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(1997)

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(at around 53 mins) When Jack and Rose are talking about going to the Santa Monica Pier, Jack says that they will "ride on the roller coaster until we throw up" but the roller coaster was not built until 1916.
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(at around 34 mins) Rose mentions Sigmund Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. Freud did not publish the work relating to this until 1920 in "The Pleasure Principle." Also, up until 1919, Freud relied solely on data from females.
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(at around 40 mins) [acknowledged by James Cameron] Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir which wasn't created until 1917.
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(at around 3h) When Rose is arriving in New York, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same color as now (copper green). But if you visit the Statue of Liberty, we'll find a plate telling us that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change color. The Statue of Liberty was established 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.
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The underwater shots of the propellers are incorrect. The famous photo of the ship in dry dock and the men standing under the propellers clearly shows that the propellers were bolted together with giant nuts as was the practice at that time. The underwater shots of the propellers show smooth metal (no bolt heads/nuts) suggesting welding, which were not available until WWII.
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(at around 1h 29 mins) Rose has modern acrylic nails as she writes the note to Cal that accompanies the drawing.
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(at around 1h 55 mins) When Jack is shown in the Master-at-Arms' office from the outside of the ship through a porthole, the hull appears to be of a smooth, modern welded construction. In fact, the Titanic's hull was constructed of overlapping plates held in place with round-headed rivets.
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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.
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(at around 25 mins) When Jack and Fabrizio are running to board the Titanic, Jack has a rucksack, standard issue Swedish Army gear, circa 1939.
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(at around 1h 7 mins) The tune that Jack and Rose dance to on steerage is called "Hills of Connemara", written by Sean McCarthy, who was born in 1923, 11 years after the Titanic sank. Admittedly, however, he could have composed on musical themes already in circulation.
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(at around 29 mins) According to historians, nobody on the ship nicknamed Margaret Brown as Molly, her nickname at the time was actually Maggie.
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Rose displays a collection of paintings in her cabin including Claude Monet's ,'Water Lillies', Pablo Picasso's ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' Picasso's 'The Great Player' which are still in existence in galleries, but one is Picasso's 'The Guitar Player' which had't been painted when the ship sank.
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(at around 1h 14 mins) When the first class passengers are attending a church service, they are singing 'Eternal Father, Strong to Save' which was a hymn at the time. However, they are heard singing the US Episcopal Church version, which was not written until 1940.
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(at around 1h 50 mins) When Jack is handcuffed to the steel pipes at the Master-at-Arms' office, the pipe fittings are of welded steel construction. Electric arc welding was not used until the late 1920s. Pipes would have been flanged and threaded instead.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) The gun Cal steals from Lovejoy is in fact a model 1911A1, a modified version of the 1911 that wasn't available until 1926. The main distinguishing feature is its curved mainspring housing (bottom part of the grip), whereas on the 1911 is straight. Even if it was 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.
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The button on the left side of Jack's borrowed jacket is a Kingsdrew button, first made in 1922.
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(at around 23 mins) 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.
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(at around 1h 19 mins) When Rose and her mother are at tea on the last Sunday of the voyage, Mrs. DeWitt-Bukater can be heard complaining to the other ladies about Rose's selection for bridesmaids' dresses and the color. She can be heard to reference the "daughter of the Duchess of Marlborough". In 1912, the Duchess of Marlborough was American débutante Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough who was the first wife to the Ninth Duke of Marlborough whom she married in November of 1895. When the Duke and Duchess separated in 1906, they were not formally divorced until 1921. In 1912, Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough was still the Duchess of Marlborough of record. As such, she and the Duke had two sons but no daughters, and neither of their sons was of marriageable age in 1912 and the eldest son, John Spencer-Churchill, the Tenth Duke of Marlborough did not inherit the dukedom until 1934.
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(at around 2h 50 mins) While the officers are searching the hold for Jack and Rose, they use flashlights with pure white light 7000k, not the yellowish light 2500k from a normal flashlight. Such flashlights were not available at that time. The light was a PEAKBEAM short-arc light; the tale-tell circle in the middle of the beam for the lamp-holder shows this.
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The pipe frames supporting the third-class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, which not developed until 1946.
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When Rose (Kate Winslet) pays Jack (Leonardo DeCaprio) for her drawing, she pays him with a modern Dime with Franklin D Roosevelt on the face. This version of the coin wasn't in effect until 1946; the correct coin should have been the "Barber Dime" with Lady Liberty on the face.
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A close-up of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing modern contact lenses.
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(at around 3h) In the final scenes of the film, the camera pans on old black and white pictures of Rose. The last one shown is her on a horse with the Colossus Roller Coaster from Magic Mountain in the background. Colossus was built not until 1978.
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(at around 1h 45 mins) Jack Phillips, the radio operator, used both the older CQD and the newer SOS. He added SOS at the suggestion of Harold Bride, the assistant operator, according to Snopes; other ships had already used it.
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(at around 36 mins) The ruby dress Rose wore when she tried to kill herself is far too modern for that time period.
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After Jack completes his drawing of Rose, the orchestra can be heard faintly playing The Lark Ascending in the background. This piece wasn't written until 1914 and not played publicly until 1920.
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Audio/visual unsynchronised 

(at around 2h 50 mins) After the Titanic sinks, a lifeboat returns to look for survivors. The officer in the boat is shouting and his voice is echoing; for it to echo it would have to hit a surface and bounce back but because it's the middle of the Atlantic, there is nothing to echo back from.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) After the collision with the iceberg, the Captain orders all engines stopped. However, the telegraph bells are only heard once, meaning that the other engine would still be in full reverse, which clearly isn't.
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(at around 1h 14 mins) During the church service, the pianist can be seen hitting the keys, but not moving his hands to change chords or hit any other notes, higher or lower.
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(at around 49 mins) While on deck, Jack asks Rose, "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 repeating the question, but he's not heard.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) 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.
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(at around 1h 45 mins) After Cal has slapped Rose across the face, one of the stewards comes in and tells them to put their lifebelts on, he says, "Dress warmly, it's quite cold out tonight. May I suggest top coats and hats?" But his mouth stops moving before he says, "and hats?"
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(at around 54 mins) When Jack pulls Rose's hand to spit off the deck with him, Rose says, "Jack, no" multiple times. It's an obvious dub, because while she's saying it her mouth isn't moving.
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(at around 28 mins) When they find their rooms in steerage and Jack introduces himself to the two 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.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When escaping from steerage, when Tommy says "if that's the way the rats are going, that's good enough for me", his mouth doesn't appear to be moving, at least not in synch with the dialogue he is heard saying.
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(at around 2h 10 mins) Second Officer Lightoller shouts, "Hold on to her! Pull her in!" when a woman ready to board a lifeboat is accidentally pushed overboard, yet his mouth does not move.
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Boom mic visible 

