1. William MacQuitty was a British film producer and a writer and photographer.
12 Facts About William MacQuitty
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William MacQuitty was educated at Rockport School and at Campbell College.
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William MacQuitty had seen Titanic being launched on 31 May 1911 and still remembered the occasion vividly.
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William MacQuitty watched the maiden voyage departure the following year.
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William MacQuitty attained employment with the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, at the age of 18, where he remained until 1939.
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William MacQuitty filmed T S Eliot reading Little Gidding, and Stanley Spencer and his crucifix painting in Cookham churchyard.
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William MacQuitty was amused and flattered in 1997 when James Cameron, who had just completed his own epic on Titanic, took the trouble to thank him personally for his vision in creating A Night to Remember and causing a "ripple effect through modern culture" which he said had partly inspired his own film.
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In 1959, William MacQuitty helped to found Ulster Television, becoming its first managing director and running the station, creating a link with Queen's University, Belfast, and showing Britain's first adult education program, Midnight Oil, foreshadowing the Open University.
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William MacQuitty's idea was to save the temples, leaving them where they were and building a dam around them, containing crystal-clear filtered water kept at the same height as the Nile water outside.
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William MacQuitty envisaged that in time the dam would be outdated by atomic power and the water level lowered, restoring the temples to their original state.
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William MacQuitty's plan has always been regarded as supremely elegant and probably the best in terms of conservation of the temples.
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William MacQuitty enjoyed multiple career paths and amassed a huge tally in what he referred to as "The Banquet of Life".