▶ "One Step Beyond": Night of April 14th.

the amazing drama you're about to see is a matter of human record you may believe it or not but the real people who lived this story they believe it they know they took that one step beyond alcoa presents a new and unusual kind of television program that takes you just beyond the world in which you live alcoa presents aluminum from the world's leading producer aluminum company of america who creates new and unusual uses of this wondrous metal for the world in which you do live and now john newland takes you one step beyond here in this warm secure london house early april 1912 began the bizarre and untold chapter of a news story that would soon stun the civilized world in this library was an unread book coming events cast their shadows before them maybe remember this book we'll come back to it later it might shock you mother other father mother mother what is it what's wrong dear it was water dark water i was drowning i couldn't swim anymore i was drowning oh oh you just had one of those old-fashioned nightmares oh no i don't blame you all this excitement about the wedding no wonder if tank was there and i couldn't find him in the dark and the water closed in over me what does it mean nothing absolutely nothing and in four days you'll be married and in switzerland on your honeymoon the happiest bride that ever was and you can't drown in switzerland nobody ever does all they do is bang into trees on those foolish skis but drowning no it was all so clear to me i could feel the water was like ice now if you must dream i order you to dream only pleasant things eric your wedding dress and how happy you're going to be promised that's better now come on back and i couldn't find him i couldn't now that is enough darling and i shouldn't worry eric with this he's been trying so hard to make everything wonderful for you and no more nightmares good night [Music] good morning emily is the future mrs fowley about grace eric well i know it's early but i wanted to see what my wife would look like in the mornings ugly would you like some coffee darling i'd love some you like surprises don't you danny i love them come on surprise me it's about our honeymoon honeymoon we're not going to switzerland we're not where are we going we're going to america to new york city new york eric now why don't you ask me how we're going to get there swim row boat raft all right darling how that's how state room 111 b boat deck right next door to mr mrs john jacob astor no less on the maiden voyage of his royal majestic ship titanic southampton to new york six days at sea next tuesday let's see oh just a little sugar daddy i can't i i can't believe it i can hardly believe it myself but the office has connections oh you lucky children you sure you went from switzerland with switzerland will keep but the titanic our honeymoon that's once in a lifetime the paper's full of nothing but the titanic listen to this grace rms titanic the world's largest and most luxurious liner is writing a new and glamorous chapter in man's conquest of the sea by virtue of her five water tight compartments she's being hailed in marine engineering circles as the unsinkable ship her first passenger list makes her a floating home for royalty statesman international society and stars of the theater and the arts and and mr and mrs eric farley who are absolutely unknown and absolutely in love grace [Music] grace [Music] grace what is it darling what is this [Music] we can't go on that ship it happened again i dreamed i'm not darling i do wish you wouldn't i saw the sea coal sea there were people struggling in the water really thinking dying grace and then a huge ship slid down down now just a bad dream besides that ship couldn't be the titanic the titanic can't sink everyone knows that they saw a lifeboat tossing in the water there were letters on the side of it i saw so clearly i saw the word titanic on the side of the boat i did i did i did i did i did i did i did your intuition should tell you that what you see next is not a dream it can come true just what i've always wanted only my own deer aren't aggravated i would have guessed have you ever kept birds my darling neither have i ever thought of keeping birds neither have i and by all means write dear aunt agatha and tell her she's made us very very happy i will know all about last night and the night before that mother told you i suppose you think i have gone off my head one of the silly hysterical women i think you're a lot over tired and a little over imaginative but this isn't my imagination believe me i saw it i saw it now that is silly you don't believe what you see in your sleep i mean unless you're a gypsy great do you trust me you know i do and then spoil the happiest time of our whole lives just because of a bad dream everything's going to be all right i promise i'll take care of you always oh my god darling you know if i didn't know you so well i think that you'd fall in love with another man that you didn't want to marry me i couldn't love anybody but you [Applause] very well i believe you only remember if there ever is another man i was one of the best shots in the cold stream [Music] guard [Music] i think i will keep a bird after all did you have any particular species in mind oh a love bird of course or naturally lovely thank you darling what for the six most perfect days of my life [Music] how lovely you are and very young could be even better days [Music] you've forgiven me haven't you for those silly scenes i made i've forgotten the whole thing i'm glad what awful ridiculous dreams it wasn't a dream at all i was wide awake when i felt there was something wrong with the ship quite wrong i know you'll laugh and i don't blame him i was in my cabin this afternoon i imagine it was around four o'clock when i heard this terrible