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Undertake an analysis of a film (Titanic) taking on the Technological Film History Approach Allen & Gomery (1985 p.37) suggest that technological film history “involves the study of the origins and development of the technology that makes possible the creation and presentation of movies”. What really makes a film spectacular and believable is the amount of technology that is used to capture and re-create images and feelings of the past. Without aspects such as special cameras, lenses, projection apparatus, lighting and processing equipment, some would say that there “would be no cinema” Allen & Gomery (1985 p.37). With the technological film history approach, a lot of questions have been raised such as in Allen & Gomery (1985) “How did this technology come to be? Why did changes in cinematic technology occur (such as synchronous sound, more versatile film stocks, colour processes, wide screen and other) and why they appear at specific historical moments? How did the technological state of cinema at any given time condition the ways in which the movies could be used as art form, economic product, and communications medium?” Allen & Gomery (1985 p.38). It has been observed since the early twentieth century, that Amer