artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic included a number made of paper, which were saved by being in leather bags or such; it is therefore possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The tugs that assisted the Titanic away from the Southampton dock did belong to the company known today as the Red Funnel Line, but they had not yet adopted that nickname or colour scheme. As shown in the film, the actual tugs had beige funnels.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although the Titanic's fourth smokestack was not an exhaust avenue for the ship's engines, it was used as an outlet for the Titanic's massive kitchen. Since the Titanic used coal stoves, some smoke would have been coming out of the fourth smokestack. In one of the flyovers of the ship, it is possible to see that most of the top of the fourth smokestack is sealed.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is often claimed that there is a tattoo visible on Rose's arm when she looks to be committing suicide. It is actually a moon-shaped black dot - some embellishment that has come loose from her robe, clearly visible in closer shots.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although her fingers partially obscure it, the coin that Rose gives to Jack is generally agreed to be a Barber dime, minted 1892-1916, not a modern dime as some viewers have incorrectly asserted. The Barber dime is distinctive because the portrait of Liberty on the head of the coin faces the right, not the left.* Anachronisms: The gun Cal uses is in fact a model 1911A1, a modified version of the 1911 that didn't appear until 1926. The main distinguishing feature is its curved mainspring housing (bottom part of the grip), which on the 1911 is straight. Even if it were the standard 1911, that model had only been used by the military for a few months, and was not yet available in the nickel plating shown; the civilian version had only been available for about a month.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The credits explain that some dramatic license has been taken; this is apparent with several minor characters. For example, Benjamin Guggenheim's mistress, Madame Aubert, never dined in the First-Class Dining Saloon; she took all of her meals in the a la Carte restaurant on B Deck.* Continuity: When the dinner party is breaking up, Cal throws the matches at Jack. Cal then passes Jack's shoulder twice as he's throwing the matches* Revealing mistakes: As the Titanic is sinking and begins to pitch forward, you can see passengers sliding forward across the deck. In one short scene, you can see a few people hit what's supposed to be a large metal reel. When they hit it, it crinkles, revealing that it's made of foam.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Rose is considering jumping off the ship at the beginning of the movie, she is not wearing the necklace she had on at dinner. Her hair is also different. In fact, there was a scene that was cut from the movie where Rose runs back to the parlor suite, tears off her necklace, lets her hair down, and in a fit of rage, destroys some of the items in her bedroom before running to the stern to attempt suicide.* Revealing mistakes: While walking on the deck the day after Jack rescues Rose, just before she shows him her ring, if you look over the rail of the ship you can see waves coming into shore.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The diamond in the film, "Le Coeur de la Mer", is supposed to be a diamond owned by Louis XVI and lost during the French Revolution, which Lovett also refers to as the "Blue Diamond of the Crown". In one early scene Lovett mentions to Rose that "today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond". Since that 56 ct. heart-shaped diamond is believed to be the source of the 45.5 ct. oval Hope Diamond, that makes sense. Further, since the source of the Hope Diamond is not certain, it's an acceptable fiction that it came from somewhere else and that the stone we see is the original, heart-shaped diamond.* Factual errors: There was no suction when the stern sank. Chief Baker Charles Joughin rode the stern all the way down. He stepped off as it submerged without even getting his head wet. However, Chief Baker was drunk at the time of the sinking, so this may have been an exaggeration on his behalf.* Anachronisms: The world map on the wall of the radio room shows countries with present-day borders.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: All accounts of the sinking by survivors report that the lights went out, flickered back on for a second, then went out for good before the ship broke in two, all of which is correctly shown in the movie. In fact, many survivors disputed that the ship broke apart at all before sinking. Naturally when the lights go out that quickly not everyone's eyes adjusted to the dark fast enough. Even though it has since been proven that the ship did break before sinking, one would imagine that there would be no room for dispute if the lights had stayed on until the ship broke.* Revealing mistakes: When Jack gives Rose the note after dinner, it's yellow, but when she reads it, it's white.* Anachronisms: When Rose is arriving in New York, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same color as now (green). But if you visit the statue of liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change color. The statue of liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been partly brown. Also, the flame was replaced in 1986 (for its 100th anniversary) with a gold flame. The film shows the Statue holding a torch with a gold flame, not the original.