TITANIC

• Crew or equipment visible: When Jack approaches the door to the grand staircase for the first time, the camera is reflected in the glass.
  
• Factual errors: The Titanic's middle propeller was powered by a Parsons steam turbine, which ran off expelled steam from the two main reciprocating engines. This meant that the turbine could only be run when a full head of steam had been generated. It would not and could not be used for maneuvering in port. Hence, the middle propeller would have been stationary when starting away from the dock.
  
• Factual errors: The reciprocating engines were controlled from a platform between the two engines about midway between the floor and the top of the cylinders, not from the engine room floor. Even if the engines were controlled from the floor level the controls would have been at the opposite end of the engines since we are looking at the aft end of the engines, and the boiler rooms are forward of the reciprocating engine room. Also, it would have been quite impossible to see those engines from the vantage point we are given since the watertight bulkhead between the reciprocating engine room and turbine engine room would prevent us from being able to stand back far enough.

• Continuity: When Captain Smith orders, "Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch - let's stretch her legs," they are standing to the right of the wheelhouse looking forward with the sun coming from their left. When Murdoch walks into the wheelhouse to carry out the order, the sun is behind him.
  
• Continuity: During the scene of the ship rising vertical immediately after it has split apart, there is a shot of the stern being pulled in by the bow, then there is a close-up shot of the deck at a 45 degree angle. It appears to not be moving (however, passengers are still sliding off), and there is no water on the hull visible.
  
• Anachronisms: [acknowledged by the James Cameron  Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir which wasn't created until 1917.
  
• Anachronisms: The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not developed until 1946.
  
• Factual errors: In overhead shots of the forecastle deck, the skylight for the crew's galley can be seen located to starboard. This skylight was actually on the port side.
  
• Anachronisms: A close-up of Captain Smith reveals that he is wearing modern contact lenses.
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the movie, when the Titanic is nearly vertical, a man, who is sliding down the ship, hits one of the capstans and it bends showing that it is clearly made of rubber.
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Rose punches the crewman who is dragging her down the hall, you can see the blood (from the blood pack) on his hand before it reaches his face. (Can be seen better in slow motion)
  
• Continuity: When Rose is doing her tippy toe thing at the party, she is seen with a cigarette in her hand and as the the camera cuts between shots, it disappears then comes back when the camera cuts again.
  
• Anachronisms: The button on the left side of Jack's borrowed jacket is a "Kingsdrew" button, first made in 1922.
  
• Continuity: Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are still standing apart.
  
• Continuity: When Rose gets the fire axe to cut Jack loose, she breaks the glass. When the camera comes back, more glass is present than what was broken when she first broke it.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the glass door opened for Jack as he enters the dining room.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: "Eternal Father Strong To Save" is sung during the worship service. While Robert Nelson Spencer wrote two verses in 1937, the lines quoted in the film were quoted in a book published in 1921 and were probably written much earlier.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the shot where Rose "flies," the faces of Jack and Rose are lit from a different angle, though still from the left.
  
• Continuity: The length of Rose's fingernails throughout the movie.
  
• Anachronisms: The gauges in the engine room are fitted with sweated tubing fittings, a plumbing technique not available when the ship was constructed. The fittings should have been threaded brass.
  
• Factual errors: There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area (and no access to any but authorized crew). If there had been a door, it would have entered the third cargo area aft, not the one where the Renault was stored.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in a brass panel on the front of the Renault that Jack and Rose find in the cargo hold.
  
• Factual errors: Professional radio operators hold the key with the thumb and two fingers, rather than tapping on it as shown. Tapping would produce a bad "fist" (the Morse code equivalent of a harsh voice).
  
• Factual errors: Jack is supposedly held prisoner in the Master-at-Arms' office, which is depicted as having a porthole. On the Titanic, this room was an interior room and hence would have no portholes.
  
• Factual errors: The crew of lifeboat #14 didn't have flashlights to use when looking for survivors in the water. James Cameron  knew this when making the film, but used the flashlights to provide lighting.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Some artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic included a number made of paper, which were saved by being in leather bags or such; it is therefore possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The tugs that assisted the Titanic away from the Southampton dock did belong to the company known today as the Red Funnel Line, but they had not yet adopted that nickname or colour scheme. As shown in the film, the actual tugs had beige funnels.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although the Titanic's fourth smokestack was not an exhaust avenue for the ship's engines, it was used as an outlet for the Titanic's massive kitchen. Since the Titanic used coal stoves, some smoke would have been coming out of the fourth smokestack. In one of the flyovers of the ship, it is possible to see that most of the top of the fourth smokestack is sealed.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is often claimed that there is a tattoo visible on Rose's arm when she attempts suicide. It is actually a moon-shaped black dot - some embellishment that has come loose from her robe, clearly visible in closer shots.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although her fingers partially obscure it, the coin that Rose gives to Jack is generally agreed to be a Barber dime, minted 1892-1916, not a modern dime as some viewers have incorrectly asserted. The Barber dime is distinctive because the portrait of Liberty on the head of the coin faces the right, not the left.
  
