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
Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic The Grand Staircase is the name sometimes given to the large ornate staircases in the first-class section of the White Star Line liner RMS "Titanic", which sank following a collision with an iceberg in 1912. The staircase has been prominently featured in "Titanic" media and often recreated in film, making it one of the most recognizable features of the lost liner. Sited in the forward part of the ship, the Grand Staircase was the main communication between decks for First-Class passengers and the point of entry to numerous public rooms. It descended in seven