3 mo. ago • 89%

TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous brea

en.wikipedia.org Saved from the Titanic - Wikipedia

TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous breakdown and never acted again.

Today I Learned (TIL) @lemmit.online TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous ...

Today I Learned (TIL) @lemmit.online TIL that the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered just 31 days after the event. It starred Dorothy Gibson, an actual survival of the tragedy, who co-wrote the script and played a...

70 comments

I'm having a nervous brea reading this comment thread

172
- read the desc.
  
  -73
  
  Bro just hop on the joke and laugh with the rest of us, nobody is insulting you, everyone is just having fun with the weird truncation in the title
  
  80
  
  First brea, now desc - it's a madhouse over here!!
  
  /s
  
  77
The film has now been completely lost, there's no surviving copies. It's pretty crazy that something that important was just allowed to vanish from history.

92
- Speaking of not letting stuff vanish from history...
  
  16
  
  (I was so sure that this was going to be a Lazy Town song)
  
  Anyway, link to the initiative:
  
  https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en
  
  9
  
  This actually is a really good modern example and quite relevant!
  
  5
  
  thanks for making me aware of this initiative, just signed it!
  
  4
- Seriously asking - why is it 'this important'?
  Like a still fresh testimony?
  
  11
  
  It's perhaps not the most historically important film, but it's importance seem more than the cost would have been of preserving a few prints in different places.
  
  17
  
  The only still fresh testimony.
  
  13
- Awe man! I wanted to see it.
  
  1
- Like her (Ms Gibson's) acting career
  
  1
She had a nervous brea?

I hate when that happens.

64
- She clearly had a nervous bread:
  
  51
  
  the yeast of her problems, really
  
  32
  
  Mist!
  
  5
- Spanish for tar. She had a nervous tar, but in Spanish.
  
  11
- Nervous breath? We'll never know.
  
  5
- read the description.
  
  -41
  
  24
  
  Or how about you fix the title? Just hit the edit button..
  
  5
  
  Guess old reddit habits die hard. Love to see someone get down votes for not understanding a joke
  
  2
These broken titles are infuriating and I'll down vote every single one no matter the content

39
- My instance doesn’t even allow downvotes. That’s like 2 layers of irony lol.
  
  9
I think there's something wrong with the tit

34
- Permanently Deleted
  
  7
I had a nervous brea one time. Nearly shat me britches

14

You've viewed 70 comments.

TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous brea

/s