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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{{Underline|SPECIAL FEATURE.}}
{{Center|{{Xxx-larger|THE SINKING OF<br />
THE "LUSITANIA."}}<br />
{{Smaller|An amazing moving pen picture by}}<br />
WINSOR McCAY.<br />
{{Smaller block|THE TRANSATLANTIC FILM C{{Sup|{{Smaller|O}}}} L{{Sup|{{Smaller|TD}}}}<br /><br />
JOHN D. TIPPETT.{{Gap}} MANAGING DIRECTOR.}}}}
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00:11
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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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00:26
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''Mr. Beach giving Winsor McCay the details of the sinking—necessary for the work to follow.''
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00:46
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''Twenty-five thousand drawings had to be made and photographed one at a time.''
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01:04
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''The first work done was the moving sea.''
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01:18
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''From here on you are looking at the first record on the sinking of the Lusitania.''
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01:27
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''The Lusitania carrying more than 2000 passengers of whom 200 were Americans, sailed for Liverpool, England, May 1st, 1915.''
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01:43
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''Warnings had been published in the New York newspapers by the German embassy, but they were regarded lightly, and all on board felt safe.''
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02:06
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''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.''
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02:47
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''At noon, May 7th, the Lusitania sighted the coast of Ireland, nearing the end of her journey.''
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03:15
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''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.''
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04:31
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''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—''
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04:50
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{{Center|{{X-larger|{{sc|Elbert Hubbard}},}}<br />
MODERN PHILOSOPHER AND AUTHOR.}}
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05:02
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{{Center|{{X-larger|{{sc|Charles Klein}},}}<br />
THE DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN PLAYRIGHT.}}
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05:14
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{{Center|{{X-larger|{{sc|Alfred G. Vanderbilt}}}}<br />
THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN}}
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05:26
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{{Center|{{X-larger|{{sc|Charles Frohman}},}}<br />
THE WORLD'S FOREMOST THEATRICAL MANAGER.<br />
{{Smaller|WHO FACED DEATH SMILING AND UTTERED TO THOSE ABOUT HIM JUST BEFORE THE END CAME, HIS IMMORTAL OBSERVATION THAT}} {{Larger|{{sc|''"Death is but a beautiful adventure of Life."''}}}}}}
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05:57
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''Germany, once a great and powerful nation, had done a dastardly deed in a dastardly way.''
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06:38
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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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07:10
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''The vessel righted herself after the shock and began to sink by the bow.''
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08:31
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''No warning was given—no mercy was shown.''
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09:38
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''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.''
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11:10
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''Fifteen minutes after the first torpedo struck, the Lusitania had disappeared beneath the waves.''
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12:00
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''The man who fired the shot was decorated for it by the Kaiser!—AND YET THEY TELL US NOT TO HATE THE HUN.''
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