Titanic Tuesdays Speaker and Author Lecture Series

May 8, June 12, July 10, August 14, September 11, 2012 (Lectures begin at 7pm)
Henry Ford Museum

Henry Ford Museum stays open until 9 p.m. for an after-hours opportunity to see Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and take a deeper dive into Titanic. Get the stories behind the story through a wonderfully diverse range of talks featuring historians, authors and film directors.

The story of the sinking is legendary; now experience the wonder and tragedy of this ill-fated Ship on a journey through Titanic… Show more history. Explore the limited-engagement Exhibition and hear presentations from historian Edward Tenner, filmmaker Stephen Low, underwater photographer Tony Gramer, archeologist Ken Vrana, author Bruce Beveridge and Titanic Historical Society member Ron Bartsch of The Henry Ford.

Entry to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition is timed. Guests will be allowed to enter only at their selected ticket times. The estimated length of time required to tour the Exhibition is 90 minutes. The final entry to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition is at 9 p.m. during Titanic Tuesdays.

May 8
Making the IMAX® Film “TITANICA”
Award-winning filmmaker Stephen Low shares his experience making the IMAX® film “TITANICA.” Shot during the expedition of the Russian research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh to the North Atlantic, the team made 17 dives in two state-of-the-art submarines. A self-proclaimed “ocean freak,” Low is known as a hands-on director. As a diver and adventurer, he understands the demands of the IMAX® format like few other directors. Bringing the Titanic to the big screen has been Low’s dream since its discovery in 1985.

June 12
The Philadelphia Experience: Time Takes Its Toll
Tony Gramer is an adventurer, history buff, shipwreck sleuth and noted underwater photographer. He narrates this extraordinary film, which follows the search for and discovery of an 18th-century Great Lakes schooner. Gramer is also on the board of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit, Michigan.

July 10
Michigan Connections to R.M.S. Titanic
Ken Vrana compares the Great Lakes to the bottom of the Atlantic and the discovery and exploration of the Titanic wreck. Vrana worked as consulting underwater archaeologist for both the 2004 and 2010 Titanic expeditions. Here, he takes us on a firsthand exploration of the famed ship. Vrana is co-director and co-principal investigator of the Titanic Mapping Project for Premier Exhibitions, Inc. He was also the project coordinator for the first civilian expedition to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1989.

August 14
The Ship Magnificent
Bruce Beveridge is an honorary lifetime member of the British Titanic Society, the Titanic Historical Society and the Irish Titanic Historical Society. He is also a founding member and trustee of the Titanic Research and Modeling Association, and was the technical adviser on the plans, prints and models released by Hahn Titanic Plans. His books include, Titanic – The Ship Magnificent Volumes I and II and Olympic & Titanic.

September 11
R.M.S. Titanic: A Century in Cinema
Ron Bartsch is the senior projection manager for The Henry Ford IMAX® Theatre. Bartsch is an avid Titanic historian, memorabilia collector and Titanic Historical Society member since 1984. He combines a passion for film and the legendary liner to show how the Titanic disaster was portrayed on the big screen over the last 100 years. Long before James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster movie, the Titanic’s story has been retold in no less than 12 feature films from 1912 to 2010. From foreign to American films, silent films to talkies, black-and-white to color films — even musicals — the subject of the Titanic has always been a popular one for filmmakers and moviegoers alike.

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