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The Jesuit's image of 6-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden playing with his spinning top on the promenade, watched by his father Frederic, is one of the most famous of the collection.

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22 posted on 04/15/2012 2:28:04 PM PDT by NYer (He who hides in his heart the remembrance of wrongs is like a man who feeds a snake on his chest. St)
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The Jesuit's image of 6-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden playing with his spinning top on the promenade, watched by his father Frederic, is one of the most famous of the collection.

Indeed it is.

James Cameron, in his movie 'Titanic', worked this photo into the action. This scene is recreated when (the fictional) Jack Dawson sneaks into First Class to see the (equally fictional) Rose. You'll see him clamber over the railing in the background, and swipe the coat that you see draped over the deck chair behind the stanchion.

As a Titanic buff of 40 years or so, I sat bolt upright at that point- I recognized it instantly. :-)

28 posted on 04/15/2012 4:05:10 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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