>While the current
>_Titanic_ is well researched and fundfed at a level to allow the
>research to be converted into accurate details, it’s “social message”
is
>a bit blatant and overdone.
>–
>TMOliver AKA El Pelon Sinverguenza

In total agreement here. Too much egalitarian “presentism” in that area
of the film, a problem found not just in movies but in Americanist
scholarship as well.

Timothy L. Francis
Historian
Naval Historical Center
email address: Francis.Timothy@nhc.navy.mil
voice: (202) 433-6802

The above remarks are my opinions, not those of the U.S. Navy or the
Department of Defense