• Anachronisms: The gun Cal uses is in fact a model 1911A1, a modified version of the 1911 that didn't appear until 1926. The main distinguishing feature is its curved mainspring housing (bottom part of the grip), which on the 1911 is straight. Even if it were the standard 1911, that model had only been used by the military for a few months, and was not yet available in the nickel plating shown; the civilian version had only been available for about a month.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The credits explain that some dramatic license has been taken; this is apparent with several minor characters. For example, Benjamin Guggenheim's mistress, Madame Aubert, never dined in the First-Class Dining Salon; she took all of her meals in the a-la-carte restaurant on B Deck.
  
• Continuity: When the dinner party is breaking up, Cal throws the matches at Jack. Cal then passes Jack's shoulder twice as he's throwing the matches.
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the Titanic is sinking and begins to pitch forward, you can see passengers sliding forward across the deck. In one short scene, you can see a few people hit what's supposed to be a large metal reel. When they hit it, it crinkles, revealing that it's made of foam.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Rose is considering jumping off the ship at the beginning of the movie, she is not wearing the necklace she had on at dinner. Her hair is also different. In fact, there was a scene that was cut from the movie where Rose runs back to the parlor suite, tears off her necklace, lets her hair down, and in a fit of rage, destroys some of the items in her bedroom before running to the stern to attempt suicide.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The diamond in the film, "Le Coeur de la Mer", is supposed to be a diamond owned by Louis XVI and lost during the French Revolution, which Lovett also refers to as the "Blue Diamond of the Crown". In one early scene Lovett mentions to Rose that "today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond". Since that 56 ct. heart-shaped diamond is believed to be the source of the 45.5 ct. oval Hope Diamond, that makes sense. Further, since the source of the Hope Diamond is not certain, it's an acceptable fiction that it came from somewhere else and that the stone we see is the original, heart-shaped diamond.
  
• Anachronisms: The world map on the wall of the radio room shows countries with present-day borders.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: All accounts of the sinking by survivors report that the lights went out, flickered back on for a second, then went out for good before the ship broke in two, all of which is correctly shown in the movie. In fact, many survivors disputed that the ship broke apart at all before sinking. Naturally when the lights go out that quickly not everyone's eyes adjusted to the dark fast enough. Even though it has since been proven that the ship did break before sinking, one would imagine that there would be no room for dispute if the lights had stayed on until the ship broke.
  
• Anachronisms: When Rose is arriving in New York, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same color as now (green). But if you visit the Statue of Liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change color. The Statue of Liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been partly brown. Also, the flame was replaced in 1986 (for its 100th anniversary) with a gold flame. The film shows the Statue holding a torch with a gold flame, not the original.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the ship is shown at night, there appears to be a smaller version of the ship along side it. In fact, this is a tender ship.
  
• Factual errors: First Officer Murdoch is shown lowering Collapsible C lifeboat (the one with Ismay in it). It was actually Chief Officer Wilde who lowered this boat.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In some shots it is visible that people who hang or fall off the Titanic cast shadows on the Titanic's hull, although the only source of light was Titanic itself.
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Jack and Rose reunite the crying boy with his father in the flooded hallway outside the room where Rose frees Jack, there is a dimly lit, slow-motion shot of the two running toward the camera, but it is clearly not them; it is their stunt doubles.
  
• Anachronisms: Filtered cigarettes did not come out until the mid-'40s.
  
• Continuity: Young Rose's shoes are clearly off in one wide shot as she stands on the railing of the ship. As they cut to her before she turns around, when you can see her entire body, you can clearly see in two shots her toes outlined by black nylons clutching the rail, and NOT her heels as seen previously in other shots before and afterward when she slips on her gown going back over the rail to safety.
  
• Continuity: When Jack and Fabrizio first take to the bow of the ship, while dolphins are swimming along with it, they show them at the helm with the ship flying along but then on the close up of Jack looking down, his hair is stiff and unmoved, not a breath of wind, which would be impossible on a ship flying onward at sea in the afternoon.
  
• Boom mic visible: When old Rose is seated in her stateroom aboard the salvage ship with Lizzy her granddaughter and he comes in to ask if her stateroom's all right and if there's anything she'd like. She replies, "Yes, I'd like to see my drawing," and behind her on the wall you can see the large banana shaped shadow of the boom dip down for her line and up again.
  
• Continuity: When Rose is on deck, with Jack, looking at his sketchings, the hair around her face alternates between perfect ringlets and wind-blown straight.
  
• Factual errors: Captain Smith announces that he has ordered the last remaining unlit boilers lit. Actually only 24 of the 29 boilers were ever lit. The full-speed test (all boilers lit) was to have taken place on Monday, the 15th.
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the ship flyover, if you look closely you see a lady in a burgundy coat walking, but her feet aren't touching the ground. She is floating.
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Cal is shooting at Jack and Rose, Cal's shot hits a pineapple-shaped decorative item on the top of the base banister. In the next shot, we see the pineapple neatly blown apart with no bullet marks and vertical scorch marks from the pyrotechnic that was apparently used to blow it in half in the preceding shot.
  
