Titanic Bloopers

This page is factual but just for fun. I did not come up with this list! I'm not THAT observant. I haven't even caught all of these mistakes even using this list...lol. This is not meant as
criticism because, after all, I worship this
movie and James Cameron. So enjoy...


1) There is crew or equipment reflected in Rose's tv.

2) Jack wins his ticket by beating 2 pair with a full house. However, when we first see Jack's hand, he has nothing that could be made in to a full house, and only draws one card.

3) A strip of desert is visible between the dock and the Titanic when docked at Southampton.

4) 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.

5) The draft markings on the Titanic's bow when Jack looks at the dolphins later change size and position.

6) Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, which wasn't created until five years after the Titanic sank.

7) Jack claims to have visited the Santa Monica Pier, which did not begin construction until 1916.

8) The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not developed until 1946.

9) Margaret Brown was not referred to as "Molly" until after her death. (After the sinking the suvivors were mobbed bye newspaper reporters. She was asked "How did YOU survive?" and her response was a simple "How could i not? I am the unsinkable molly brown". I have seen a copy of the exact paper, my Grandfather has it in his saftey deposit box. It is an origional from the time. Thank you Tassilhoff!!)

10) In the scene where Jack is teaching Rose to spit, there is no spit on his chin as he starts to turn around to face the ladies, but by the time he has completed his turn he has some on his chin.

11) The painting over the fireplace in the Titanic's first class smoking lounge in the film depicts New York Harbor, which was actually the painting on the Titanic's sister ship, "Olympic". The painter, Norman Wilkinson, had provided a scene of Plymouth Harbor for Titanic, but no pictures of this work survived.

12) A closeup of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing contact lenses.

13) The main characters have lunch in the Palm Court/Verandah on A Deck. These were not used for dining, although passengers could order tea or a small snack.

14) Cal orders lamb with mint sauce for himself and Rose. Lamb was only available for dinner on the ship, while mutton was reserved for lunch. The lamb was prepared in the D-Deck galley and would not have been served in the Palm Court.

15) While Jack and Rose are walking on the promenade the day after he rescues her, a small hill with a building on it is visible over Jack's shoulder and above the ship.

16) The button on the left side of Jack's borrowed jacket is a "Kingsdrew" button, first made in 1922.

17) Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are still standing apart.

18) There is crew or equipment reflected in the glass door opened for Jack as he enters the dining room.

19) The worship services held at 10:30 on Sunday April 14th, 1912, in the First Class Dining Room were open to all passengers of the ship.

20) "Almighty Father Strong To Save" is sung during the worship service; the two verses used in the film were written by Robert Nelson Spencer in 1937.

21) During the scene 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 the 14th, the ship would be steaming somewhere between WSW and SW; the lighting in the movie would indicate that the sun is between SSE and SE, when it actually would have been between W and WNW.

22) In the same shot, the faces of Jack and Rose are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.

23) The length of Rose's fingernails throughout the movie.

24) The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director James Cameron.)

25) Workers in the Titanic's engine room had to wear thick protective clothing to shield them from the heat generated by the engines.

26) 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.

27) There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area (and no access to any but authorized crew). If there had been a door, it would have entered the third cargo area aft, not the one where the Renault was stored.

28) There is crew or equipment reflected in a brass panel on the front of the Renault that Jack and Rose find in the cargo hold.

29) The disaster message that the radio operator starts clicking out on the telegraph key is not intelligible Morse code.

30) When Captain Smith enters the wheelhouse, the ship's telegraph is set to "Full Reverse" instead of "All Stop".

31) The sea water would be at or below freezing point, yet characters rarely display discomfort or disablement from being immersed.

32) Jack is supposedly 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 have no portholes.

33) That porthole is shown to be several feet below water, yet in a shot from inside the room, the surface of the water is visible inches above the porthole.

34) It is impossible for voices to echo in the middle of the North Atlantic unless there is a large, flat object like a ship nearby.

35) We are shown a shot of Rose's view of the Statue of Liberty from a ship, yet to obtain a view as indicated she would have to be on land.

36) When Rose hands Jack the dime for the picture he did of her, it's a dime that wouldn't have been minted until after Titanic sunk. The dime was from nowadays and had Eisenhower's face but Eisenhower wasn't around till after Titanic sunk. (ZimZum8226)

37) When you see the water burst throught the dome over the forward grand staircase you see J.J. Astor near the A deck vestibule. In fact JJ Astor was crushed by the forward funnel when it fell as his mutilated body was found about 4 days later. (Elvanic1)

38) Throughout the movie, Rose's eyes are brown. When "the picture" is being drawn, they mysteriously turn blue. They are also blue when she is an old lady "warm in her bed". (Innocent standbyers)

39) When Jack and Fabrizio enter the Titanic, the gangway door is closed by 6th Officer James Moody. Infact 3rd Officer Herbert Pitman and 4th Officer Joseph Boxhall were in charge of the gangway door. (Elvanic1)

40) Jack and Fabrizio enter through the D Deck reception which is in First Class. Third class had a separate entrance from first. (Elvanic1)

41) In the Iceberg scene Murdoch runs past 2nd Officer Lightoller and knocks the tea cup out of his hand. At this time Lightoller was in bed. (Elvanic1)

42) When Jack's coat is searched the Master At Arms reads " property of A.L Ryerson ". If you recall Jack stole the coat in the scene where the boy and his father are playing along with another passenger on the deck ( with a top ). This is based on an actual photo and it is the Speddens, not the Ryersons. (Elvanic1)

43) The photo was taken on the trip to Queenstown, not on April 14th. Fact: The Boy playing the father is Titanic Historian Don Lynch. (Elvanic1)


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