yanceycravat Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 I can't believe no one caught this error... While introducing TURN BACK THE CLOCK (1933) Ben said, director Edgar Selwyn and his wife were scheduled to return to America on the Titanic in April 1915! I had to rewind the dvr just to be sure I heard what I heard. One of the most written about events of the 20th Century. How could the researchers get that one wrong? And just in case there's someone out there who doesn't know... the year was 1912. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmovieviewer Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 “Time Travel” is the special theme on Thursday nights. Maybe there’s more to it than we thought… 🙃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Maybe it was a different Titanic. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 My grandfather and his brother got held up in traffic, missing sailing on the Titanic by about a half hour. They had tickets for third class steerage. As a small boy I never thought to ask Grandpa if he still had that ticket. Probably not. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Wow! You just missed having famous ancestors by just that much! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, slaytonf said: Wow! You just missed having famous ancestors by just that much! If things had gone badly for them (third class steerage, after all) I wouldn't have been around to know about my ancestors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanceycravat Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, TomJH said: If things had gone badly for them (third class steerage, after all) I wouldn't have been around to know about my ancestors. I believe we're all here because of a twist of fate in someone else's life. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Reading a prompter might make 1912 look like 1915. Or it could have been a keying error. The 2 is just above the 5 on a numeric pad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 48 minutes ago, TomJH said: If things had gone badly for them (third class steerage, after all) I wouldn't have been around to know about my ancestors. *Sigh* The price of fame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 30 minutes ago, slaytonf said: *Sigh* The price of fame. I wasn't thinking of any fame (and I don't know where you get that anyway, how many third class steerage victims' names are famous?) so much as the quirks of fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Rat Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Since it's Beat Up on Ben day, I was disappointed last night that Ben referred to the movie Berkeley Square as "Burkley" rather than the proper English "Barkley" Square. Last week he got "Hubert de Givenchy" correct, which is much more difficult to get right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 3 hours ago, LuckyDan said: Reading a prompter might make 1912 look like 1915. Or it could have been a keying error. The 2 is just above the 5 on a numeric pad. Sure. But too, he might have misread it. Might have been supposed to say the director and wife were supposed to return on April 15th, 1912, the date the ship sank. But apparently they missed the boat. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnoirguy Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 3 hours ago, LuckyDan said: Reading a prompter might make 1912 look like 1915. Or it could have been a keying error. The 2 is just above the 5 on a numeric pad. Apparently Ben isn't good at thinking on his feet? Or maybe he doesn't know the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 hour ago, filmnoirguy said: Apparently Ben isn't good at thinking on his feet? Or maybe he doesn't know the year. Obviously he didn't know enough to overrule the teleprompter. I thought it went down in 1911, but I'm sure I would have questioned a date as late as 1915. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanceycravat Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Just now, LuckyDan said: Obviously he didn't know enough to overrule the teleprompter. I thought it went down in 1911, but I'm sure I would have questioned a date as late as 1915. 1 hour ago, Sepiatone said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanceycravat Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, LuckyDan said: Obviously he didn't know enough to overrule the teleprompter. I thought it went down in 1911, but I'm sure I would have questioned a date as late as 1915. Whether it was the person who set the teleprompter or Ben reading it wrong, I guess I'm just shocked anyone of a certain age wouldn't know the tragedy took place in 1912. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, yanceycravat said: Whether it was the person who set the teleprompter or Ben reading it wrong, I guess I'm just shocked anyone of a certain age wouldn't know the tragedy took place in 1912. I would think that is most people over 40. I was a year off and I'm interested in this kind of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 3 hours ago, King Rat said: Last week he got "Hubert de Givenchy" correct, which is much more difficult to get right. It's pronounced "Halston", isn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 20 minutes ago, Fedya said: It's pronounced "Halston", isn't it? So he got an A in French and a C in history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianNH Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 And an "F" in film studies! Heavens to Betsy!, how many movies and TV shows have dealt with the Titanic as the main subject -- with the date splashed across the sceen in newspapers and everything!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vautrin Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Maybe they got it mixed up with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. I watched In Which We Serve. If I heard it correctly Churchswill gives an address announcing the declaration of war against Germany, but at that time Churchswill was not yet PM. Whatever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LsDoorMat Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Vautrin said: Maybe they got it mixed up with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. I watched In Which We Serve. If I heard it correctly Churchswill gives an address announcing the declaration of war against Germany, but at that time Churchswill was not yet PM. Whatever. That was what I was thinking - that he somehow got the date of the sinking of the Lusitania mixed up with the date of the sinking of the Titanic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanceycravat Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 hour ago, LsDoorMat said: That was what I was thinking - that he somehow got the date of the sinking of the Lusitania mixed up with the date of the sinking of the Titanic. Nah... He got the event right but the wrong date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vautrin Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 hour ago, LsDoorMat said: That was what I was thinking - that he somehow got the date of the sinking of the Lusitania mixed up with the date of the sinking of the Titanic. Me too. I believe he mentioned the date first, so I thought a story about the Lusitania would follow. A minor error in the larger scheme of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 4 hours ago, Vautrin said: Maybe they got it mixed up with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. I watched In Which We Serve. If I heard it correctly Churchswill gives an address announcing the declaration of war against Germany, but at that time Churchswill was not yet PM. Whatever. My guess is they took it straight off wiki. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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