• Continuity: The angle that the surface of the rising water has to the objects around should be nearly the same from scene to scene. Frequently one sees the ship already tipping at a high angle on the outside and in the cabins the surface of the water is still parallel to the ceiling. That could not happen while the ship remained rigid.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In order to show the correct side of the ship when it's docked, the image was flipped in post-production. As a result, there are an inordinate number of left-handed people waving from the deck of the ship.
  
• Continuity: Jack's hair when he is dancing with Rose below decks.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: By 1912 color photography was beginning to pass beyond the experimental stage; the Autochrome plate, for instance, had been introduced in 1907. While the general public, or even most photographers, would still hardly be likely to take pictures in color, the owner of the fabulous Heart of the Ocean diamond might well have wanted to record it for posterity, cost no object, in all its colorful glory.
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the the lifeboat occupants scan the bodies with their electric torches, looking for survivors, the pools of light cast on the water do not match where they point the torches. The pools of light are obviously coming from off-screen spotlights, and the torch-bearers are frantically moving the torches around to try to point to where the spotlights are pointing.
  
• Continuity: As Rose and Cal begin their breakfast together on the promenade deck, Rose picks up her cup of coffee, then picks it up again when we see her from behind.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The skids of the camera helicopter are reflected in the window of the helicopter taking Rose and her granddaughter out to the research ship.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Just after the collision, as Captain Smith walks to the starboard bridge-wing to look over the side and inspect the damage, the shadow of the camera is visible in the bottom left corner.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: While Jack is telling Rose about his past, the camera moves from a shot of the ship to a shot of them walking along the deck. You can see shadows of heaps of equipment and people moving along the ship (as the lights move).
  
• Anachronisms: Rose has modern acrylic nails as she writes the note to Cal that accompanies the drawing.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The painting by Norman  Wilkinson in the first class smoking room is actually an exact reproduction of "Plymouth Harbour," which went down on the Titanic, and not the Olympic's "Approach to the New World," a depiction of New York harbor. A few years back, black and white sketches of "Plymouth Harbour" were found and an exact copy was painted by his son for the Southampton Maritime Museum. The Museum confirms that the picture as shown is an accurate copy.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Rose and Jack are on the ship as it is going down vertically, Jack says "Hold on!" about a second before his lips move.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While on deck, Jack asks, "Do you love the guy or not?" The shot changes to show Rose's reaction. Jack's jaw can be seen moving, as if he's asking the same question again, but he's not heard.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In several instances, when people are standing on the rail, they appear to be crudely "pasted" in front of the sky.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the overhead shot of the Titanic splitting in half, a victim slides upwards. If the person was sliding down as the ship broke, their momentum would allow them to keep sliding.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the last underwater shot during the collision with the iceberg, an obviously fake hull is visible. The hull is sharply cut, and there is some object behind it.
  
• Anachronisms: While the officers are searching the hold for Jack and Rose, they use a flashlight with pure white light 7000k, not the yellowish light 2500k from a normal flashlight. Such lights were not available at that time. The light was a PEAKBEAM short-arc light, the tale-tell circle in the middle of the beam for the lamp-holder shows this.
  
• Anachronisms: When Jack is handcuffed to the steel pipes in the Master-at-Arms' office, the pipe fittings are of welded steel construction. Electric arc welding was not used until the late 1920's. Pipes would have been flanged and threaded.
  
• Anachronisms: The Afghan hound depicted during the movie was a beautiful specimen of today but quite different from one from the 1912 era - these dogs were very sparsely coated and much coarser in build - still uniquely beautiful but quite a contrast to today's Afghans.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There were a number of roller coasters in Santa Monica, as early as 1904; in any case, Jack tends to embellish his stories.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Jack and Fabrizio's third-class cabin correctly contains two sets of bunk beds, or 4 berths.
  
• Revealing mistakes: Rose's hair defies the law of gravity when she is atop the sinking ship. Her hair should be hanging down or at least moving in the cold wind as the scene suggests, but it is perfectly still and horizontal to the sinking ship.
  
• Factual errors: The coat worn by Captain Smith had plain anchor buttons; the actual tunics had "White Star Line" buttons.
  
• Factual errors: In several scenes when the ship's officers are outdoors on the cold night of the sinking, the rank insignia has the executive curl (the semi-circle atop one or more stripes indicating the rank) going astern (the wrong way). This would result in great embarrassment for the officers involved.
  
• Factual errors: The Titanic is shown to be at Southampton docks in brilliant sunshine. Yet, photographs from the actual event seem to show the sky overcast.
  
• Continuity: After Jack and Rose take a shortcut through the engine room to escape Cal's manservant, there is no soot on Rose's pale blue gown.
  
• Continuity: The size and shape of the clay pot Rose is making.
  
• Continuity: The last watertight door that is shown is at first pale, then suddenly it gets dark, and it goes pale again when it closes.
  
• Continuity: In the scene with Jack and Rose having sex in the car, the pass-through window between the seats through which Rose pulls Jack is open when he goes through it, and then in the next shot is closed without ever seeing him close it.
  
• Continuity: The safe that was opened on deck was much bigger than the one shown being used eighty years earlier.
  
