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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


00:09

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.


00:11

Winsor McCay, originator and inventor of Animated Cartoons, decides to draw a historical record of the crime that shocked Humanity.


00:26

Mr. Beach giving Winsor McCay the details of the sinking—necessary for the work to follow.


00:46

Twenty-five thousand drawings had to be made and photographed one at a time.


01:04

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.


01:27

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."


05:57

Germany, once a great and powerful nation, had done a dastardly deed in a dastardly way.


06:38

While the life boats were being lowered a second torpedo crashed into the engine rooms. This was the death blow.


07:10

The vessel righted herself after the shock and began to sink by the bow.


08:31

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.