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Sinking of the RMS Titanic conclusions: the regulations on the number of lifeboats that ships had to carry were out of date and inadequate; Captain Smith had failed to take proper heed of ice warnings; the lifeboats had not been properly filled or crewed; and the collision was the direct result of steaming into a danger area at too high a speed. Both inquiries strongly criticised Captain Lord of "Californian" for failing to render assistance to "Titanic". Neither inquiry found negligence by the International Mercantile Marine Co. (the parent company) or the White Star Line (which owned "Titanic") to be a factor. The US inquiry