* Revealing mistakes: As the ship is tilting and Thomas Andrews is setting the mantle clock time to match his pocket watch, a glass falls off the mantle-piece. If you look under his arm the string that pulls it off is visible (in the wide screen version anyway)* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the ship is shown at night, there appears to be a smaller version of the ship along side it. In fact, this is a tender ship.* Factual errors: When Titanic left port it pulled the docks towards the ship so tugboats had to pull the dock back. This was because of the power and how it was moving. In the movie they don't show the docks doing that and they don't show tugboats holding them from the front view.* Factual errors: First Officer Murdoch is shown lowering Collapsible C lifeboat (the one with Ismay in it). It was actually Chief Officer Wilde who lowered this boat.* Revealing mistakes: In some shots it is visible that people who hang or fall off the Titanic cast shadows on the Titanic's hull, although the only source of light was Titanic itself.* Revealing mistakes: After Jack and Rose reunite the crying boy with his father in the flooded hallway outside the room where Rose frees Jack, there is a dimly lit, slow-motion shot of the two running toward the camera, but it is clearly not them; it is their stunt doubles.* Anachronisms: Filtered cigarettes did not come out until the mid-'40s.* Continuity: Young Rose's shoes are clearly off in one wide shot as she stands on the railing of the ship. As they cut to her before she turns around, when you can see her entire body, you can clearly see in two shots her toes outlined by black nylons clutching the rail, and NOT her heels as seen previously in other shots before and afterward when she slips on her gown going back over the rail to safety.* Continuity: When Jack and Fabrizio first take to the bow of the ship, while dolphins are swimming along with it, they show them at the helm with the ship flying along but then on the close up of Jack looking down, his hair is stiff and unmoved, not a breath of wind, which would be impossible on a ship flying onward at sea in the afternoon.* Boom mic visible: When old Rose is seated in her stateroom aboard the salvage ship with Lizzy her granddaughter and he comes in to ask if her stateroom's all right and if there's anything she'd like. She replies, "Yes, I'd like to see my drawing," and behind her on the wall you can see the large banana shaped shadow of the boom dip down for her line and up again.* Continuity: When Rose is on deck, with Jack, looking at his sketchings, the hair around her face alternates between perfect ringlets and wind-blown straight.* Factual errors: Captain Smith announces that he has ordered the last remaining unlit boilers lit. Actually only 24 of the 29 boilers were ever lit. The full-speed test (all boilers lit) was to have taken place on Monday, the 15th.* Continuity: When Jack is handcuffed to the pipe and Rose uses the ax to free him, one can see, especially in slow motion, that the ax hits the back of Jack's hand and not the handcuffs.* Revealing mistakes: During the ship flyover, if you look closely you see a lady in a burgundy coat walking, but her feet aren't touching the ground. She is floating.* Continuity: When Rose "lets Jack go" into the water, just before his eyes go under, you can see his eye flinch.* Revealing mistakes: When Cal is shooting at Jack and Rose, Cal's shot hits a pineapple-shaped decorative item on the top of the base banister. In the next shot, we see the pineapple neatly blown apart with no bullet marks and vertical scorch marks from the pyrotechnic that was apparently used to blow it in half in the preceding shot.* Continuity: The water is shown to be coming above the clock twice: once when the water is heading toward the ceiling when Eric Braeden is coming up the stairs, and again after the first funnel lands on Fabrizio.* Continuity: The angle that the surface of the rising water has to the objects around should be nearly the same from scene to scene. Frequently one sees the ship already tipping at a high angle on the outside and in the cabins the surface of the water is still parallel to the ceiling. That could not happen while the ship remained rigid.* Revealing mistakes: In order to show the correct side of the ship when it's docked, the image was flipped in post-production. As a result, there are an inordinate number of left-handed people waving from the deck of the ship.* Continuity: Jack's hair when he is dancing with Rose below decks.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: By 1912 color photography was beginning to pass beyond the experimental stage; the Autochrome plate, for instance, had been introduced in 1907. While the general public, or even most photographers, would still hardly be likely to take pictures in color, the owner of the fabulous Heart of the Ocean diamond might well have wanted to record it for posterity, cost no object, in all its colorful glory.* Revealing mistakes: As the the lifeboat occupants scan the bodies with their electric torches, looking for survivors, the pools of light cast on the water do not match where they point the torches. The pools of light are obviously coming from off-screen spotlights, and the torch-bearers are frantically moving the torches around to try to point to where the spotlights are pointing.* Continuity: As Rose and Cal begin their breakfast together on the promenade deck, Rose picks up her cup of coffee, then picks it up again when we see her from behind.* Crew or equipment visible: The skids of the camera helicopter are reflected in the window of the helicopter taking Rose and her granddaughter out to the research ship.