• Continuity: When Jack is held prisoner in the Master-at-Arms' office you can see from time to time in the background a two-berth room. The top berth is neatly kept but later on even though Jack is alone and handcuffed and Rose in the two occasions she comes into that office never enters that room you can see that there is a pillow lying across the bed's border.
  
• Continuity: A small sign "crew only," helps Rose to find her way to free Jack from the handcuffs. It is located on the archway of the corridor, but it was not there when Jack and Rose had come at the same spot (the elevator's hall at E deck) a few hours before fleeing from Lovejoy.
  
• Continuity: When Jack and Fabrizio are playing cards, a fairly deep sore is noticeable on Jack's left middle finger as he holds his cards. The sore is gone when Jack joins Rose in the first class dining room for dinner only a few days later (the sore looks too deep to have healed so quickly).
  
• Continuity: When the smokestack is falling, the back of it comes out of the water. In the scene directly after, it is still coming out of the water.
  
• Continuity: When the Titanic is in port, the sun appears to come from several different angles. Compare the following: The shadow of the crewman loading the car, the shadows of people walking up the gangplank, the shadow of the sun's rays in the steam, the shadows that Rose and family cast on the gangplank, and the sunlight on the yellow building when they first enter Titanic.
  
• Continuity: When storming out of his room claiming to be robbed, parts of Cal's bangs are hanging in front of his face but when he turns around to see the steward his hair is tucked back smoothly.
  
• Continuity: At the dinner scene and the party scene below decks that follows, Rose's gloves disappear, reappear, then disappear again.
  
• Continuity: There is a small mole on Rose's face; when she boards the ship, it is shown on one side of her face (the film was flopped), and later in the movie it jumps to the other side.
  
• Continuity: When they get Cal's safe on the deck of the Keldysh, a crewman starts to grind on the hinges. In the next scene, he is standing up, just preparing to kneel down and work on the safe.
  
• Anachronisms: Rose admires a Claude Monet painting called "The Nymphs", painted in 1915.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When they find their rooms in steerage and Jack introduces himself to the Swedish men, Fab takes the top bunk. Jack turns to Fab and says "Who says you get top bunk, huh?" but his mouth never moves then or later to actually say it.
  
• Continuity: When Rose sets the axe between the bars as she takes off her coat, the axe blade rests against two metal bars to keep it from falling into the water. The next shot showing Rose from behind now shows the axe at a completely different angle with the blade positioned against only one metal bar.
  
• Continuity: During Jack and Rose's trip on the deck to the bow right before the sinking, she is wearing flat shoes. In the water, laying on the furniture (as Jack hangs on) she is wearing high heels.
  
• Continuity: After the "Lets stretch her legs" scene, we can see chief engineer Bell After the "Let's stretch her legs" scene, we can see Chief Engineer Bell increasing steam pressure by turning the regulator counterclockwise. Later, during the collision with the iceberg, we can see some worker decreasing pressure by starting to turn the regulator clockwise, yet in next shot, he is turning the regulator counterclockwise, still decreasing the pressure. Several shots later, after change to reverse, Bell is increasing pressure by turning the regulator clockwise.
  
• Continuity: Paper money wad that First Officer Murdoch throws at Cal.
  
• Continuity: When Jack and Fabrizio are standing at the bow Jack is holding his arm under the rope that goes up toward the look-out. In the next cut the arm is over and in the next again it's under.
  
• Continuity: When Jack breaks down the third-class gate and frees the steerage passengers from the stairwell, you can see Tommy Ryan take Rose by the arm to get her over the fallen bench. In the next shot, he takes her arm again in the same place.
  
• Continuity: After Jack saves Rose from jumping from the stern of the ship, the make-up under Rose's left eye appears and disappears, then reappears, as does the dress she is holding in her left hand.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Brock is filming from the inside of the submarine, he's supposed to be well under water, by the wreck of the Titanic. The light outside the window is coming from the submersible's outside lights.
  
• Anachronisms: When Jack and Fabrizio are running to board the Titanic, Jack has a rucksack, standard issue Swedish Army gear, circa 1939.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Rose and Jack are on the first-class promenade, where she is thanking him, the shadow of the camera is visible on the wall.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jack throws the cigarette in the water, it disappears before it reaches to the end of the screen.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: As the ship is sinking, the string players walk away, but one remains. As he begins to play, two others return. One is a double bass, but the sound of a double bass is not heard within the piece.
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jack is drawing the portrait of Rose, she says "I believe you are blushing, Mr. Big Artiste", and you can clearly see that there is nothing on the paper.
  
• Continuity: On the scene back into Rose's cabin, after Lovejoy slips the diamond into Jack's pocket, Jack's left hand in his trouser pocket changes from having the thumb in/out of it between shots.
  
• Continuity: When Rose and her granddaughter are at their home, their Pomeranian is brown. When Rose is being lifted out of the helicopter, and when she is in her suite unpacking, the Pomeranian is white.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During 'Nearer My God To Thee', when we see Thomas Andrews standing at the fireplace, when he changes the time on the clock, a few glasses fall off the mantle "from the tilt". But, you can see (at least in the 2.35:1 widescreen verison), the string that is used to pull the second glass off the mantle against his back coat.
  
