I Just Learned A Fact About The Movie "Titanic" That Will Stick With Me Forever, Like, It Took 24 Years For Me To Learn This Is How They Filmed The Sinking

    All these years and I never realized it.

    Matt Stopera
    by Matt Stopera

    BuzzFeed Staff

    So, I love a good Titanic fact.

    Smiling older people sitting on a couch with a laptop
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    I am who I am because of that movie!

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    I was scrolling through TikTok and came across a behind-the-scenes video while thinking I had seen it all!

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    I had...not.

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    This was the TikTok, which was posted by @fitzdizzel48:

    You're telling me that's a miniature hallway?!

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    WHAT?

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    For those who can't watch the TikTok, you remember this specific scene from the movie?

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    Well, it was always a miniature set.

    A man stares down in a miniature hallway
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    It was basically a mini dollhouse.

    A man places props in the hallway
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    And they had only one opportunity to flood it.

    A man looks at a tiny chair
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    And apparently the trick worked because for 24 years, I thought this was a real movie set:

    A picture of the hallway being filmed with water
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    Movie magic! Go figure.

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    Bye!

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