* Crew or equipment visible: Just after the collision, as Captain Smith walks to the starboard bridge-wing to look over the side and inspect the damage, the shadow of the camera is visible in the bottom left corner.* Crew or equipment visible: While Jack is telling Rose about his past, the camera moves from a shot of the ship to a shot of them walking along the deck. You can see shadows of heaps of equipment and people moving along the ship (as the lights move).* Anachronisms: Rose has modern acrylic nails as she writes the note to Cal that accompanies the drawing.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The painting by Norman Wilkinson in the first class smoking room is actually an exact reproduction of "Plymouth Harbour," which went down on the Titanic, and not the Olympic's "Approach to the New World," a depiction of New York harbor. A few years back, black and white sketches of "Plymouth Harbour" were found and an exact copy was painted by his son for the Southampton Maritime Museum. The Museum confirms that the picture as shown is an accurate copy.* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Rose and Jack are on the ship as it is going down vertically, Jack says "Hold on!" about a second before his lips move.* Audio/visual unsynchronized: While on deck, Jack asks, "Do you love the guy or not?" The shot changes to show Rose's reaction. Jack's jaw can be seen moving, as if he's asking the same question again, but he's not heard.* Revealing mistakes: A few times When people are standing on the rail, they appear to be crudely "pasted" in front of the sky.* Revealing mistakes: When Rose is floating on the wooden plank and singing to herself, there is a shot of the stars in the sky. The stars on the left hand side of the screen are arranged symmetrically, revealing that the sky is artificial and the image has been mirrored.* Revealing mistakes: Passenger falling from higher deck can be seen to bounce off "wooden" lifeboat.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the overhead shot of the Titanic splitting in half, a victim slides upwards. If the person was sliding down as the ship broke, their momentum would allow them to keep sliding.* Revealing mistakes: In the last underwater shot during the collision with the iceberg obviously fake hull visible. The hull is sharply cut and there is some object behind it.* Anachronisms: While the officers are searching the hold for Jack and Rose, they use a flashlight with pure white light, not the yellowish light from a normal flashlight. Such lights were not available at that time.* Anachronisms: When Jack is handcuffed to the steel pipes in the Master-At-Arms office, the pipe fittings are of welded steel construction. Electric arc welding was not used until the late 1920's. Pipes would have been flanged and threaded.* Anachronisms: The Afghan hound depicted during the movie was a beautiful specimen of today but quite different from one from the 1912 era - these dogs were very sparsely coated and much coarser in build - still uniquely beautiful but quite a contrast to today's Afghans.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There were a number of roller coasters in Santa Monica, as early as 1904; in any case, Jack tends to embellish his stories.* Factual errors: When the Titanic is leaving, the newsreel cameraman is cranking the camera left-handed; hand-cranked cameras are all right-handed, but the scene was filmed mirror image and reversed.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Jack and Fabrizio's third-class cabin correctly contains two sets of bunk beds, or 4 berths.* Revealing mistakes: Rose's hair defies the law of gravity when she is atop the sinking ship. Her hair should be hanging down or at least moving in the cold wind as the scene suggests, but it is perfectly still and horizontal to the sinking ship.* Factual errors: The coat worn by Captain Smith had plain anchor buttons; the actual tunics had "White Star Line" buttons.* Factual errors: Fabrizio's and Jack's room on G-Deck starts to flood soon after the iceberg hits. However, plans of the Titanic show that there were no third-class rooms at the bow on that deck, only at the stern. There were "open berths" at the bow end.* Factual errors: In several scenes when the ship's officers are outdoors on the cold night of the sinking, the rank insignia has the executive curl (the semi-circle atop one or more stripes indicating the rank) going astern (the wrong way), this would result in great embarrassment for the officers involved.* Factual errors: The Titanic is shown to be at Southampton docks in brilliant sunshine. Yet, photographs from the actual event seem to show the sky overcast.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While the whistle Rose grabs from the dead man is metal and it's cold and wet out, the man had only just died, which would presumably leave him warm enough to keep the whistle from freezing in. And once Rose starts using it, what's left of her body heat would warm it in fairly short order (unlike, say, a fencepost, which is too large to warm). Therefore, it's reasonable that it wouldn't freeze to her mouth either.* Continuity: First Officer William Murdoch is seen trying to free one of the collapsible lifeboats after he has supposedly shot himself.* Continuity: After Jack and Rose take a shortcut through the engine room to escape Cal's manservant, there is no soot on Rose's pale blue gown.* Continuity: The size of shape of the clay pot Rose is making.