Saved from the Titanic at 6:15 am by the RMS "Carpathia" and taken to New York. Only a few days after she returned to New York, Gibson began work on a film based on the disaster. The impetus may have come from Jules Brulatour, an Éclair Film Company producer with whom she was having an affair. According to "Billboard" magazine he sent "specially chartered tugboats and an extra relay of cameramen" to film the arrival of "Carpathia". The footage was spliced together with other scenes such as "Titanic"s Captain Edward Smith on the bridge of the RMS "Olympic", "Titanic"s sister ship, images of the
British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic was initially some confusion in both the United States and the UK over the extent of the disaster, with some newspapers at first reporting that the ship and the passengers and crew were safe. By the time "Carpathia" reached New York, it had become clear that "Titanic", reputed to be unsinkable, had sunk and many had died. Official inquiries were set up in both countries to investigate the circumstances of the disaster. When news of the disaster reached the UK government the responsibility for initiating an inquiry lay with the Board of Trade, the organisation responsible for British maritime regulations