(at around 15 mins) When old Rose is seated in her stateroom aboard the salvage ship with Lizzy her granddaughter and Boudine 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 we can see a large banana shaped shadow of the boom mic dip down for her line and up again.
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(at around 1h 11 mins) In the open matte 3D version of the film, Cal tells Rose that she is his wife if not yet practiced by law and that she'll honor him. When he says "so you will," a shadow of the boom mic is visible.
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Character error 

Thomas Andrews is portrayed as having a soft Irish 'brogue' type accent. He came, in fact, from a staunchly Unionist background in Belfast (his brother was the future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) and he would have had the same upper class British accent, which was a common feature among the wealthy landed gentry of the period and indeed is still common to this day.
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(at around 15 mins) At the beginning of the movie, Lizzy questions her grandmother's claim that she is the woman in the drawing, Rose Dewitt Bukater. However, the photographs of Old Rose's life at the end of the movie show her younger and with an uncanny resemblance to the appearance of the woman in the drawing. It seems strange that Lizzy would never have looked at photos of her grandmother's life before, if she did, she would certainly have noticed the similarity. Lizzy even helped her grandmother unpack the pictures in their stateroom when they arrived on the Keldysh, but apparently didn't even notice the similarity then either.
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Most of the children have American accents, despite their parents having foreign (British, Irish) accents.
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Someone getting into a lifeboat is wearing a digital watch.
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When the warning about the iceberg is first given, an order is yelled by 2 crewmen to "turn to starboard!" This is contradicted immediately by the helmsman turning the wheel to port - which, since the Titanic hit the iceberg on her starboard side, should have been the order instead.
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(at around 15 mins) After first seeing her drawing aboard the Mstislav Keldysh, "Old Rose" claims to have worn the necklace with the "Heart of The Ocean" only once while on Titanic, referring to her wearing it for the drawing. This was actually the second time - the first was in her stateroom following her attempt to jump from the ship, as Cal puts it on her to placate her.
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(at around 17 mins) When Lewis Bodine is talking about the moment the iceberg hit the Titanic he states that it "punched holes like Morse code... below the water line" in the hull; however, this is not the case. There were many possible factors in the sinking but the closest to Bodine's statement is that when the iceberg hit, it popped the rivets, causing the hull to open and let the water pour in.
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Captain Smith was entitled to the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Decoration (the RD) and the Transport Medal. The actor is wearing the RD suspended from the ribbon of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. His Transport Medal is in fact the Royal Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
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(at around 3h) During the last scene at the Grand Staircase, after Jack turns around and smiles to greet Rose, he keeps looking at the camera after it turns to reveal Rose.
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(at around 9 mins) Brock tried to broadcast his finding of the "Heart of the Ocean" jewel live. When the safe was opened and the diamond necklace found to be missing, his colleague remarks, "The same thing happened to Geraldo Rivera, and his career never recovered", a reference to his one off show, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults. Whilst Geraldo never worked in news reporting again, his career did recover but in a different direction, he reinvented himself with a successful career in tabloid entertainment, including his own talk show, The Geraldo Rivera Show.
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(at around 22 mins) At the Southampton pier, Cal tells Rose that the Titanic is "over a hundred feet longer than [the contemporary Cunard liner] Mauretania." In fact the Mauretania was 790 feet long, only 92 feet shorter than the 882-foot-long Titanic.
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At the end just before Murdoch shoots Tommy, Tommy uses the word "Limey". Limey is an American term for the British and its unlikely like Tommy, who's Irish and never been to America, would know such a term.
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A small child smiles into the camera while the ship is sinking,
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When Mr. Andrews is summoned to the bridge, he leaves his room (A Deck) and is seen walking along a B Deck corridor. This route would take him on a long detour to get to the bridge as opposed to simply walking up the promenade deck to and ascending a flight of stairs.
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(at around 20 mins) Rose tells Brock Lovett and his crew that "Titanic was called 'the ship of dreams.'" Although she doesn't specify by whom or when, there is no record of the phrase "ship of dreams" appearing in any contemporaneous news or publicity accounts of the Titanic, nor of her virtually-identical sister ship RMS Olympic which had been in service for a year by the time the Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage.
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(at around 56 mins) After the first-class dinner is announced, Rose says "see you at dinner, Jack", presumably without a hint of irony. However, given Jack's tramp-like appearance it would have been obvious to her that he would never have passed for a first-class passenger, thus being denied entry to the restaurant in question.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) When Rose escapes from her fiance's bodyguard into a lift she raises her middle finger at him. Not a gesture an Edwardian lady would use.
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(at around 59 mins) Rose says to Jack that Madeleine Astor is her age. Madeleine Astor was 19 when she was aboard Titanic while Rose is 17 (though Kate Winslet was 19-20 years old at the time of shooting).
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Literally translated, "le coeur de la mer" means "the heart of the sea," not "the heart of the ocean" which would be "le coeur de l'océan."
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After the sinking, only Jack and Rose are shivering in the ocean.
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Continuity 

