K, I'm not sure if this is a goof or not, but Jack's room was in G-deck right? *Was* there a G deck? I didn't see it on the map..Correction, I *did* find it on the map. Problem is, I didn't see a G60. So was he saying G60? Or G16?

Some goofs submitted by visitors:

• Submitted by Sarah: In the scene when Rose is about to jump off the boat and Jack is saving her you can see a strange figure in the backround. This is a building that happend to be behind the set in Mexico. James Cameron "forgot to take it out of the scene".He noticed his mistake when he saw the premiere of TITANIC.
• Anonymous: During one of the sinking scenes, you can see a 747 taking off.

K, these are all from the Internet Movie Database; I'm not sure that they *are* all goofs, but anyways. :-)

• Lake Wissota wasn't created until five years after the Titanic sank.
• A maid pushing a cart disappears when Rose and Jack are running away from Mr. Lovejoy.
• The positioning of the sunset in some scenes makes it appear as if the ship is going north instead of west.
• Before Rose uses the axe to break Jack out of the handcuffs, there are already marks on the pipe from earlier takes. What's more, the number of marks change from shot to shot.
• Molly Brown was not referred to as such until after her death.
• The Titanic struck the iceberg on the starboard side, not the port side.
• Make-up artists on the film used pictures of corpses from the disaster, but it is claimed that the amount of ice in the hair of victims in the movie is excessive. Sea water would not have frozen, and the only source of fresh water in the hair would be breath, which would not contain nearly as much as depicted in the short time depicted.
• The crew and equipment is reflected in Rose's TV at the beginning. It is also reflected in the glass door that is opened for Jack right before the dinner scene.
• The funnels of the tugs escorting the Titanic out of Southampton should have been red, as the tugs belonged to the Red Funnel Line.
• 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.
• 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.
• Young Rose's eyes are green, whereas Old Rose's eyes are blue. (The one exception is that Young Rose's eyes were blue during the scene that focused on her eyes while she morphed from Young to Old Rose.)
• 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.
• 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.
• Cal orders Lamb with Mint Sauce for himself and Rose. Lamb was only availalble for dinner on the ship, while mutton was reserved for lunch. The lamb was prepared in the D-Deck gallery and would not have been served in the Palm Court.
• The worship services held at 10:30 on Sunday 14th, 1912 in the First Class Dining Room were open to all passengers of the ship.
• "Eternal Father Strong To Save'' is sung during the worship service; the verse that begins, "Lord, guard and guide the men who fly/ Through the great spaces in the sky," was written by Mary C. D. Hamilton in 1915.
• The hands used to sketch Rose belong to director James Cameron, and are clearly too old to belong to Jack. After the first few lines of the sketch are drawn, a blood blister appears below his thumbnail. [Melanie's note--I don't necessarily agree that they were too old; you really can't always tell a person's age by looking at their hands. I mean, Jack was steerage, right? His hands aren't going to be perfectly neat and tidy and young looking. He's had to work for his living. Just my two cents on that one.]
• Workers in the Titanic's engine room had to wear thick protective clothing to sheild them from the heat generated by the engines.
• The gauges in the engine room were fitted with sweated tubing fittings, a plumbing technique not available when the ship was constructed. The fittings should have been threaded brass.
• The "CQD" disaster message that the radio operator started clicking out on the telegraph key was not intelligible Morse code.
• JJ Astor is last seen in the First Class main staircase as the glass dome implodes. His body was recovered from the North Atlantic a few weeks after the sinking. The body was crushed and coversed with soot, indicating that he had been crushed by the collapsing #1 funnel.
• Cal is shown escaping on a boat that wasn't launched, but rather floated away as the deck became submerged. It is true that some of the lifeboats did become waterborne this way, but these were all of the collapsable kind with canvas sides, not the regular hard-bottomed variety which were lowered on ropes.
• Second Officer Lightoller never drew his pistol, let alone fired it. In fact he kept it in his coat pocket until after the ship sank, at which time he took it out and dropped it because it was weighing him down.
• The porthole in the room where Jack is held prisoner 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.
• 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. [Melanie's note: does the Californian count? :-)]
• When the rescue ship enters New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty is seen, the torch visible is the new, restored torch (post 1986), which is gold-leaf covered and illuminated from the exterior, unlike the original torch, which was illuminated from within and had an amber stained-glass look. Inocorrectly regarded as errors:
  • The Titanic only required three smokestacks, however naval superstitions state that it is good luck to have four. A fourth, nonfunctional smokestack was installed on the ship, but never spewed smoke as indicated in the film. 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.
  • It has been stated that the paintings in Rose's room are famous works that did not go down with Titanic. The paintings were by artists noted for creating many similar paintings.
  • Rose gives Jack a Roosevelt dime, which would not have existed in 1912. Although her fingers partially obscured it, the coin that Rose gives to Jack is generally agreed to be a Barber dime, minted 1892-1916. The Berber dime is distinctive because the portrait of Liberty on the head of the coin faces the right, not the left.
  • The Titanic was steered in what is now seen as reverse: the wheel was turned to starboard (right) to turn the ship to port (left). The order given when the berg was sighted was ``hard-a-starboard'', calling for the wheel to be spun to the right so the ship will turn left. In the movie, ``hard-a-starboard'' is ordered, the wheel is spun to the LEFT, and the ship turns to the left. After the iceberg is spotted, First Officer Murdoch bellows a helm order: ``Hard a'starboard!'' But Quartermaster Hichens, manning the wheel, turns the wheel counter-clockwise, or to port. At first glance this would seem to be a mistake. The order itself, ``Hard a'starboard,'' was a holdover from earlier days when the tiller of a ship would be used to control the rudder. Pushing the tiller to the right (starboard) would cause the ship to turn to the left (port). So a turn to port was ordered by calling ``harda'starboard.'' Sources differ on whether the Titanic, like her contemporaries, had a direct-driven telemotor, which means turning the wheel counter-clockwise (toward the left) would cause the rudder to turn left, resulting in a turn to port. Director James Cameron is on the record as being aware of the possible confusion that turning the wheel in the ``wrong'' direction might create, but decided to include it to be as accurate as possible.
  • The gun that Cal uses to go after Rose and Jack had not been made in 1912. The gun that Cal uses to go after Rose and Jack was a Colt 45M1911, created in 1910. The gun holds 7 bullets in the clip with an eighth in the chamber. Cal did not pull back the slide (which would have ejected a bullet) before shooting and fired exactly eight shots.
  • The lifeboats are marked SS Titanic instead of RMS Titanic. The lifeboats for RMS Titanic were in fact labeled ``SS Titanic''. This is verified by a photograph which appears on page 718 of National Geographic Magazine Vol. 168 no. 6 (December 1985).
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