• Revealing mistakes: The Swedish spoken by the card-playing man (who is later close to punching Jack as he wins the tickets) is obviously learned for the occasion by the actor and barely intelligible, although it reveals that he is angry because his friends are staking the tickets. The actor playing his friend, however, is certainly a native speaker, and defends his actions by saying that he is trying to win the tickets back.
  
• Factual errors: All of the double doors on D deck, the ones passengers pass through to the elevators and to the first class dining room, are incorrect. The real ones on the Titanic all had glass and the handles were further up in the middle, attached to rectangular metal plates.
  
• Factual errors: The stern section, when visible during the Titanic's launch, is missing a porthole in the white section near the railing.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the very right in one of the shots during the scene where Jack and Rose are trapped behind the third class gates as the hallway is filling up with water.
  
• Continuity: When Jack and Rose first meet at the back of the ship, Rose is clearly wearing jeweled, slip-on shoes and black stockings. However, when she is lying on the deck after being rescued by Jack, she is wearing red lace up boots instead.
  
• Factual errors: In the scene when the iceberg passes the promenade deck, passengers are looking at the iceberg. You can see in the back the rear davit is out. At this point the only davits out were the front davits.
  
• Continuity: In the scene right after Rose and Jack are found lying on the deck, after Jack saves Rose from her attempted suicide, where Hockley, Lovejoy, and a few others have appeared to see what the commotion was about, Rose's earrings are undeniably green at every angle, so it could not have been a lighting effect. At dinner, and standing on the railing, they were black and silver, to match her necklace she previously wore.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the ship is bearing down on the iceberg, the officer orders the helmsman to put the helm hard to starboard and later hard to port. In each case the helmsman appears to do exactly the opposite. However, prior to the advent and mass popularity of the automobile, a ship's wheel was rigged such that to turn the ship left (port), the wheel was turned clockwise (or as we would consider it, to the right). It was only after a generation of drivers had grown up driving cars that the shipping industry began rigging their wheels to conform.
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Cal arrives and gets out of his car, he looks ahead in amazement. Except Titanic is visible behind him though the car's door, and from this angle we can see that the entire rear of the ship is just scaffolding.
  
• Factual errors: Shots of the Titanic steaming at night and just prior to hitting the iceberg show a great deal of lights on the foredeck and from the cabin windows on the front of the ship facing the foredeck. In reality, Atlantic liners would not have so much light showing forward of the bridge as the glare would interfere with navigation at night.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Rose is stepping up onto the railing during the "I'm Flying" sequence, in the wide screen version of the film you can see to the very right that the railing is ending and there is a cable visible dangling over where the railing ends.
  
• Revealing mistakes: The Rose "drawing" that's found and cleaned with great care that was in the safe is a noticeably different version than the "drawing" Jack is sketching. Notice how the face, lips, eyes, hands and overall picture is much different than Jack's sketch.
  
• Factual errors: When the ship hits the iceberg, water is seen entering the ship's garage on E deck. E deck was not immediately flooded, as it was two decks above the point of collision.
  
• Continuity: When Rose is in the lifeboat looking up at Jack the smokestack behind him is lit up, but in the next scene it isn't.
  
• Continuity: When the watertight compartments are closing just after the collision men are climbing through it as it is coming down, in the next scene it is coming down again.
  
• Continuity: When Jack and Rose are walking on the boat deck, the sunlight changes from being on the side to being behind them.
  
• Continuity: After Rose uses the axe to cut Jack's handcuffs, they appear off his hands throughout the rest of the movie. Although, before Rose came, it showed him trying to pull his hand through the cuffs and it didn't work and he never got the key.
  
• Continuity: When Cal and Rose are having breakfast Cal puts his teacup on the saucer but in the next scene he still has it in his hand.
  
• Continuity: When Murdoch tells quartermaster Hitchen to turn hard a starboard he passes behind Moody to the telegraph. In the next scene he passes Moody again.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the end scene of the movie when the camera returns to the grand staircase to view all of the passengers aboard, the camera tilts up to the glass of the grand staircase. The water tank release is clearly visible, it outlines one of the main window panes in the top of the frame. This was used to release the water when the set was flooded.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Cal chases Rose and Jack down into the flooding dining room, all the windows are burnt out with bright white light. These are outside windows and it is the middle of the night.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the Titanic sinks, a lifeboat returns to look for survivors. The officer in the boat is shouting and his voice is echoing, for it to echo it would have to hit a surface and reflect back but as it is the middle of the Atlantic and there is nothing to echo back from.
  
• Factual errors: When Rose boards Titanic, the entrance vestibule is shown with a pair of wooden doors. When James Cameron  visited the wreck two years after filming ended, he discovered that the doors were in fact inaccurately portrayed in the film.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The paintings shown in Rose's cabin, apparently by Pablo Picasso
  , Claude Monet, and Edgar Degas have been the subject of much criticism, supposedly because these paintings are originals that never traveled on Titanic, or because they were too large to fit aboard the ship. In truth, the paintings are just imitations of the styles of each artist. The painting by Picasso is not the famed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, but merely a painting in the same style.
  
