The Sinking of the Lusitania

This film, The Sinking of the Lusitania, is an animated documentary produced by Windsor McCay in 1918. It recounts the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania in 1915 by a German submarine. As there were 123 Americans on board who went down with the ship, the sinking and the controversy afterwords eventually led America to intervene in the conflict in Europe. This film is the earliest surviving animated documentary and was extremely advanced in technique for its time, it was quite some time before other animators could produce work to the quality of McCays, who was clearly the king of the early days of animation.

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