![]() I scrolled down the Timeline choices and clicked on TheĬalifornian Officers Watch Rocket, only to be met by a group photo of the ship's captain and her officers (unidentified) and a series of rough stop- action views of the Titanic as she might have looked from the steamer I found no index toĪnother letdown came when I returned to the Timeline and jumped forward to disk two (Tragedy Strikes), eager to see some of the promised missing scenes from the movie. And try as I might, I couldn't get below D deck, which meant I never made it down to see the huge reciprocating engines or the giant boilers - assuming they are among the sites included. But if you try to walk through the doors that lead into the pantry, you are out of Even better is to stand in the grand first-classĭining saloon and, by dragging the cursor across the image, rotate your view 360 degrees (a feature that is available at all tour sites). Sure, it's neat to visit one of the D-deck parlor suites, with their gorgeous bouquets of fresh-cut flowers, and examine the details of the paneling around the fireplace. Nothing on the CD-ROM itself explains how to move easily from place to place or from deck toĭeck, and the instruction booklet included in the package is equally unhelpful. It promises 64 separate sites on the ship, but who knows how you get to them all. In the Browser for disk one you will also encounter the "virtual tour"Īlas, the virtual tour is a real disappointment. The name of every person lost, builders' plans for every deck and biographies of many passengers and crew members, both prominent and obscure. It includes no video clips but many images and much information: a complete passenger and crew list, for example, with an X beside The Browser functions like a Titanic archive, a modest archive but fascinating nonetheless. Of disk three (The Legend Comes to Light), you would get a nice visual and verbal summary of the history of the ship the story of the maiden voyage, the shipwreck and the rescue, and what has happened since, notably theĭiscovery of the wreck in 1985 and the issues surrounding the salvaging of thousands of artifacts. (I hope the audio hiccups that blanked out many pieces of the narration were unique to my copy.) If you simply played the Timeline from the beginning of disk one (Ship of Dreams) to the end The Timeline employs archival photographs, documents and brief clips from the movie, accompanied by narration, to recount a series of short When you enter Titanic Explorer, you have two options: the Timeline and the Browser. To keep his film under four hours, Cameron had to excise great chunks of celluloid, including the tale of the Californian, a nearby ship that probably saw the Titanic's distress rockets but did not come to her rescue.Īs for the promise of a visual tour, anyone who has dreamed about sailing on the famous liner has imagined exploring her from stem to stern.
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