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File: Winsor McCay (1918) The Sinking of the Lusitania.webm
Author: Winsor McCay
Publisher: Universal Films
Year: 1918
PD: PD/US|1934
Note: an American silent animated short film, the longest work of animation at that time. Selected for preservation by The National Film Registry.
Cat: Films with historical settings, War film, Propaganda film, Cartoons, Silent film
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SPECIAL FEATURE.
THE SINKING OF
THE "LUSITANIA."
An amazing moving pen picture by
WINSOR McCAY.
THE TRANSATLANTIC FILM CO LTD
JOHN D. TIPPETT. MANAGING DIRECTOR.
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Winsor McCay, originator and inventor of Animated Cartoons, decides to draw a historical record of the crime that shocked Humanity.
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Mr. Beach giving Winsor McCay the details of the sinking—necessary for the work to follow.
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Twenty-five thousand drawings had to be made and photographed one at a time.
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The first work done was the moving sea.
01:18
From here on you are looking at the first record on the sinking of the Lusitania.
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The Lusitania carrying more than 2000 passengers of whom 200 were Americans, sailed for Liverpool, England, May 1st, 1915.
01:43
Warnings had been published in the New York newspapers by the German embassy, but they were regarded lightly, and all on board felt safe.
02:06
Germany, which had already benumbed the world with its wholesale killing, then sent its instrument of crime to perform a more treacherous and cowardly offense.
02:47
At noon, May 7th, the Lusitania sighted the coast of Ireland, nearing the end of her journey.
03:15
Two hours later, while steaming at 18 knots, the Lusitania was struck almost directly under the Captain's bridge by the first of two torpedoes fired by the German Submarine U-39.
04:31
After the first torpedo which struck there were scenes of pitiful partings. 1150 persons perished—114 being Americans. Among these were men of world wide prominence, including—
04:50
Elbert Hubbard,
MODERN PHILOSOPHER AND AUTHOR.
05:02
Charles Klein,
THE DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN PLAYRIGHT.
05:14
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN
05:26
Charles Frohman,
THE WORLD'S FOREMOST THEATRICAL MANAGER.
WHO FACED DEATH SMILING AND UTTERED TO THOSE ABOUT HIM JUST BEFORE THE END CAME, HIS IMMORTAL OBSERVATION THAT "Death is but a beautiful adventure of Life."
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Germany, once a great and powerful nation, had done a dastardly deed in a dastardly way.
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While the life boats were being lowered a second torpedo crashed into the engine rooms. This was the death blow.
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The vessel righted herself after the shock and began to sink by the bow.
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No warning was given—no mercy was shown.
09:38
The babe that clung to his mother's breast cried out to the world—TO AVENGE the most violent cruelty that was ever perpetrated upon an unsuspecting and innocent people.
11:10
Fifteen minutes after the first torpedo struck, the Lusitania had disappeared beneath the waves.
12:00
The man who fired the shot was decorated for it by the Kaiser!—AND YET THEY TELL US NOT TO HATE THE HUN.