This film was made following the tragic sinking of the Harland and Wolff-built liner, Titanic, on 15th of April, 1912. The film is believed to contain the only authentic filmed material of the Titanic. Contrary to the title card, this film possibly shows Titanic moving to the fitting out wharf, c. March 6, 1912. This is hard to know for sure as she was moved in and out of the graving dock to allow for repairs to Olympic, twice. If you look to the left of the front of the ship, you can see two long pipes going down from the deck, these are the toilets for the shipyard workers and would not be present once the ship was complete.

Also in the film are scenes from around the area of the disaster, film from New York of some surviving crew, Fr Hogue - a passenger of the Carpathis who first sighed the lifeboats, and radio inventor Marconi. 

Although the newsreel is nearly seven minutes long and covers only the first minute presents actual footage of the Titanic. This is the only established authentic footage of the Titanic in existence. Mostly this was due to the fact that before its infamous collision with an iceberg the Titanic was not a significant news story. Although it was the largest liner of its kind in the world, it had two sister ships, the Olympic and Britannic, and it was the Olympic which took most credit (and media attention) as it was the first to be launched.

• Titanic - Encyclopedia Titanica
• Titanic - NMNI
• Titanic - The New Yorker
• Titanic - National Geographic
• Titanic - BBC History
• Titanic - Titanic Belfast
• Launch of RMS Celtic - National Museums Northern Ireland
• Titanic and Other White Star Line Ships
• White Star Line History