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Sirs,
The sequence is specially interesting in that both Mir 1
and Mir 2 can be seen. Being at the seabed at 3821 meters - is the cameraman a
scubadiver ?
No - the picture is taken in a dry soundstage - and shows
model submersibles. In all "Titanic" scenes where both submersible can be seen -
what you see is cleverly made models - not even in water. Water effects such as
sediments are added in post production with CGI techniques.
Reuters brought the picture to show how the submersibles
looked like - but forgot to tell that is was archival footage.
All in all - the very best shots of the subs and wreck in
"Titanic" are the artificial ones. And I can imagine how good this looks if we
imagine - and are being told - that this is the north pole.
Source for details on Mir footage: American
Cinematographer feature on "Titanic", 1998.
Blame the not the russians, but Reuters.
Regards,
Peter
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:30
AM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] MIR's at
North Pole
Reuter's really messed up the video footage on this one.
"News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it
released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of
the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.
The images were
reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited
- alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on
Thursday last week.
But it has now emerged that the footage actually showed two Finnish-made
Mir submersibles that were employed on location filming at the scene of the
wreck of the RMS Titanic ship in the north Atlantic some 10 years ago.
This footage
was used in sequences in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster about the 1912
disaster.
The mistake was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy
contacted a local newspaper to tell them the images looked identical to those
used in the movie."
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2146373,00.html
Regards,
Brent
Hartwig
From: joeperkel@hotmail.com
To:
personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] MIR's at
North Pole
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:20:24 +0000
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/02/ap3981060.html
From: "Joseph Perkel" <joeperkel@hotmail.com>
Reply-To:
personal_submersibles@psubs.org
To:
personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
MIR's at North Pole
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:35:22
+0000
....Just read this off of Forbes, the MIRS are submerged
on the seafloor on the North Pole at this moment!
To get back through the ice, I suspect they will have to
make mid-course corrections on the ascent....this is really neat
stuff!
Joe ************************************************************************
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