Sunday, 12 August 2007

Titanic error

If you're going to pinch video clips from someone else's film to back up your own story, make sure you choose one a bit less famous than Titanic.

If only the Russian TV channel RTR had heeded that advice before claiming that the footage of "Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole" were genuine. It was a 13 year old boy from Finland who found the images strangely familiar, and revealed that they were in fact identical to sequences from James Cameron's movie about the 1912 shipwreck.

I'm sure nobody would have noticed if they'd nicked pictures from a lesser-known maritime disaster film, such as Poseidon or Deep Rising, though they would have had to remember to airbrush out the giant monster tentacles, which could give the game away:


Source:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2146373,00.html

2 comments:

Lucy Dee said...

(Feel free to erase/delete this comment as it does not pertain to your original post.)

Hey, thanks for the comment! You should check out another post I have on Metabigotry in comedy. A lot of people seem to have varied opinions on the subject.

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Lucy

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