Where was Titanic filmed?
JAMES Cameron's retelling of the Titanic's doomed voyage grossed over $2billion at the box office.
In order to bring the Oscar-winning film to the big screen, the massive vessel was replicated by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox.
Where was Titanic filmed?
While exhausting its $200million budget, Titanic was shot at several replicated film sets and historic sites such as:
- Baja Studios, Mexico
- Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia
- SS Jeremiah O'Brien at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
- Belmont Plaza Pool, Long Beach
- S.S. Lane Victory, San Pedro
Principal photography and filming for the 1997 blockbuster began on July 31, 1996, and concluded on March 23, 1997.
Baja Studios, Rosarita
A majority of Titanic's production was held at a movie studio complex in Mexico known as Baja Studios.
Located in Rosarito, Paramount Studios and 20th Century Fox reconstructed the Titanic in order to shoot the motion picture of the same name.
The replicated version of the ship was 10 to 15 times smaller than the actual vessel.
Some exterior shots and additional scenes were made with computer graphics.
Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth
Some of Titanic's scenes in its present timeline were filmed at Halifax Harbour in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Specifically, the beginning of the movie where Bill Paxton and Gloria Stuart's characters commence their search for the "missing" Heart of the Sea necklace was shot at the harbor.
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
"I wasn't scared. Half way through the first dive, we'd kind of plopped down on the deck of the ship, and there's this moment of, ‘My God. We're really at Titanic.’
"Then, there's a moment where all the adrenaline and exhilaration dissipates.
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"I remember the very first thing I saw. It was the robot that Robert Ballard used to go inside the Titanic.
"And they showed a little bit of one of the chandeliers handing there and I thought ‘My God... that's incredible. They're using this space technology to go into the past like a time machine,’ and something clicked right then."