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 won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It remains a defining achievement of late-twentieth-century cinema, blending large-scale production with an intimate romantic narrative set against the 1912 maritime disaster.

This cell captures the Jack Sketching Rose sequence, presenting three consecutive 35mm frames of Jack Dawson's hand moving across the page as a portrait takes shape. Leonardo DiCaprio's hands are the focal point throughout, the pencil caught mid-stroke in each frame, preserving a quiet, character-defining moment from one of cinema's most recognized scenes.