(at around 1h 35 mins) While Rose and Jack are having sex in the Renault, we can see Rose's hand leaving a print on the rear window. Immediately after that, the camera moves inside the car, and it is clearly seen that the handprint is not only in a lower part of the window, but also in a different shape.
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(at around 1h) Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to escort them to dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot, they are still standing apart.
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After the drawing is completed and Rose has dressed, she is not wearing her engagement ring. Several scenes from then until the final sinking, show her left hand devoid of the ring. However, when she is underwater after the stern has sunk, a scene shows the violent suction of the water pulling that ring off her finger and flying away in the vortex.
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When Jack and Rose first meet at the stern, Rose is clearly wearing jeweled, slip-on shoes and black stockings. However, when she is lying on the deck after Jack rescues her, she is wearing red lace up boots instead.
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Young Rose's shoes are clearly off in one wide shot as she stands on the railing of the ship. As we cut to her before she turns around, when we can see her entire body, we 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 as Jack pulls her back over the rail to safety.
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At the first class dinner scene and the party scene below decks that follows, Rose's gloves disappear, reappear, then disappear again.
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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.
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(at around 30 mins) After the Titanic sets off to the open sea, we can see Chief Engineer Bell increasing steam pressure by turning the regulator counterclockwise. Later, during the collision with the iceberg (at around 1h 35 mins), 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.
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(at around 2h) When Rose breaks the glass to get the fire axe, almost all the glass falls out. In the next shot, she reaches in for the axe, and most of the glass is still in the case.
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Murdoch orders "full astern", he moves the engine order telegraph three times before he sets it on the desired speed. Three rings on the order telegraph indicates to the engine crew that an urgent speed change is needed, rather than the usual single ring. When the camera cuts to the engine room, only one ring is heard.
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(at around 2h) In the original release, when Rose is looking for help to free Jack from the handcuffs, she is pulled in the wrong direction by a crew member. She gets frustrated and punches him, causing a bloody nose. Even before he grabs his nose, it is shown he has blood on his fingers already. This was corrected in the 2012 re-release so all Blu-Ray and streaming versions will no longer have this mistake.
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(at around 29 mins) 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.
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(at around 2h) 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 (at around 1h 30 mins).
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(at around 21 mins) 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 the gangplank, the shadow of the sun's rays in the steam, the shadows that Rose's family cast on the gangplank, and the sunlight on the yellow building when they first enter Titanic.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) In the scene with Jack and Rose having sex in the Renault, the pass-through window between the seats through which Rose pulls Jack is open when he slips through it, and then in the next shot is closed without ever seeing him close it.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) When Jack helps Rose into the Renault before they have sex, two roses are seen in a glass vase on the car's wall; when she pulls Jack into the back of the car with her, the roses and vase are gone.
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(at around 2h 15 mins) When Rose is in the lifeboat, it starts lowering. However, after Cal and Jack finish their little talk, the boat is actually higher than it was when they began chatting.
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(at around 36 mins) When Jack sees Rose for the first time on deck, the scar next to his right eye is now on his left - a sign that the image was flopped.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) When Rose breaks Jack's handcuffs with an axe the stand-in for Leonardo DiCaprio (as seen from behind) is not wearing suspenders.
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(at around 10 mins) When old Rose and her Lizzy are at their home, their Pomeranian is brown. When Rose is being lifted down from the helicopter, and when she is in her stateroom unpacking, the Pomeranian is white.
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Officer Moody takes the call from the lookouts warning about the iceberg ahead, the clock reads 11:40pm. Four minutes later, when Captain Smith arrives on the bridge, the clock still reads 11:40pm, even though four minutes have passed.
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In the beginning of the movie, when the old Rose is getting off, she is wearing a specific pair of earrings. In the next few scenes, the earrings change. After the story unfolds, they've changed back to the original pair in the scenes where she appears, including the end.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) After the iceberg collision, there is a scene where Mr. Andrews passes worried by the Countess with the ship's schematics in his hands. Immediately after this scene, the ship is shown. This supposedly is happening a few minutes after the collision, so the ship must have its bow slightly down in the water. In that shot, the ship's bow is recognizable and it can be seen that its tail is slightly down, not its head.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) The last watertight door that is shown is at first pale, then suddenly it gets dark, and it goes pale again when it closes.
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(at around 8 mins) When Cal's safe is recovered on the Keldysh's deck, a crewman starts grinding on the hinges. In the next scene, he is standing up, just preparing to kneel down and work on the safe.
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(at around 18 mins) When Lewis Bodine talks about when the Titanic hit the iceberg, he wears a shirt with the yellow Watchmen's Smiley Face. Later, during Rose's story, when he says that Captain Smith has the iceberg warning "in his fucking hand" (at around 1h 23 mins), he wears a completely different shirt.
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(at around 32 mins) When Jack and Fabrizio first head to the bow of the ship, while dolphins are swimming along with it, they are shown at the helm with the ship sailing along, but then in 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 sailing onward at sea in the afternoon.
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The safe that was opened on deck was much bigger than the one shown on the real Titanic.
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(at around 22 mins) After Rose gets out of the car, Mr. Lovejoy is in another car opening the door for Ruth as she gets out. When Cal says "and far more luxurious", Ruth is seen exiting the car again.
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(at around 47 mins) When Jack and Rose are walking on the boat deck, the sunlight changes from being on their side to behind them.
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Murdoch tells quartermaster Hitchen to turn hard a starboard he passes behind Moody to the telegraph. In the next scene he passes Moody again.
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(at around 17 mins) Old Rose's hands on the butterfly clip change position in between shots.
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(at around 15 mins) Brock's position on the picture of the Heart of the Ocean necklace changes position in-between shots.
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(at around 1h 26 mins) When Rose first lies down for her drawing, the Heart of the Ocean is crooked, with its bottom point pointing sharply to Rose's left. It straightens between shots, after Jack tells her what to do with her hands. The chain is still slightly crooked but the Heart itself is lying straight.
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(at around 39 mins) After Rose and Jack are found lying on the deck, after Jack saves Rose from her attempted suicide, where Hockley, Lovejoy, and the ship's rescue team have appeared to see what the commotion was about, Rose's earrings are undeniably green at every angle, so it could not have been a lighting effect. At dinner, and standing on the railing, they were black and silver, to match her necklace she previously wore.
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(at around 2h 15 mins) When Rose is in the lowering lifeboat looking up at Jack the smokestack behind him is lit, but in the next scene it isn't.
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(at around 31 mins) 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 it's under it again.
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(at around 1h 45 mins) 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.
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(at around 1h 10 mins) When Cal and Rose are having breakfast, Cal puts his teacup on the saucer but in the next scene he still has it in his hand.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) When Tommy yells, "You can't keep us locked in here like animals, the ship's bloody sinking!" his right hand is grabbing the gate at head level. The next shot shows Tommy with his right hand down and his left hand grabbing the gate.
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When the engineers get the order to reduce the steam to the engines, the wheel they are turning is black, but when the chief engineer pushes him out of the way and continues to turn the wheel, it is gold.
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(at around 38 mins) When Rose is standing on the Titanic's stern during her attempt to commit suicide, her left hand changes from holding up her dress to just holding onto the railing.
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(at around 15 mins) At the beginning of the movie, when the elderly Rose is placing her photographs, she places them facing her bed. Later at the end of the movie (at around 3h), while she is asleep, it is clear the photographs are facing away from her bed.
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(at around 52 mins) After Ruth and the Countess get up to avoid Molly Brown, Ismay is talking to the Captain about ordering more speed, he folds the note in his hands twice.
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(at around 1h 12 mins) When the maid is tightening Rose's corset, she has the top quite tight. A moment later, when Rose's mother sends the maid for tea and starts on the corset herself, it is quite loose. The friction of the corset strings would not have allowed for much loosening.
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(at around 2h) When Rose sets the axe between the bars as she takes off her coat, the axe blade rests against two metal bars to prevent it from falling into the water. The next shot showing Rose from behind now shows the axe at a completely different angle with the blade positioned against only one metal bar, straight into the rising water.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) When the wheelhouse floods with Captain Smith in it, one of the windows breaks open twice.
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The length of Rose's fingernails changes throughout the movie.
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(at around 1h 6 mins) Jack's hair changes when he is dancing with Rose below decks.
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(at around 11 mins) The size and shape of the clay pot old Rose is making.
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(at around 1h 44 mins) 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.
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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.
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(at around 2h 10 mins) When Jack, Fabrizio, and Tommy break down the third-class gate and free the steerage passengers from taking the stairwell, Tommy is seen taking Rose by the arm to guide her over the fallen bench. In the next shot, he takes her arm again in the same place.
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The pistol Mr. Lovejoy has is a custom Colt M1911. Colt did not make a model for civilian usage until August 1912. In August 1912 there were only 100 civilian model M1911s produced for select members of the National Rifle Association. The ship sank in April 1912, four months before the civilian release of the M1911.
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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.
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(at around 12 mins) When Bobby tells Brock "Trust me, buddy, you'll want to take this call", Bobby's hand jumps from Brock's shoulder in-between shots.
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(at around 10 mins) When the portrait of Rose is first being cleaned off by fine mists of water by Brock's crew, it is shown to have straight, undamaged edges. However during the movie when Cal finds it in the safe with the accompanying love note in Rose's own handwriting, he crinkles both (at around 1h 35 mins).
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(at around 2h 25 mins) Paper money wad that First Officer Murdoch throws at Cal changes.
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(at around 1h 55 mins) When Lovejoy tells Jack "You know, I do believe this ship may sink", Lovejoy's hands on his gun change position in-between shots.
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(at around 1h 16 mins) Just before Jack "borrows/steals" the jacket on the 1st class deck we see a little boy playing with a spinning top. Between one camera angle and the next we see him throw the top down twice.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) When the smokestack is falling, the back of it rises from the water. In the scene directly after, it is rising from the water.
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(at around 1h 4 mins) When the dinner party is breaking up, Cal tosses a wrapped lighter to Jack. Cal then passes Jack's shoulder twice as he's throwing the lighter.
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(at around 43 mins) After Jack saves Rose from committing suicide by jumping from the ship's stern, the make-up under Rose's left eye appears and disappears, then reappears, as does the dress she is holding in her left hand.
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(at around 13 mins) When Lovett and Bodine are walking along deck talking about Rose, when Bodine says she worked as an actress, they walk past a wall with a no smoking sign on it. In the next shot, they are in the same place, but the wall is gone.
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As Captain Smith enters the wheelhouse for the last time, the water has risen almost halfway up the wooden wheel, and the topmost handle is at 12 o'clock. In the next shot, from across the room, the water is several inches lower, and the handles have changed position.
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(at around 50 mins) When Rose is on deck with Jack looking at his sketchings, the hair around her face alternates between perfect ringlets and wind-blown straight.
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When Jack is handcuffed to the pipes, the water levels seen passing the porthole are different in each shot from outside and inside.
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(at around 1h 6 mins) When Jack asks Rose to dance, Rose's hands change position from in her lap to on the table in-between shots.
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(at around 2h 35 mins) Titanic's funnels are brown with a black top. When the first funnel falls the color is correct, but when it hits the water the funnel becomes entirely brown. Later, as it sinks in the background, the top portion is once again black.
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(at around 1h 10 mins) As Rose and Cal begin their breakfast together on the promenade deck the morning after the third-class dance, Rose picks up her cup of coffee, then picks it up again when we see her from behind.
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(at around 31 mins) Ocean level on ship's bow is over 38', but after the dolphins appear in front of the Titanic, it's just over 36'
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Crew or equipment visible 

