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
Sinking of the RMS Titanic to respond was SS "Mount Temple", which set a course and headed for "Titanic"'s position but was stopped en-route by pack ice. Much nearer was , which had warned "Titanic" of ice a few hours earlier. Apprehensive at his ship being caught in a large field of drift ice, "Californian"s captain, Stanley Lord, had decided at about 22:00 to halt for the night and wait for daylight to find a way through the ice field. At 23:30, 10 minutes before "Titanic" hit the iceberg, "Californian"s sole radio operator, Cyril Evans, shut his set down for the night and went to