• Continuity: When Jack helps Rose into the car right before they have sex, a rose flower is seen in a glass vase on the wall of the car, when she pulls Jack into the back of the car with her, the rose is gone.
  
• Continuity: When the engineers get the order to reduce the steam to the engines the wheel he is turning is black but when the chief engineer pushes him out of the way and continues to turn the wheel it is gold.
  
• Continuity: When Rose starts to climb the railing she is holding up part of her dress, but as she continues to climb the rail she isn't.
  
• Continuity: Before Jack draws Rose, her robe is see-through. After Jack draws her and she is writing a letter to Cal, her robe is no longer see-through.
  
• Continuity: While Rose and Jack are having sex in the car, you can see Rose's hand leaving a mark on the rear window. Immediately after that, the camera moves inside the car, and it is clearly seen that the mark of the hand in the window is not only in a lower part but also in a different shape.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the crow's nest notifies the captain's crew of an iceberg, the crew says to turn starboard, which is right. When the crewman turns the wheel, however, he is turning the wheel left, to port. However, prior to the advent and mass popularity of the automobile, a ship's wheel was rigged such that to turn the ship left (port), the wheel was turned clockwise (or as we would consider it, to the right). It was only after a generation of drivers had grown up driving cars that the shipping industry began rigging their wheels to conform.
  
• Factual errors: When Lovett and his team are looking at the wreck, the stern is out of the silt, even though in the actual sinking the stern hit the ocean floor with such force that it not only split in two (meaning that the ship was in 3 parts) but that the stern was buried deep in the silt.
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Rose first comes on board Lovett's boat, he says that "everyone who knows about the diamond is on this boat, yet she knows," referring to Rose, but he earlier referred to the diamond while on the phone with his sponsor, so there is at least one person not on the boat who knows of the diamond.
  
• Errors in geography: A strip of desert is visible between the dock and the Titanic when docked at Southampton.
  
• Factual errors: Passengers were not allowed at the forecastle head, or bow. The sign that declared "Passengers Not Allowed Beyond This Point" was mounted on the leeward side of the forward breakwater (both port and starboard), and was missing in the film.
  
• Revealing mistakes: Rose's hair changes shades throughout the scene where she attempts suicide, partially due to the lighting but also due to the changes from the stunt double.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Murdoch finishes loading one of the lifeboats he says "Ready on the left", and "lower away" but doesn't say "Ready on the right". When lowering a lifeboat the officer would say "Ready on the left" then "Ready on the right" and finally "Lower away". However, just after he calls "Ready on the left", he turns and sees Bruce Ismay in the lifeboat. Obviously stunned, he pauses before resigning himself to continue, and simply calls "Lower away".
  
• Continuity: Just after the dome implosion on the grand staircase, the propellers are seen coming out of the water. A few seconds later they are coming out of the water again.
  
• Factual errors: The Titanic 4th Funnel is shown falling backwards onto the deck after the breakup before falling into the water, seen in the simulation and the sinking sequence. It could do no such thing, it would fall forward, like the other funnels. Also, the 2nd Funnel isn't shown falling in the sinking sequence, unlike the simulation, where it does.
  
• Continuity: Just after the Titanic breaks in half, the propellers are seen coming out of the water. When the stern rises up a few minutes later, the propellers are coming out of the water again.
  
• Factual errors: When the ship hits the iceberg, water is seen entering the ship's garage on E deck. In reality, E deck was not immediately flooded, as it was two decks above the point of collision.
  
• Continuity: When Rose is in the life boat, it starts to lower. However, after Cal and Jack finish their little talk, the boat is actually higher than it was when they began.
  
• Anachronisms: The underwater shots of the propellers are incorrect. The famous photo of the ship in dry dock and the men standing under the propellers clearly shows that the propellers were bolted together which giant nuts as was the practice at that time. The underwater shots of the propellers show smooth metal (no bolt heads/nuts) suggesting welding, which didn't get mastered until WWII.
  
• Factual errors: When the Titanic hits the iceberg, Thomas Andrews is shown to be in his room going over blueprints and clearly notices that something has happened. Although it is true that Andrews was in his room working on improvements for the ship when the collision occurred, he did not actually feel it himself; he was actually summoned by the crew.
  
• Factual errors: The film drastically downplays the "women and children first" custom of the time period. In actuality, it would have been unthinkable for a man to save himself instead of giving his seat to a woman or child, which is not the picture painted in the movie of the men clamoring for a place on the lifeboats.
  
• Factual errors: The third-class passengers were never locked below deck so that priority could be given to saving first-class passengers. In fact, as soon as the ship began to sink the crew went below to lead the third-class women and children to safety; however, most of these passengers did not speak English and therefore did not understand the situation. Three quarters of them died due to this lack of communication.
  