(at around 56 mins) When Jack approaches the door to the grand staircase for the first time, the camera is reflected in the glass.
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(at around 1h 26 mins) The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director James Cameron).
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(at around 1h 21 mins) When Rose is stepping onto the railing during the "I'm Flying" sequence, in the widescreen version of the film we can see to the very right that the railing is ending and there is a cable visible dangling over where the railing ends.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) Just after the collision, as Captain Smith walks to the starboard bridge-wing to look over the side to inspect the damage, the camera's shadow is visible in the bottom-left corner.
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(at around 13 mins) The skids of the camera helicopter are reflected in the window of the helicopter taking Rose and her granddaughter out to the Keldysh.
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(at around 47 mins) While Jack is telling Rose about his childhood, the camera moves from a shot of the ship to a shot of them walking along the deck. We can see shadows of heaps of equipment and people moving along the ship as the lights move.
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(at around 2h 35 mins) When the Grand Staircase's dome implodes, the exterior set can be seen through windows below, which should be submerged under water.
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When the Titanic is sinking and the lead characters run through the ship a camera crew can be seen through one of the windows.
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During the end scene of the movie when the camera returns to the Grand Staircase to pan all of the passengers aboard, the camera tilts up to reveal the glass of the staircase. The water tank release is clearly visible; it outlines one of the main window panes in the top of the frame. This was used to release the water when the set was previously flooded.
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(at around 47 mins) When Rose and Jack are on the first-class promenade, where she is thanking him from saving her from jumping from the stern, the camera's shadow is visible on the wall.
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At the very right in one of the shots during the scene where Jack and Rose are trapped behind the third class gates as the hallway is filling up with water.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) Reflected in a brass panel on the front of the Renault that Jack and Rose discover in the cargo hold.
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At one point the crew are reflected in a door,
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Errors in geography 

(at around 54 mins) When Jack and Rose are spitting over the deck before dinner, they are on the port side of the ship, and the sun is setting almost directly in front of them. The ship would have to be going northwest for this to happen instead of the southwest course it should be on.
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(at around 48 mins) While walking on the deck the day after Jack rescues Rose, just before she shows him her ring, if we look over the ship's rail, we can see waves coming into shore.
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(at around 21 mins) A strip of desert is visible between the dock and the Titanic when it's docked at Southampton.
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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.
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At 31:40 Jack is looking over the railing and sees dolphins following along with the ship. The dolphins pictured are Pacific White-Sided Dolphins instead of the Atlantic Bottle-Nosed Dolphins that inhabit the Atlantic Ocean.
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(at around 1h 21 mins) 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.
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Factual errors 

