Posted by Don Morlan on June 02, 1998 at 19:06:46 in inet-gw.data-io.com:
In Reply to: Re: Professional color photo of lighted Titanic from Ulster Folk Museum... posted by Stephen Daniels on May 30, 1998 at 11:33:55:
: : http://www.nidex.com/uftm/titanic/
: : Scrolling down a screen or two will show you what is a noble ambition for us all. Adding the lighting splashed up on the peach funnels would be perfection!!!
: : -Don
: ****Hi
: Were the four stacks lit up as depicted in the recent film, or was this just a bit of artistic licence on J. Cameron's part?
*** as near as I could tell from the American Cinematographer Titanic issue, they moved the "keylight to the rear of the funnel" for artistic license, which is a somewhat ambiguous statement. It doesn't tell us much. What is interesting is that in terms of the entire ship, they used 3 times as many lighting "practicals" as they did on the 1912 ship. Also, the American Cinematographer issue devoted to the Titanic shows a cute little homemade drawing of how they arrange the four "uplights" that shine on the funnels.
They only show the first two funnels on the diagram, so we will have to see for ourselves how the third and fourth funnels were treated, but the first and second funnels in the movie had a total of four lights on each funnel. They encircle each funnel completely at the base of each funnel and are arranged to encircle the funnel at equidistant intervals.
For the first funnel, the four lights are drawn as follows from a top view diagram. With a circle representing the top view of the first funnel, the first uplight is directly in front of the first funnel on the centerline. Thre second and third uplights come from the port and starboard side edges of this first funnel. The fourth uplight is directly in back of the first funnel on the centerline as well.
The second funnel is the same but has the array of four uplights (also placed equidistant around the funnel) shifted 45 degrees off axis to appear from a top view as North Northwest, North Northeast, South Southeat, and South Southwest. Ahhh! a picture is worth a thousand words I might say. We are really nailing this model aren't we?