• Factual errors: Molly Brown did speak up in the lifeboat but she became famous as "unsinkable" for actually rowing the lifeboat herself and for rallying the other women in the boat to do the same. When the male officer in charge said there was no hope of rescue, she threatened to throw him overboard; she did not back down as she is depicted in the film.
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the flyover scene of the ship not only is the crew's skylight on the wrong side, but if you pay attention, the entire ship is flipped. For example you can see the entrance to the gymnasium on the port side (It should be starboard) and also the stairs leading up to the docking bridge is on the port side.
  
• Continuity: When Jack is handcuffed to the pipes, the water levels seen through the porthole are different in each shot from the outside and inside.
  
• Plot holes: Rose includes a detailed scene in her story, when Ismay talks Captain Smith into speeding up the boats despite iceberg warnings. How would this be in her memory, if she wasn't even there?
  
• Continuity: When Jack gives Rose the note after dinner, it's yellow, but when she reads it, it's white.
  
• Continuity: When Tommy yells, "You can't keep us locked in here like animals, the ship's bloody sinking!" his right hand is grabbing on to the gate at head level. The next shot shows Tommy with his right hand down and his left hand grabbing the gate.
  
• Errors in geography: The dolphins seen in the "I'm King of the World" segment (when Jack and Fabrizio are up on the bow of the ship) are Pacific white-sided dolphins. The Titanic was in the North Atlantic.
  
• Factual errors: Rose runs into Andrews, who gives her directions on how to reach Jack. The directions he gives her does not correspond to the real deck plan on RMS Titanic; it would have led her to nowhere rather then the Master-at-Arms' office.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Second Officer Lightoller shouts, "Hold on to her! Pull her in!" when a woman ready to board a lifeboat is nearly pushed overboard, yet his mouth does not move.
  
• Anachronisms: Rose mentions Sigismund Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. Freud did not publish the work relating to this until 1920 in "The Pleasure Principle." Also, up until 1919, Freud relied solely on data from females.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Jack meets Rose at the grand staircase and is meeting the other first class passengers, the blue screen is visible in the windows behind him.
  
• Continuity: After the drawing is completed and Rose has dressed, she is not wearing her engagement ring. Several scenes from then until the final sinking, show her left hand devoid of the ring. However, when she is underwater after the stern has sunk, a scene shows the violent suction of the water pulling that ring off her finger and flying away in the vortex.
  
• Factual errors: There are many minute contradictions of history, both in events and in the technical details of the ship. This film is prey to a large number of factual errors due to the large volume of documentary evidence from the actual event.
  
• Anachronisms: According to historians, nobody on the ship referred to Margaret Brown as "Molly", her nickname at the time was actually "Maggie".
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Rose and Jack (among others) are standing on the ship as it is sinking and they are about the go into the water, the size of the waves compared to the people don't match up. It looks as if the people were pasted there next to normal-sized waves.
  
• Errors in geography: When Rose "flies" from the ship's bow, the sunlight is clearly falling almost exactly straight across the ship from left to right. On the evening of April 14, the ship had in fact turned to almost a due west course, placing the actual setting sun almost straight ahead and slightly to the right.
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The hands sketching Rose are clearly too old to belong to Jack. (They actually belong to director James Cameron)
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the radio operator sends out the "CQD" message, the pattern of dots and dashes he makes with the key is not intelligible Morse code.
  
• Errors in geography: While walking on the deck the day after Jack rescues Rose, just before she shows him her ring, if you look over the rail of the ship you can see waves coming into shore.
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jack is handcuffed to the pipe and Rose uses the axe to free him, one can see, especially in slow motion, that the axe hits the back of Jack's hand and not the handcuffs.
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Titanic is leaving, the newsreel cameraman is cranking the camera left-handed; hand-cranked cameras are all right-handed, but the scene was filmed mirror image and reversed.
  
• Revealing mistakes: There is dirt on the lens (right side of screen) during the dining room scene angle on Jack.
  
• Factual errors: The closing credits state that Titanic (1997) was "Filmed in Panavision". This is incorrect. It was filmed using the Super 35 process that James Cameron  has used for all of his movies and not using the Panavision anamorphic wide screen process. It was filmed, however, with Panavision cameras.
  
• Factual errors: When the dock workers at Southampton cast off Titanic's mooring lines, the heaving lines are still attached to her mooring lines. The smaller heaving lines are used only to pull a ship's larger mooring lines down to the dock when the ship arrives. Then, only the ship's mooring lines are fastened to the dock or are cast off when she departs.
  
• Errors in geography: An overhead shot of the ship on its way to New York shows the shadows of the masts falling to the left, but the sun is shining from the left (=south) also.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the collision with the iceberg, the Captain orders all engines to be stopped. However, the telegraph bells are only heard once, meaning that the other engine would still be in full reverse, which it clearly isn't.
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the church service, the pianist can be seen hitting the keys, but not moving his hands to change chords or hit any other notes.
  
• Anachronisms: In the scene when Jack is shown in the Master-at-Arms' office from the outside of the ship through a porthole, the hull appears to be of a smooth, modern welded construction. In fact, the Titanic's hull was constructed of overlapping plates held in place with round headed rivets.
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Lewis Bodine is talking about the moment the iceberg hit the Titanic he states that it "punched holes like Morse code...below the water line" in the hull; however, this is not the case. There were many possible factors in the sinking but the closest to Bodine's statement is that when the iceberg hit, it 'popped' the rivets, causing the hull to open and let the water in.
  