Third class passengers were not locked below decks.
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(at around 46 mins) The blue diamond "Le Coeur de la Mer" is stated as having 56 carats which would put its weight at 56 * 0.2 = 11.2 grams, which would be much too light for a diamond this size.
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(at around 1h 50 mins) Jack is 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 not have had portholes.
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Passengers were not allowed at the forecastle head, or bow. The sign that declared "Passengers Not Allowed Beyond This Point" was mounted on the leeward side of the forward breakwater (both port and starboard), and was missing in the film.
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(at around 1h 29 mins) Shots of the Titanic steaming at night and just prior to hitting the iceberg show a great deal of lights on the foredeck and from the cabin windows on the front of the ship facing the foredeck. In reality, Atlantic liners would not have had so much light showing forward of the bridge as the glare would have interfered with navigation at night.
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(at around 27 mins) The Titanic's middle propeller was powered by a Parsons steam turbine, which ran off expelled steam from the two main reciprocating engines. This meant that the turbine could only run when a full head of steam had been generated. It would not and could not have been used for maneuvering in port. Hence, the middle propeller would have been stationary when starting away from the dock.
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Margret Brown was actually called Maggie by her friends. She was given the name "Unsinkable Molly Brown" later due to her efforts. She did not enter a lifeboat for quite some time, but helped others onto lifeboats. She also handled an oar to help row and did attempt to get the boat to go back for more people. Sources vary as to whether they did or did not go back and whether they did or did not find anyone else alive.
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The crew of lifeboat #14 didn't have flashlights to use when looking for survivors in the water. James Cameron knew this when making the film, but used the flashlights to provide lighting anyway.
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(at around 23 mins) When Rose boards the Titanic, the entrance vestibule is shown with a pair of wooden doors. When James Cameron visited the wreck two years after filming ended, he discovered that the doors were in fact inaccurately portrayed in the film.
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(at around 1h 9 mins) In the Third Class Common Room, 17 year-old Rose demonstrates her ballet skills, standing on point. She says she hadn't done it in a long time. Young ballet dancers are not allowed to go "en pointe" until after adolescence, when their feet have fully formed. Therefore, she could not - or should not have done it - previously as it might have injured her feet.
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(at around 27 mins) As the ship begins its departure at the beginning of the film, we see a shot of its propellers kicking up sand just a few inches from the bottom of the port waters. The ship weighed of 50,000 tons and had a draft of 34'. There is no way it could sit that close to the ocean bottom and be able to go anywhere.
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(at around 1h 16 mins) 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.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When the ship hits the iceberg, water is seen entering the ship's garage on E Deck. E Deck was not immediately flooded, as it was two decks above the point of collision.
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(at around 2h 35 mins) Shortly before Titanic's break-up, we see Charles Lightoller (Jonny Phillips) clinging to an overturned lifeboat. Charles Herbert Lightoller actually went into the water just after the fall of Murdoch. He was either attempting to hide the suicide or a rescue. The suction of the ship pulled him down and Lightoller was underwater at the time of the breakup. He was freed when a boiler exploded and the warm air freed him from the suction, thus saving his life. He surfaced just as Titanic's stern was sinking. Lightoller did indeed believe the ship had sunk intact. Lightoller died in December of 1952; thirty-three years before the Titanic wreck was located (1985).
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Despite near freezing air temperature and 28 F degree water temperature, the passengers on board the Titanic are not affected by the cold of either the freezing air or water until they are off the boat and in the water. When the ship is flooded with icy water Jack and Rose make their way through the water without freezing. We see vapor breath from passengers in the water, but not from those on deck. Hypothermia apparently only affects people once they leave the Titanic, not when the cold sea water is in the Titanic.
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(at around 1h 45 mins) In the first shot of the lifeboats lowering during the sinking, one of the boats has "S.S. TITANIC" painted on its bow. Although the ship was designated as "R.M.S. TITANIC" (for Royal Mail Steamship or Steamer) the lifeboats were indeed marked as "S.S. TITANIC", and several plaques taken from the lifeboats after the disaster have been saved as souvenirs.
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(at around 27 mins) When Titanic leaves from Southampton, we can see smaller ships are sailing around Titanic. This is impossible because the waves that Titanic causes would have sunken these ships.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When the Titanic hits the iceberg, Thomas Andrews is shown to be in his room going over blueprints and clearly notices that something has happened. Although it is true that Andrews was in his room working on improvements for the ship when the collision occurred, he did not actually feel it himself; the crew actually summoned him.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) There was no door between boiler room six and the cargo area (and no access to anyone but authorized crew). If there had been a door, it would have entered through the third cargo area aft, not the one where the Renault was stored.
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Colonel Archibald Gracie (played by Bernard Fox) speaks with a British accent, however in real life Gracie was an American born in Alabama.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) The orchestra plays the American music to "Nearer My God to Thee". However, most Titanic experts believe the last song the orchestra played was "Songe D'Autumne", or better known as "Autumn".
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(at around 27 mins) When Titanic starts up her engines in Southampton, all the props start simultaneously. The steam has to cycle through the two reciprocating engines and the leftover steam is vented into the low-pressure turbine which powers the center prop. There would have been a time delay between the outer and center props. But the center prop wouldn't have been used in disembarking from port anyway; the center prop was only to be used out in the open sea to augment speed. Any excess steam would have been diverted to the condensers at this time.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) When Rose and Jack are escaping the flooded lower decks, the water is clean and clear. Ocean water is dark and murky, not transparent.
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(at around 19 mins) When old Rose is about to start her story, she looks at videotape of the fireplace on the monitor. In the shot is "Snoop Dog", the submersible. "Duncan", the second submersible, was exploring another part of the wreck and wouldn't have been able to take that shot. It's actually a shot from the movie, having been used just before the safe's discovery.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When they deploy the doors to seal the compartments, doors actually do not gradually lower. The doors are very heavy and last 1/2 meter they free fall to slam insuring they close unlike the scenes where people barely get through.
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(at around 1h 55 mins) Rose runs into Andrews, who gives her directions on how to reach Jack. The directions he gives her do not correspond to the real deck plan on RMS Titanic; it would have led her to nowhere other than the Master-at-Arms' office.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) When the band starts playing "Nearer My God To Thee" at the ship's final moment, they are playing the American version "Bethany". Considering the Titanic was a British vessel containing mostly British crew, it is extremely unlikely the band would know or play an Americanized tune. Instead, they would have likely used the British version "Horbury".
