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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/9oRo on 2024-05-02 18:22:29.

Original Title: TIL that the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered just 31 days after the event. It starred Dorothy Gibson, an actual survival of the tragedy, who co-wrote the script and played a fictionalized version of herself. It’s now lost, as the last known prints were destroyed in a fire