* Continuity: The last watertight door that is shown is at first pale, suddenly it gets dark and it goes pale again when it closes* Continuity: In the scene with Jack and Rose having sex in the car, the pass-through window between the seats through which Rose pulls Jack is open when he goes through it, and then in the next shot is closed without ever seeing him close it.* Continuity: The safe that was opened on deck was much bigger than the one shown being used eighty years earlier.* Continuity: When Jack is held prisoner in the Master-at-arms' office you can see from time to time in the background a two-berth room. The top berth is neatly kept but later on even though Jack is alone and handcuffed and Rose in the two occasions she comes into that office never enters that room you can see that there is a pillow lying across the bed's border.* Continuity: A small sign "crew only," helps Rose to find her way to free Jack from the handcuffs. It is located on the archway of the corridor, but it was not there when Jack and Rose had come at the same spot (the elevator's hall at E deck) a few hours before fleeing from Lovejoy.* Continuity: After Rose wakes in the water, ice is seen on Jack's upper lip; in the side angle it's not there.* Continuity: When Jack and Fabrizio are playing cards, a fairly deep sore is noticeable on Jack's left middle finger as he holds his cards. The sore is gone when Jack joins Rose in the first class dining room for dinner only a few days later (the sore looks too deep to have healed so quickly).* Continuity: When the smokestack is falling, the back of it comes out of the water. In the scene directly after, it is still coming out of the water.* Continuity: When the Titanic is in port, the sun appears to come from several different angles. Compare the following: The shadow of the crewman loading the car, the shadows of people walking up the gangplank, the shadow of the sun's rays in the steam, the shadows that Rose and family cast on the gangplank, and the sunlight on the yellow building when they first enter Titanic.* Continuity: When storming out of his room claiming to be robbed, parts of Cal's bangs are hanging in front of his face but when he turns around to see the steward his hair is tucked back smoothly.* Continuity: At the dinner scene and the party scene below decks that follows, Rose's gloves disappear, reappear then disappear again* Continuity: There is a small mole on Rose's face; when she boards the ship, it is shown on one side of her face (the film was flopped), and later in the movie it jumps to the other side.* Continuity: When they get Cal's safe on the deck of the Keldysh, a crewman starts to grind on the hinges. In the next scene, he is standing up, just preparing to kneel down and work on the safe.* Anachronisms: Rose admires a Claude Monet painting called "The Nymphs", but this particular work of art was painted in 1915.* Miscellaneous: There is dirt on the lens (right side of screen) during the dining room scene angle on Jack.* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When they find their rooms in steerage and Jack introduces himself to the Swedish men, Fab takes the top bunk. Jack turns to Fab and says "Who says you get top bunk, huh?" but his mouth never moves then or later to actually say it.* Revealing mistakes: The closing credits state that titanic was "Filmed in Panavision". This is incorrect. It was filmed using the Super 35 process that James Cameron has used for all of his movies and not using the Panavision anamorphic wide screen process. It was filmed, however, with Panavision cameras.* Continuity: When Rose sets the ax between the bars as she takes off her coat, the ax blade rests against two metal bars to keep it from falling into the water. The next shot showing Rose from behind now shows the ax at a completely different angle with the blade positioned against only one metal bar.* Continuity: During Jack and Rose's trip on the deck to the bow right before the sinking, she is wearing flat shoes. In the water, laying on the furniture (as Jack hangs on) she is wearing high heels.* Continuity: After the "Lets stretch her legs" scene, we can see chief engineer Bell increasing steam pressure by turning the regulator counterclockwise. Later during the collision with the iceberg, we can see some worker decreasing pressure by starting to turn the regulator clockwise, yet in next shot he is turning the regulator counterclockwise still decreasing the pressure. Several shots later, after change to reverse, Bell is increasing pressure by turning the regulator clockwise.* Continuity: Paper money wad that First Officer Murdoch throws at Cal.* Continuity: When Jack and Fabrizio are standing at the bow Jack is holding his arm under the rope that goes up toward the look-out. In the next cut the arm is over and in the next again it's under.* Continuity: When Jack breaks down the third-class gate and frees the steerage passengers from the stairwell, you can see Tommy Ryan take Rose by the arm to get her over the fallen bench. In the next shot, he takes her arm again in the same place.* Continuity: After Jack saves Rose from jumping from the stern of the ship, the make-up under Rose's left eye appears and disappears, then reappears, as does the dress she is holding in her left hand.* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Brock is filming from the inside of the submarine, he's supposed to be well under water, by the wreck of the Titanic.The light outside the window is coming from the submersible's outside lights.* Revealing mistakes: When Tommy yells, "You can't keep us locked in here like animals, the ship's bloody sinking!" his right hand is grabbing on to the gate at head level. The next shot shows Tommy with his right hand down and his left hand grabbing the gate.