. >> jim cameron and his movie of titanic did a great job of detailing the conventional wisdom of the day when the film was made he took great pains to reflect what was known about titanic, and there's extraordinary detail in the film. the society of naval architects and marine engineers did a forensic study of both titanics and lusitania, and they confirmed from their work the ingalls was 45 degrees. so you have a lot being put into this and say it's more like ten or 11 degrees and a maximum and here is our data to separate that from an independent engineering firm that did a computerized study of the rack. they really have to look at the study and the independent source of the material and that sort of thing. but the titaniacs command be concerned about titanic are interested in protecting their own position. >> they won't let the facts stand in the way of a good opinion. estimate given in the audience people get emotional -- >> 100 years later. >> it evokes a lot of emotion and not only the people like us that have been there but people who feel like they've been there whether it's

there is a lots of attention, a 100 anniversary always you know draws a lot of attention and with jim cameroneasing his film and the cover of national geographic, yes, there is lots going on, i am involved in a lot of different projects, come up to mystic aquarium and also one there and there, so yes, there is a tremendous amount of activity right now but naturally i am focusing on our film airing in philadelphia on national geographic channel, so i hope you will watch it. >> oh there is no question if i am not watching it it will be dvrnd and by the way i have -- >> -- fascinating -- >> -- in the future. the group that some would say has plundered the grave site of over a thousand people now has come in line with your thinking that this needs to be preserved and maintained as a hallowed spots for those souls and their surviving relatives and i think that is kind of a cool thing. >> well and senator kerry from massachusetts introduced a bill yesterday in the senate, so i am glad that people are finally coming around because in our film save the titanic we actually interview a group of people

jim. cameron writes can you tell jim not to fret it romney thinks he is just the right height. >> i used toward from another, because i have so many of them. >> this hour brought to you by go to meeting. go to gotomeeting.com, and type in the promo code stephanie. hi, scott in missouri. >> hi, stephanie. i'm calling you from the depth of rush limbaugh land. >> yikes. >> wow. >> this is a place where liberals have to walk small. if you even mention you are a liberal or a liberal at your employment your advances are done. >> wow. >> i just discovered you a couple of weeks ago, i didn't know you existed before -- >> i didn't exist. i'm like nicole kidman -- >> it's the power of tv. >> yeah, exactly. we were talking -- we were just talking about george bush giving us advice on what to do with this economy. >> here is what you got to do -- you got -- you got all of the surplus here. you got to get rid of it. you are paying too much tax. >> does anybody think the titanic reunion cruise not such a good idea. >> i want to have a cod piece and stand on the deck and say i'm king of the world again. >

if jim cameron is in the audience anywhere here -- no, it's funny you ask. know, obviously a lot of nonfiction books get turned into films. some underwater challenges with the swan, i think. certainly people see movies like the abyss, these kinds of challenges have been overcome. what's interesting to me, the kind of journalistic creative sense. i think in some ways -- i hate to say a better movie could be made at of this than the book, but you would have created places making a movie in a way that i didn't writing this book. when you have a couple of great characters like george bond who had described with pretty different characters, we learn of fair amount. you put that in some of the situations that there were in. you're able to create dialogue and bring of the characters into that situation. you have really quite a great set up for a movie, i think. so bring them on. in all seriousness for me a big part of this exercise has been getting the story of sealab out, this thing that somehow got lost an historical radar. anything that brings, like the book or

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reaction when jim called me was how wonderful because a whole new generation of people who have maybe never seen it on the big screen will have the opportunity. >> reporter: for years cameron'sywood for converting 2d films into 3d instead of just shooting it in that format to begin with making this decision a difficult one. >> doing it after the fact it's an awful lot of really difficult drudge work on the part of a lot of artists. we had 300 artists. we spent $18 million to do it. it took 60 weeks and i wasn't going to compromise it. had to look as good as if we had shot it in 3d, it's just such a hard tedious process by comparison to shooting it in 3d which is actually quite straightforward. ightforward. >> i think in terms of difficult of the big crowd scenes where you have to isolate of single character and there might be a thousand characters in the shot, it's a tremendous amount of work, but there's no such thing as an easy shot when you're doing a 3d conversion because even if it's a close-up let's say of kate or leo or any of the actors, you still have to

reaction when jim called me and said we're going to bring it out in 3-d was how wonderful because a whole new generation will have that opportunity to see it. >> reporter: for years, cameroneen outspoken against hollywood for converting 2-d films into 3-d instead of just shooting it in that format to begin with. >> doing it after the fact, it is an awful lot of really difficult drudge work on the part of a lot of artists. we had 300 artists. we spent $18 million to do it. it took 60 weeks. it had to look as good as if we had shot it in 3-d. it is just such a hard and tedious process by comparison to shooting in 3- d which is actually quite straightforward. i think in terms of difficulty, the big crowd scenes where you have to isolate every single character and there might be a thousand caches in the shot is a tremendous amount of work. there is no such thing as an easy shot when you are doing a 3-d conversion. even if it is university a close-up of kate or leo or any oft actors, you still have to sculpt the depth planes of their face. >> reporter: cameron realizes, to get people back in the theatre, the experience better be worth it. >> if you are going to do it right, an