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(at around 1h 45 mins) Professional radio operators hold the key with their thumbs and first two fingers, rather than tapping on it as shown. Tapping would have produced a bad "fist" (the Morse code equivalent of a harsh voice).
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(at around 2h 35 mins) When the water is shown covering the clock above the Grand Staircase it is level with the 9-and-3 positions. With the angle of the ship's sinking, it would have been at either 1-and-7 or 2-and-8.
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(at around 26 mins) 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.
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(at around 1h 55 mins) When Rose and the steward are in the lift going down, the shadows on Rose's face are going in the wrong direction.
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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.
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The coat worn by Captain Smith had plain anchor buttons; the actual tunics had "White Star Line" buttons.
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Almost lost in the drama of the sinking is the fact that Rose's maid Trudy unfortunately does not survive the sinking. This is brought up in the narration that Titanic historians Ken Marshall and Don Lynch do for the film's DVD release. It's easy to miss Trudy's demise, as she doesn't receive much screen time and thus is not that recognizable, but Trudy is the woman seen during the sinking hanging on to a man who apparently says, " Hold on Miss. Trudy," before unfortunately losing his grip causing her to slide down the enclosed promenade deck on the starboard side of the ship and enter the icy debris filled water. This, however, contradicts historical record. Of all woman who traveled in First Class, including servants, only four woman and one child perished. Bess Allison and her two year old daughter Lorraine along with Edith Evans, Ida Strauss and Ann Isham were the only First Class females who did not survive the sinking. Aside from that every other woman in First Class, including all the female servants, survived. (But Trudy was never a real person, so her fate either way wouldn't change anything)
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(at around 21 mins) The Titanic is shown to be at Southampton docks in brilliant sunshine. Yet, photographs from the actual event seem to show the sky overcast.
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(at around 36 mins) Before Rose attempts suicide, she runs along the A Deck promenade towards the stern. She is then shown to be running out from the second class entrance (B Deck) to the poop-deck. In real life it would've been impossible for her to do this unless she jumped over the railing.
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(at around 1h 19 mins) Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon mentions that she designed a trousseau for the Duchess of Marlborough's youngest daughter. In 1912, the Duchess of Marlborough would have been the former Consuelo Vanderbilt. She and the Duke of Marlborough had 2 sons, but no daughters.
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Cal had Jack evicted from the church service since he was a third class passenger. In reality, church services aboard the ship were open to all regardless of class.
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When Jack is drawing Rose, one camera angle looking at her has the corner of the drawing pad barely covering her pubic area. But it isn't showing any pubic hair. In those days, women didn't trim or shave their pubic hair, which means Rose would have had a prominent bush that would have been seen in that shot.
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The stern section, when visible during the Titanic's launch, is missing a porthole in the white section near the railing.
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Despite Rose and Jack being in freezing water constantly between Titanic hitting the iceberg and its final shots of sinking, the two don't suffer from hypothermia or other reactions that can be caused by freezing water.
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(at around 23 mins) At the beginning of the movie, when Jack is playing poker with Fabrizio and two others, Fabrizio turns over his hand and says he has nothing ("niente"). However, about 45 seconds earlier, his cards can be seen (when he says "Jack, you are pazzo. You bet everything we have"). He has two sixes in his hand, which would give him a pair.
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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.
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(at around 2h 45 mins) The lovers cling to the deck rails as the final few feet of the ship plunge into the icy depths then bob up seconds later. In reality the suction of the ship would have dragged them down.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) As Cal pursues Jack and Rose through the sinking ship, he fires eight shots at them. His pistol, the brand new model 1911 semi-automatic, only holds seven rounds.
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It was very rare for a woman with long hair to wear her hair out long like Rose did in 1912. All photos of women passengers show them with either short or tied up hair.
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It was recorded that on the night of sinking, the air temp was 28 degrees Fahrenheit(sea water freezes at less than fresh water-32F). Air temp would not be much higher than the water temp and it takes about low 40's F to see your breath when breathing. 1 - Jack and rose should have been freezing as they were in the water where Jack was cuffed, wading in the water in the ship, etc. 2 - many times, condensing breath is missing throughout the movie.
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In many scenes, the water in the corridors\rooms was level and not showing the boat's tilt with the bow(front) being lower.
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When the ship is first shown under power after leaving Southampton it has all four funnels emitting smoke. The last funnel was just used for ventilation and never emitted smoke.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When the ship passes the iceberg after hitting it, passengers are looking at the iceberg. We can see in the back the rear davit is out. At this point, the only davits out were the front ones.
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(at around 1h 15 mins) One of the crew by the Chapel tells Jack he is not allowed. In actuality, steerage and second class passengers were welcome to attend, and generally sat in the back or stood up in back.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) While searching for Jack in the flooded areas below decks Rose has to immerse herself on water which was 2 degrees centigrade yet she only let out the odd small sigh.
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(at around 2h 15 mins) 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.
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(at around 2h 35 mins) When one of the funnels falls during the sinking the waves it created should had capsized Cal's boat due to the force of the water but this does not happen.
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(at around 1h 14 mins) During the Sunday service scene Rose is seen without wearing a hat. It was only men that were required to remove their hats. Women were required to wear them in this time period. Rose also has her hair down which again is incorrect as women in upper class had to wear their hair short or in a bun. Rose again has her hair down when she learns from Thomas Andrews the ship will sink. Again Rose having her hair down would not be allowed in this time period.
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(at around 2h 50 mins) The torches used by the ship's butlers when searching for Rose hadn't been invented at that period of 1912.
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Just before Titanic breaks in half the lights flicker before going out after the power finally goes out. This is impossible as the ship would go into total darkness immediately after loss of power.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) When the boat is sinking and Jack and Rose are running down one hallway, each door bursts right after they run past them. You can tell it is fake because room doors were not made to be waterproof and no water is leaking into the hallway under/around the doors; also, for doors to break and release that much water, the rooms would need to be full of water and released - which they were as shown in how they actually filmed the scene.
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(at around 1h 55 mins) When Jack cries out for help while handcuffed to a pipe in the Master at Arms office, that part of Titanic is already submerged underwater. The interior of that part of the ship should already be flooded up to the ceiling.
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When Jack tries to see Rose a man stops him and tries to pay him.

