National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Titanic was produced by Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox and released in December 1997. Directed by James Cameron, the film became the highest-grossing motion picture of its time and earned eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It remains a defining work of late-twentieth-century Hollywood filmmaking, blending large-scale disaster spectacle with an intimate romantic narrative set against the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

This cell, titled Jack and Rose Kiss, captures the quiet closeness between Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The three frames preserve the same tender moment across slightly varied exposures, offering a rare look at how a single shot existed on the original 35mm print.