• Factual errors: "Le Coeur de la Mer" actually translates in French to "The Heart of the Sea". The correct name for the Heart of the Ocean should have been, "La Coeur de l'ocean."
  
• Factual errors: Only the first-class passengers had access to the promenade. Jack, a steerage passenger, would not have been allowed on the promenade, hence, he would never have met Rose or the other first-class passengers.
  
• Revealing mistakes: While the boat it flooding, it's also leaning forward. Though, while Rose is saving Jack, they walk on a flat surface.
  
• Anachronisms: When Jack and Rose are at the lifeboat and Cal says, "Get on the boat rose", you can see 2 red TV tower lights flashing in the distant background over the ship's cabin.
  
• Factual errors: When the band starts playing "Nearer My God To Thee" at the ships final moment, they are playing the American version "Bethany". Considering the Titanic was a British vessel containing mostly British crew, it is extremely unlikely the band would know - or use - an Americanized tune. Instead they would have likely used the British version "Horbury".
  
• Continuity: When Rose is standing on the back of the Titanic during her attempt to commit suicide her left hand changes from holding up her dress to just holding onto the railing.
  
• Factual errors: In the film, the Palm Court's wicker furniture is tan, but on the real Titanic (and seen in many archival photos), it was actually white. Also, the tables are circular (Olympic only), but on Titanic, they were square. Lastly, the walls are seen bare, but on Titanic, each wall had real climbing ivy.
  
• Factual errors: The lights remain lit even after the engine room has flooded with sea water shown by the sea level being above the port holes which would extinguish the boilers fires and stop the engine driving the electric generator(s).
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie when the elderly Rose is placing her photographs, she places them facing her bed. Later at the end of the movie, while she is asleep, it is clear the the photographs are arranged away from her bed.
  
• Factual errors: First Officer Murdoch, a real person, was depicted as committing suicide by gunshot in the movie but in reality he did no such thing. Two crew members (one being 2nd officer Lightoller) saw Murdoch on the Boat Deck attempting to free Collapsible A just before the bridge went under. Officer Murdoch was washed into the sea where another crewman (radio operator Harold Bride) saw him near Collapsible B but that he died in the water.
  
• Continuity: When Officer Lightoller takes the call from the lookouts warning about the iceberg ahead, the clock reads 11.40pm. Four minutes later when Captain Smith arrives on the bridge, the clock still reads 11.40pm, even though four minutes have passed.
  
• Factual errors: In several testimony's of the actual survivors of Titanic, it is stated that Bruce Ismay was heroic and energetic and had to be persuaded to get into the lifeboat - was not the nervous and cowardly man shown in the movie.
  
• Anachronisms: When Rose and her mother are at tea on the last Sunday of the voyage, Mrs. DeWitt-Bukater can be heard complaining to the other ladies about Rose's selection for bridesmaid's dresses and the color. She can be heard to reference the "daughter of the Duchess of Marlborough". In 1912, the Duchess of Marlborough was American débutante Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough who was the first wife to the 9th Duke of Marlborough whom she married in November of 1895. While the Duke and Duchess separated in 1906, they were not formally divorced until 1921. In 1912, Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough was still the Duchess of Marlborough of record. As such, she and the Duke had two sons but no daughters and neither of their sons was of marriageable age in 1912 and the eldest son, John Spencer-Churchill, the Tenth Duke of Marlborough did not inherit the dukedom until 1934.
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Rose and Jack meet up before the first class dinner, Jack kisses Rose's hand and says, "I saw that on Nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it." He is referring not to the TV company (created in 1977 under the name Pinwheel) but to a theatre company, founded in 1888.
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the black and white shots of the Titanic in port on sailing day, there is a shot of a blond woman in a straw hat leaning over a railing to wave enthusiastically at the dock (she waves towards the Titanic's port side). However, in the color flashback scene of sailing day, this same woman is waving towards the starboard side of the ship (out to sea). The color shot was not reversed during editing.
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the film, when old Rose is looking at the drawing, she says that she only wore The Heart of the Ocean that one time ("it was dreadfully heavy") but she tried it on it earlier when Hockley first showed it to her.
  
• Continuity: When Rose breaks the glass to get the fire ax, all of the glass falls out. In the next shot, she reaches in for the ax and most of the glass is still in the frame.
  
• Anachronisms: When Rose asks Jack to draw her, she pays him with a Roosevelt dime, which weren't minted until 1946. In 1912, dimes were engraved with a portrait of Liberty wearing a laurel wreath, and were commonly referred to as Barber dimes (named for the Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint at the time, Charles Barber).
  
• Anachronisms: When Jack and Rose are talking about going to the Santa Monica Pier, Jack says that they will "ride on the roller coaster until we throw up" but the Roller Coaster was not added to the pier until 1916.
  
• Factual errors: The blue diamond "Le Coeur de la Mer" is stated as having 56 carats which would put its weight at 56 * 0.2 = 11.2 grams which would be much too low for a diamond this size.