You can see the bill he pulls out is either a Series of 1914 or Series of 1918 Large Currency Bill.

Those were not printed until 1913.
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In multiple scenes when the propellers are shown, you see the central propeller with 4 blades. Titanic only had a 3 blade center propeller, while Olympic and Britannic had the 4 bladed center propeller.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) Jack and Rose manage to get into the boiler rooms and cargo hold. There was no way that would be allowed in real life as it is strictly forbidden and dangerous as a stoker pointed out.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) Rose manages to cut Jack free from the pipe with an ax. However considering the handcuffs are a few inches wide, Rose really should have even if unintentional had wounded Jack in the hands or worse cut them off.
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The victims including Fabrizio during the sinking seem able to swim in the water with ease but considering the water was below freezing the passengers and crew in the water should had been struggling to swim in cold conditions.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) The orchestra plays "Nearer My God to Thee" as their final number. In "A Night to Remember" the orchestra also plays "Nearer My God to Thee" with a different melody.
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Only three fireworks are seen being launched during the sinking. In real life more fireworks were launched in a fruitless attempt to contact other ships including the Californian which was allegedly several miles away. However it is possible more were fired while Jack and Rose were trying to find a way to the boat deck.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs 

Some artifacts recovered from the Titanic's wreckage included a number made of paper, which were saved because of their storage in leather bags or such; it is therefore possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.
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(at around 36 mins) When Rose is considering jumping off the ship toward 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.
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(at around 1h 25 mins) Although her fingers partially obscure it, the coin that Rose pays 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 to the right, not the left.
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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 apart before sinking, one would imagine that there would be no room for dispute if the lights had stayed on until the ship broke.
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When the ship is bearing down on the iceberg, the officer orders the helmsman to put the helm hard to starboard and later hard to port. In each case the helmsman appears to do exactly the opposite. However, prior to the advent and mass popularity of the automobile, a ship's wheel was rigged such that to turn the ship left (port), the wheel was turned clockwise (or as we would consider it, to the right). It was only after a generation of drivers had grown up driving cars that the shipping industry began rigging their wheels to conform.
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(at around 53 mins) There were a number of roller coasters in Santa Monica as early as 1904; in any case, Jack tends to embellish his stories to make his point.
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(at around 58 mins) When Rose and Jack meet up before the first-class dinner, Jack kisses Rose's hand and says, "I saw that on a nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it." He is referring not to the TV company (created in 1977 under the name Pinwheel) but to a type of five-cent movie common in that era.
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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 flyover shots of the ship, it is possible to see that most of the top of the fourth smokestack is sealed.
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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 her meals in the a-la-carte restaurant on B Deck.
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(at around 29 mins) 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.
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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. Furthermore, 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.
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(at around 1h 26 mins) When Jack sketches Rose naked, she has shaved underarms, but fashion didn't even start to introduce this trend until 1915. Women at the time of the Titanic sinking would have had hairy armpits, as the woman in Jack's sketchbook did.
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(at around 28 mins) Jack and Fabrizio's third-class cabin correctly contains two sets of bunk beds, or four berths.
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(at around 2 mins) When Brock is filming from the inside of the submarine, he's supposed to be well underwater, by the Titanic's wreckage. The light outside the window is coming from the submersible's outside lights.
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(at around 8 mins) At the beginning of the movie it is not logically revealed how Brock's crew was able to recover the Cal's safe. The safe was found in a remote and highly inaccessible area of the ship by an underwater robot which could hardly lift all the wood which covered the safe. It is possible that the wooden door was much lighter than it appeared.
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The painting by Norman Wilkinson in the first-class smoking room is actually an exact reproduction of "Plymouth Harbour," which went down with 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.
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(at around 28 mins) The paintings shown in Rose's cabin, apparently by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Edgar Degas, have been the subject of much criticism, supposedly because these paintings are originals that never traveled on Titanic, or because they were too large to fit aboard the ship. In truth, the paintings are just imitations of each artists' style. The painting by Picasso is not the famed "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", but merely a painting in the same style.
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(at around 2h 15 mins) When Murdoch finishes loading one of the lifeboats he says "Ready on the left", and "lower away" but doesn't say "Ready on the right". When lowering a lifeboat the officer would say "Ready on the left", "Ready on the right", and finally "Lower away". However, just after he calls "Ready on the left", he turns and sees Bruce Ismay in the lifeboat. Obviously stunned, he pauses before resigning himself to continue, and simply calls "Take them down".
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(at around 1h 14 mins) "Eternal Father, Strong To Save" is sung during the worship service. While Robert Nelson Spencer wrote two verses in 1937, the lines sung in the film were quoted in a book published in 1921 and were probably written much earlier.
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(at around 38 mins) It is often claimed that there is a tattoo visible on Rose's arm when she attempts suicide. It is actually a moon-shaped black dot - some embellishment that has come loose from her robe, clearly visible in closer shots.
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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.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) In the film, we see Titanic's stern rise to around 45 degrees and splitting in two from the top down with the boat deck ripping apart. However, recent forensic studies by maritime experts at the site of the wreck have all concluded that the hull began to break at a much lower angle of around 23 degrees. However, the ship broke in the middle and not between 3rd and 4th funnel, making the depicted elevation of the rear part of the ship essentially correct. In the film, you can hear the bending movement of the sinking ship; this is metal creaking and beginning to give way. The hull girders (which support the ship's hull) would never have been strong enough to hold half the ship in a vertical angle. However, the film was made well before the most recent forensic studies using the best available information at the time.
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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 Heart of the Ocean's owner diamond might well have wanted to record it for posterity, cost no object, in all its colorful glory.
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(at around 2h 45 mins) Many present day documentaries show by a camera looking down on Rose lying on the left side of the door there more than enough room to have Jack lie on the right side of the door. However, it was established that the combined weight of the two was too much for the door to support.
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Titanic's orchestra did not play in the first-class dining saloon during meal services. However, this is a fictional movie and they did because James Cameron says they did.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) 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 have allow him to keep sliding.
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Rose has blue eyes in present day scenes but green in the sinking scenes . This was apparently due to lighting abnormalities.
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Plot holes 

It would be hard to believe that the "Heart of the Ocean" necklace that was in Cal's coat pocket would have survived the flood waters inside the ship, as well as the surge when the ship went down.
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(at around 56 mins) Molly Brown loans Jack her son's tuxedo so he can have dinner with the first-class crowd. While she did have a son (who would have been 25 at the time), he wasn't a passenger on the Titanic, so it's unclear why she'd have any of his clothing with her on the ship.
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Whilst demonstrating how to spit, Jack projects a glob of saliva through the air. During those same few seconds, Rose shuts her eyes. Yet when Jack asks, "You see the range on that thing?", Rose claims she did.
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Revealing mistakes 

