TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous breakdown and never acted again.

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These broken titles are infuriating and I’ll down vote every single one no matter the content

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My instance doesn’t even allow downvotes. That’s like 2 layers of irony lol.

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I had a nervous brea one time. Nearly shat me britches

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I think there’s something wrong with the tit

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Naw a “Nervous Brea” is just one of those old-timey diseases that they cured with a vibrator.

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The film has now been completely lost, there’s no surviving copies. It’s pretty crazy that something that important was just allowed to vanish from history.

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Awe man! I wanted to see it.

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Like her (Ms Gibson’s) acting career

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thanks for making me aware of this initiative, just signed it!

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(I was so sure that this was going to be a Lazy Town song)

Anyway, link to the initiative:

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This actually is a really good modern example and quite relevant!

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Seriously asking - why is it ‘this important’?
Like a still fresh testimony?

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The only still fresh testimony.

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I read it as

The only still fresh taxonomy.

:D

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It’s perhaps not the most historically important film, but it’s importance seem more than the cost would have been of preserving a few prints in different places.

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I’m having a nervous brea reading this comment thread

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read the desc.

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First brea, now desc - it’s a madhouse over here!!

/s

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Bro just hop on the joke and laugh with the rest of us, nobody is insulting you, everyone is just having fun with the weird truncation in the title

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Oh my bad now reading it differently thought it was an insult since it didn’t contain /s

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