sound what kind of sound it was a terrible grinding sound as though the ship had suddenly struck some immovable object the whole boat seemed to tremble with the impact tell me by any chance did you hear anything or feel anything no no i heard nothing like that i'm happy to say you know it's probably your imagination or uh more likely indigestion now why don't you see the ship's doctor he's a good man i'm told i'm all right physically it's just the first time in my life i'm i'm afraid i'm afraid even for the next few hours i don't know what i'm afraid of says there was something in my my soul you know if i was a hard-headed realist now at home i think i'd call on my minister as the mighty ship race through the atlantic night there were others far away who felt dark premonitions of disaster for one a methodist minister in winnipeg canada four six excuse me dr morgan but it's nearly time for the service mrs parsons i'd like the congregation to sing hymn number four four six tonight but dr morgan the hymns for tonight are already posted in the church and the organist please four four six i didn't know that was one of your favorite hymns it isn't i don't even know the words i simply know that we must sing it tonight here father while we pray to thee for those in peril on the sea better we should be praying for our farmers after winter like this [Music] [Applause] on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what is it darling nothing you're cold come to bed at precisely the same time in new york city still a thousand miles away a magazine illustrator named harry teller felt a weird compulsion i don't know what's wrong with me harry what's this i thought you were supposed to be drawing pretty girls in the new spring styles you'll never make the deadline now i don't know how it happened i was i don't know helpless something seemed to be guiding my hand i can't explain it you're tired you've been working too hard now come on no no it's not that harry let's go to bed this drawing it's awful i don't know who would want it do you know something this is the best work you've ever done i never seen you do anything like this before all of this detail in here and harry what is it your hands are like ice the water in the drawing was cold icy cold if you listen carefully we will prove our ability to transfer our thoughts to you [Music] [Music] w do it great great grace grace what happened what's the matter everything's all right now you come out to bed i mean stand i was sleeping someone's screaming hurry that we need warm clothes and i i must what's wrong with me i must be losing my mind oh i'm losing my mind you're driving me out of mine you know look i'm not john jacob astor or member remember the nobility i've saved for two years for this trip wanting it to be a perfect honeymoon and have it spoiled by such childish nonsense i'm i'm sorry eric i'm sorry all right darling you'll forgive me i just don't make a habit of fishing my best clothes on the floor [Music] [Applause] [Music] get ahead [Applause] [Music] engine seems to start you were right oh stewart sir the engine seemed to have stopped what was it there was some report of an iceberg sir the campaign stopped the vessel so just to be on the safe side you know what an incredible ship what service they run out of ice at the bar so what happens we get an iceberg good fresh ice that's what i like it's all over the deck have a drink chum no thank you never seen an iceberg darling should we go and have a look that's a claddy of a wrapper good morning captain go to your lifeboat station please dress warmly now there's no need to panic just take it nice and easy it's just a precaution darling remember what the captain said tonight the shift that nothing in the world could sink [Music] what are you doing trying to impress an iceberg with your jewels custom case am i not the coming back oh come on easy does it now women and children are late and i'll fall in later there we go right there's a little one [Music] there's young [Applause] [Music] you go with the other women in vote four [Music] i'm sorry i love our marriage all six days five hours and twenty minutes i even loved our first fight you'll ever have another bad dream i'll listen to you every word come come adam it's all right sorry [Music] good night [Music] all the way [Music] eric finally never came back to this house over 1500 people perished that dreadful night aboard the titanic eric farley was among them you've seen some of the unexplained supernatural events surrounding the life and death of a great ship now do you remember this book it's a novel published in 1898 14 years before the ill-fated vessel was even dreamed of the title futility its author morgan robertson it's a story about the largest liner ever built carrying on its maiden voyage the rich and great of the world then on an april night it struck an iceberg the vessel in this book was seventy thousand tons the titanic sixty six thousand times the length of the ship in these pages eight hundred feet the titanic eight hundred and eighty two feet both made twenty five knots both carried about three thousand passengers both liners had life votes for only a fraction of that number and both were considered unthinkable oh one more thing the author called his ship the titan in a moment something else to think about oh about next week well it begins with a silly argument about this hat and it ends when two people in peril miles apart discover an amazing kind of communication an incredible way of finding each other as together they take that one step beyond [Music] you

Channel: One-Step-Beyond

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Keywords: One Step Beyond

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Length: 25min 59sec (1559 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2016