(at around 10 mins) Rose's drawing that's found and cleaned with great care and was in the safe is a noticeably different version than the version Jack sketched (at around 1h 28 mins). Notice how the face, lips, eyes, hands, and overall picture is much different from Jack's sketch.
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Near the end of the movie, when the Titanic is nearly vertical, a man, who is falling off the ship, hits one of the capstans and it bends, showing that it is clearly made of rubber. It is mentioned in the documentary the filming set had a lot of foam props for safety.
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(at around 1h 30 mins) After Jack and Rose take a shortcut through the engine room to escape Lovejoy, there is no soot on Rose's pale blue gown.
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(at around 31 mins) During the ship's flyover shot, if we look closely, we see a lady in a burgundy coat walking, but her feet aren't touching the ground, she is floating.
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(at around 39 mins) When Jack throws his cigarette in the water, it disappears before it reaches the end of the screen.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) 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 in respect to the sinking ship.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) When Jack is handcuffed to the pipe and Rose uses the axe to free him, one can see, especially in slow motion, that the axe hits the back of Jack's hand, not the handcuffs.
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(at around 22 mins) When Cal arrives and gets out of his car, he looks ahead in amazement. Except Titanic is visible behind him though the car's door, and from this angle we can see that the entire rear of the ship is just scaffolding.
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Every scene on deck seems to have been shot in temperatures mire in keeping with a caribbean cruise than the Arctic as Rose spent the whole time in a slip dress without any sign of frosted breath.
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(at around 21 mins) 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.
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(at around 57 mins) When Jack meets Rose at the Grand Staircase and is meeting the other first class passengers, a blue screen is visible in the windows behind him.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) When Cal pursues Rose and Jack into the flooding first class dining room, all the windows are burnt out with bright white light. These are outside windows and it is the middle of the night.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) 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.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) During the iceberg collision when the second watertight door closes, the two stokers seen at the door are reflected against a large mirror used to make the boiler rooms extend.
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(at around 1h 9 mins) When Rose demonstrates her ballet skills during the party in the third-class general room, the aspect ratio changes slightly from shot to shot. Small black bars appear and reappear on the sides of the screen.
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In the black-and-white shots of the Titanic in port on departure day, there is a shot of a blonde woman in a straw hat leaning over a railing to wave enthusiastically at the dock (she waves towards the Titanic's port side). However, in the color flashback scene of sailing day, this same woman is waving towards the starboard side of the ship (out to sea). The color shot was not reversed during editing.
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(at around 2h 50 mins) As the the lifeboat officers scan the water with their electric torches, looking for survivors, the pools of light cast onto 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.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) In the last underwater shot during the collision with the iceberg, an obviously fake hull is visible. The hull is sharply cut, and there is some object behind it.
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(at around 1h 45 mins) When the radio operator sends out the "CQD" distress message, the pattern of dots and dashes he makes with the key is not intelligible Morse code.
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(at around 33 mins) As the camera pulls back from Jack's "king of the world" shot and performs a flyover of the ship, the officer who comes out to report the ship's speed to Captain Smith walks very uncannily with a very deliberate and exceptionally large gait. This is because, instead of using a live aerial camera to capture the footage, James Cameron chose to use 3D motion capture footage of individual characters performing actions and added them in post production. During the motion capture shoot, the actor playing the officer would have been shot walking without a particular goal or destination in mind.
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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.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) During the scene of the ship rising vertically 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.
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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.
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There is dirt on the lens (right side of screen) during the dining room scene angle on Jack.
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(at around 38 mins) Rose's hair changes shades throughout the scene where she attempts suicide, partially due to the lighting, but also due to the changes from her stunt double.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) When Mr. Andrews is leaning against the fireplace, changing the clock's minute hand when the ship is tilting, the contents in the two glass on the mantle are perfectly still when they should be moving around.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) Just after the ship's stern tilts vertically before the final plunge, in a shot of Jack, Rose, and others on the stern, we can plainly see the superimposed division between the actors and ship, and the background. This has been corrected in subsequent video releases.
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(at around 27 mins) 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-imaged and reversed.
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(at around 24 mins) 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 are 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.
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(at around 1h 27 mins) When Jack is drawing the portrait of Rose, she says "I believe you are blushing, Mr. Big Artiste", and we can clearly see nothing on the paper.
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In several instances, when people are standing on the rail, they appear to be crudely "pasted" in front of the sky.
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Despite hitting an iceberg the interior of Titanic does not appear to be listing until Thomas Andrews is first seen in the smoking room.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) When the camera sweeps over the entire ship sinking, the yellow and white paint on the Titanic's Hull is seen to cut off at the ship's stern where the scaffolding begins.
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When Jack is getting ready to escort Rose to dinner, he kisses her hand. She is wearing white gloves However the sound the kiss makes is that of someone's lips kissing a hand without gloves on.
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(at around 21 mins) During the flyover scene of the ship not only is the crew's skylight on the wrong side, but if you pay attention, the entire ship is flipped. For example you can see the entrance to the gymnasium on the port side (It should be starboard) and also the stairs leading up to the docking bridge is on the port side.
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City lights are visible at one point when Jack and Rose are out on the deck as the ship is sinking.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) When Rose and Jack (among others) are standing on the ship as it is sinking and they are about to sink 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.
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(at around 2h 10 mins) As passengers were climbing into lifeboats and the ship's officer was loading the Webley pistol, the first round inserted into the cylinder clearly had a firing pin indentation in the primer. This is standard protocol when using dummy rounds as props.
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(at around 2h 40 mins) When the ship splits in half, the wires are visible that were used to pull them in.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) When the doors burst open and a flood of water engulfs the father and son in the E-Deck corridor, the railings to the left and right of the screen appear rubbery and bounce when the father's suitcase and the water come in contact with it.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When the Iceberg collides with the ship, inside boiler room #6 you can clearly see openings for the water to rush in, a fireman running from the hull expecting it to flood, and water clearly on the floor of the boiler room. Not only that but when Frederick Barrett is leading men out of the boiler room, the water level is inconsistent with how much water would have flooded the room at that point.
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(at around 2h 30 mins) Repeat Footage: As the band is playing "Nearer My God To Thee" just after Cal hands the child to someone else in the lifeboat, there is a shot facing the flooding deck with passengers scattered around. The same shot is shown after the band finish playing, straight after we last see Captain Smith when the water breaks through the windows leaving him to drown.
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In one scene as Jack and Rose take a stroll on the deck in mid Atlantic a small hill can be seen over his shoulder.
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(at around 2h 25 mins) The scene in which Benjamin Guggenheim declares he intends to go down as a gentleman is mirrored. The cherub figurine on the Grand Staircase is holding the light to its right side. In the rest of the film, it's correctly holding the light to its left side.
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(at around 1h 21 mins) In the shot where Rose "flies," Jack and Rose's faces are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.
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Spoilers

The goof items below may give away important plot points.

Character error 

(at around 2h 25 mins) Officer William Murdoch is portrayed as a weak character who after shooting agitated passengers turns the gun on himself. In reality he died a hero giving up his own life jacket and eventually drowning.
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Continuity 

First Officer William Murdoch is seen trying to free one of the collapsible lifeboats after he supposedly shot himself.
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(at around 2h 55 mins) After Rose wakes in the water, ice is seen on Jack's upper lip; in the side angle it's not there.
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(at around 2h 45 mins) After the sinking, Jack and Rose are in the water and try to climb on a large plank of wood. When it rolls over and we see the sky again, all the stars are gone. The stars come and go like this continuously between shots for a while after this.
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The water is shown to be filling above the Grand Staircase clock twice: once when the water is heading toward the ceiling when Mr. Astor is coming up the stairs, and again after the first funnel crushes and kills Fabrizio.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs 

(at around 2h 55 mins) While the whistle Rose steals from the dead officer is metal, cold, and wet, the man had only just died which would presumably leave him warm enough to prevent the whistle from freezing. And once Rose starts blowing it, what's left of her body heat would warm it in fairly short time (unlike, say, a fencepost, which takes too long to warm). Therefore, it's reasonable that it wouldn't have frozen to her mouth either.
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(at around 2h 25 mins) Just before he shoots himself, Murdoch gives a military salute with his palm facing down. Many believe that the Titanic, being an English ship with English crew, would have its officers salute the British way with their palms facing out. But only the British Army and Air Force salute this way. The British Royal Navy salutes "in the American manner" with palm facing down, widely attributed to the fact that historically sailors would have very dirty hands thus unfit to display in polite company let alone the Queen.
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(at around 3h) Despite Rose being on the Carpathia with her mother, Ruth, and Cal, the two villains some how fail to spot her. This should be impossible as Carpathia was much smaller than Titanic and had only 705 survivors on-board. Plus the ship did not reach New York until 18 April 1912 giving them enough time to search the whole length of the ship to find her. Rose had her head exposed when the ship arrived at New York making it more easier for her to be found and either Ruth or Cal should have at least seen her when they left the ship. Obviously Rose was very careful to conceal herself.
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Plot holes 

(at around 2h 40 mins) When Titanic's rear half puts vertical previous to the sinking (to disappear vertically into the water), Jack and Rose are grabbed to the outer side of the stern's railing, with Jack advising Rose take a long breath seconds before Titanic sinks for after the sinking to come loose from the railing and swim to arrive the surface and not die asphyxiated. Considering the size and weight of the Titanic as its dimensions (about 883 feet or 270 meters length by 93 feet or 29 meters beam and a weight of 46,330 tons), even split in half, the sinking of the ship's rear half would must be generated so much suction power in the water to drag them inevitably to the bottom, killing them underwater by drowning.
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Revealing mistakes 

(at around 2h 50 mins) When Rose is floating on the wooden plank 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 the sky is artificial and the image has been mirrored.
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(at around 2h 55 mins) When Rose "lets Jack go" into the water, just before his eyes slip underwater, we can see his eye flinch.
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