CURRENT CHRISTINA PROGRAM
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic on April 12th 2012, I am rebroadcasting a vintage show I produced early in the history of my show, CHRISTINA ( 2002 ). I interviewed Tim Gagne, then a publicist at the Maritime Aquarium's about the museum's exhibition,Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition produced by RMS Titanic's, Inc. The focus of the exhibit was the salvaged artifacts from the Titanic's wreckage. I filmed some of the wonderful amazing artifacts that were part of the exhibit, like the champagne bottle that still contained champagne after nearly a century of life under the sea. I have always been fascinated by the Titanic story and found this exhibit and it's contents extraordinary and wanted to reshow them on the 100th Anniversary. The show airs on Tuesday April 3rd at 9:00pm and Thursday April 5th at 5:30pm. It will play at the above days and times through out April. Below are photos of some of the Titanic Artifacts.
From the New York Times
The
RMS Titanic, is the company with exclusive rights to the roughly 5,500 artifacts salvaged by eight expeditions to the wreck of the Titanic. The collection has been divided into temporary mini-museums set up across the country; eight will be in place by April, including one in Orlando, Fla., where on Saturday nights, one can, for $65, partake in a luxurious dinner party that recreates the one that George Widener, a wealthy Titanic passenger, gave for the Titanic’s captain just before the tragedy.
Thousands of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic’s watery tomb in the
North Atlantic will be sold in a winner-take-all auction scheduled for April, the centennial of the luxury liner’s sinking, The Associated Press reported.
The estimated value of the 5,500 pieces of fine china, still-fragrant perfume bottles, ship fittings and more recovered by RMS Titanic Inc., a court-appointed salvaging company, is $189 million. The auction is scheduled for April 1 at Guernsey’s, the
New York auction house
RMS Titanic owns the rights to discoveries and information that emanate from the salvaged objects for research, but not the artifacts or the wreck itself. Judge Smith ruled that RMS Titanic must make the artifacts available “to present and future generations for public display and exhibition, historical review, scientific and scholarly research, and educational purposes.”
Premier Exhibitions, RMS Titanic’s parent company, has organized an exhibition of the items, including a bowler hat, half-filled
Champagne bottles and pieces of the grand staircase, that has been touring around the world.
The Titanic, celebrated as unsinkable, hit an iceberg on its first voyage and sank on April 15, 1912, 400 miles off the coast of
Newfoundland; more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board died.
Interesting youtubes to see more on Titanic's legendary history:
Titanic Footage and Survivor Interviews
Original Newsreel from 1912
From documentary by IMAX
Some of the artifacts are being auctioned off see link on youtube:
The original exhibit in 2002 also chronicled the stories of the passengers aboard the ship, those who survived and those who perished. It also had footage of interviews with aged survivors who recollect
the night to be remembered.
A wonderful article about the lure of Titanic's story.
