There is a very good reason why the list of factual goofs for this TV movie is so long (and despite it's length it is quite incomplete).
This was an extremely rushed production to capitalize on the public's Titanic fever while James Cameron's movie was being made. The sets were slapped together in a great hurry and in the final days of shooting extras would be placed to hide spots where the sets had been damaged. As one of the worst examples, on the very last day of shooting on the hydraulically-tilted ship deck two extras were assigned to support one of the ships exhaust vents to keep it from toppling over.
Much of the later shooting was done in an aluminum quonset building and adding the mid-summer heat pounding down to that of of the set lights makes for an uncomfortably hot environment.
Combining the rush and the heat was the perfect setting for an extremely tense and stressed working environment, to put it politely.
I'm just surprised the production turned out as good as it did, all things considered. It's worth a watch and pretty decent as a made-for-TV production, but best treated as a work of fiction to enjoy the story it tells.
This was an extremely rushed production to capitalize on the public's Titanic fever while James Cameron's movie was being made. The sets were slapped together in a great hurry and in the final days of shooting extras would be placed to hide spots where the sets had been damaged. As one of the worst examples, on the very last day of shooting on the hydraulically-tilted ship deck two extras were assigned to support one of the ships exhaust vents to keep it from toppling over.
Much of the later shooting was done in an aluminum quonset building and adding the mid-summer heat pounding down to that of of the set lights makes for an uncomfortably hot environment.
Combining the rush and the heat was the perfect setting for an extremely tense and stressed working environment, to put it politely.
I'm just surprised the production turned out as good as it did, all things considered. It's worth a watch and pretty decent as a made-for-TV production, but best treated as a work of fiction to enjoy the story it tells.