 Newsreels on the "Titanic" disaster were hampered by the fact that hardly any footage of the ship existed.A few seconds of film of "Titanic"s launching on 31 May 1911 were shot in Belfast by local company Films Limited, and the Topical Budget Company appears to have had some footage – now lost – of the ship at Southampton.Other than that, all that existed were photographs, which were of only limited use in a motion picture.