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In 1977, Ken Marschall became a consultant on the film, helping to perfect the film's 55½-foot Titanic model, the largest replica of the ship yet built. Ken's persistence for accuracy made sure that every rivet was placed at the exact spot on the hull. By the time the model was finished and ready to be shipped to Malta, Ken had made the model exact to the actual liner. That would change by the time the model was ready for filming. The producers of the film made some modifications to the foredeck that would help make the model and the liner, Athinai, look seamless. They added 2 long pipes in between the crow's nest and added a huge vent on the bow that was on the Athinai. This of course made Ken furious after all the hard work that he done to help perfect the model. And rightfully so, anyone who knows the design of the Titanic would have noticed it. Biography-Ken Marschall is an internationally acclaimed maritime artist best known for his magnificent paintings of the Titanic. The accurate detail of his work is informed by over thirty years of research on the ship and a vast personal archive of Titanic reference material. Marschall's images have appeared on the covers of both Time and Life magazines and within the pages of National Geographic. His haunting depictions of the Titanic wreck were a prominent feature of Robert Ballard's international bestseller The Discovery of the Titanic and the accompanying children's book, Exploring the Titanic. In 1992 he collaborated with historian Don Lynch to create the best-selling Titanic: An Illustrated History. This book provided inspiration for James Cameron in the making of his blockbuster movie, and Marschall was the visual consultant for the film. He has also been a member of Dr. Ballard's expeditions, visting by submarine the wreck of the Lusitania as well as that of the Titanic's sister ship, Britannic. In the summer of 2001, Ken Marschall was a part of James Cameron's Titanic expedition for a full-scale High Definition 3-D exploration of the wreck. It will be first time ever that the wreck will filmed in such detail and to places that have never been filmed in any previous expedition. Filmography-Thanks goes to the Internet Movie Database again. Official Site
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In the late summer of 2001, James Cameron, the director-producer of the highest-grossing picture in Hollywood history, led a new deep-diving expedition to the wreck of the lost liner Titanic. With him was a team of underwater explorers that included the artist Ken Marschall, the historian Don Lynch, and two actors from the movie, Bill Paxton and Lewis Abernathy (who played Brock Lovett and Lewis Bodine). Their equipment included state-of-the-art digital 3d cameras a pair of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), and a specially built deep-water lighting platform that illuminated the fabled ship as never before. In a series of historic dives they filmed deep inside the ghostly liner, obtaining haunting, never-before-seen images. In spring 2003, this remarkable journey into the heart of the Titanic will be presented coast-to-coast in a digital 3D giant screen film, Ghosts of The Abyss. For those who will be drawn anew to the story of the Titanic, as well as for those who have never stopped being fascinated by the ship's tragic fate, Ghosts of the Abyss will be a revelation in pictures and words. Cameron compellingly describes just what keeps him returning to the Titanic, and the meticulous journals kept during the dives from a dramatic adventure narrative. But what will truly astonish are new, incredibly vivid images from within the ship's staterooms and public rooms, matched with archival images from 1912 and new paintings and diagrams--a "then and now gallery" that captures as never before the history, the drama, and the legend of the Titanic.
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