* Anachronisms: When Jack and Fabrizio are running to board the Titanic, Jack has a rucksack. The rucksack is standard issue Swedish Army gear, circa 1939, which was 27 years after the Titanic sank.* Crew or equipment visible: When Rose and Jack are on the first-class promenade, where she is thanking him, the shadow of the camera is visible on the wall.* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jack throws the cigarette in the water, it disappears before it reaches to the end of the screen.* Revealing mistakes: When the dock workers at Southampton cast off Titanic's mooring lines, the heaving lines are still attached to her mooring lines. The smaller heaving lines are used only to pull a ship's larger mooring lines down to the dock when the ship arrives. Then, only the ship's mooring lines are fastened to the dock or are cast off when she departs.* Revealing mistakes: An overhead shot of the ship on its way to New York shows the shadows of the masts falling to the left, but the sun is shining from the left (=south) also.* Audio/visual unsynchronized: As the ship is sinking, the string players walk away, but one remains. As he begins to play, two others return. One is a double bass, but the sound of a double bass is not heard within the piece.* Factual errors: The dolphins seen in the "I'm King of the World" segment (when Jack and his friend are up on the bow of the ship) are Pacific White-sided dolphins. The Titanic was in the North Atlantic on it's way to New York. It would have been impossible for them to see Pacific White-sided dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean.* Anachronisms: The handcuffs worn by Jack were made from stainless steel which was not invented until 1913. In the early 1900's, handcuffs were made from mild steel (often galvanized to prevent rusting). The metallic luster from Jack's handcuffs shows that it was either made from silver (which was not used on handcuffs in 1912) or stainless steel.* Revealing mistakes: When Jack is drawing the portrait of Rose, she says "I believe you are blushing, Mr.Big Artiste", and you can clearly see that there is nothing on the paper.* Continuity: After the collision with the iceberg, the Captain orders all engines to be stopped. However, the telegraph bells are only heard once, meaning that the other engine would still be in full reverse, which it clearly isn't.* Revealing mistakes: In the scene with the church service, the pianist can be seen hitting the keys, but not moving his hands to change chords or hit any other notes.* Continuity: On the scene back into Rose's cabin, after Lovejoy slips the diamond into Jack's pocket, Jack's left hand in his trouser pocket changes from having the thumb in/out of it between shots.* Continuity: When Rose and her granddaughter are at their home, their Pomeranian is brown. When Rose is being lifted out of the helicopter, and when she is in her suite unpacking, the Pomeranian is white.* Crew or equipment visible: During 'Nearer My God To Thee', when we see Thomas Andrews standing at the fireplace, when he changes the time on the clock, a few glasses fall off the mantle "from the tilt". But, you can see (at least in the 2.35:1 widescreen verison), the string that is used to pull the second glass off the mantle against his back coat.* Factual errors: Rose says she bought herself a few paintings by Picasso while Cal mocks her choices. Later as the ship sinks, we see artwork floating in their room including Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The picture, though unframed, is rigid as if nailed to a canvas stretcher (rather than having been rolled-up). Unfortunately, unless it were rolled-up, Rose wouldn't have been able to get that painting through her cabin's door; the picture is massive --around eight feet to a side. In any case, Demoiselles is much bigger than the large-poster-sized version shown.* Factual errors: The production staff invested considerable research time into the furnishings and objects of the ship (down to the level of re-creating carpets from original patterns) but there might have been less attention given to art history: the Picasso shown floating in Rose's flooding cabin is the famed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon which certainly did not go down with Titanic (or any other ship). The celebrated 1907 painting has been hanging in the Met in New York City since 1939!* Revealing mistakes: The Swedish spoken by the card-playing man (who is later close to punching Jack as he wins the tickets) is obviously learned for the occasion by the actor and barely intelligible, although it reveals that he is angry because his friends is staking the tickets. The actor playing his friend, however, is certainly a native speaker, and defends his actions by saying that he is trying to win the tickets back.* Factual errors: John Jacob Astor is seen in the forward first class staircase as it is submerged and destroyed by the water but John Jacob Astor was in fact outside on deck when the forward funnel toppled over. His body was recovered and was badly mangled and covered in soot.* Factual errors: The Palm Court's size, color and length are correct as is the kind of wicker furniture but the color of the wicker was not the same as the first class reception room's, it was in fact white. * Factual errors: All of the double doors on D deck, the ones passengers pass through to the elevators and to the first class dining room, are incorrect. The real ones on the Titanic all had glass and the handles were further up in the middle attached to rectangle metal plates.

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