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* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse. The prologue explains how some 25,000 drawings were required to make the film.
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* DatedHistory: The film has the Germans torpedoing the ''Lusitania'' twice. This was a widely believed version of the story, due to a second, massive explosion after the first torpedo hit that sent the ship to the bottom. It was also the version advanced by the British government, which sought to maximize propaganda value. However, all primary evidence--testimony from the submarine crew, intercepted communications from the submarine, testimony from ''Lusitania'' survivors--indicates that the ship was only torpedoed once. The second explosion has never been fully explained but is now believed to have been a massive steam explosion due to damage from the torpedo.
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* HistoryMarchesOn: The film has the Germans torpedoing the ''Lusitania'' twice. This was a widely believed version of the story, due to a second, massive explosion after the first torpedo hit that sent the ship to the bottom. It was also the version advanced by the British government, which sought to maximize propaganda value. However, all primary evidence--testimony from the submarine crew, intercepted communications from the submarine, testimony from ''Lusitania'' survivors--indicates that the ship was only torpedoed once. The second explosion has never been fully explained but is now believed to have been a massive steam explosion due to damage from the torpedo.
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* TheXOfY: ''The Sinking of the Lusitania''
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* DeathOfAChild: The last shot of the film shows a mother and child drowning.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. The last shot of the film shows a mother and child drowning.
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-> "The ''"The man who fired the shot was decorated for it by the Kaiser! ''And yet they tell us not to hate the Hun''."
AND YET THEY TELL US NOT TO HATE THE HUN."''
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. The last shot of the film shows a mother and child going to the bottom.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. The last shot of the film shows a mother and child going to the bottom.drowning.
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* MediumBlending: A live-action prologue followed by an animated short.
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* MediumBlending: A live-action prologue followed by an animated short.short.
* WartimeCartoon: The first ever, actually started before American entry into the war, but certainly appropriate by the time it was released in 1918.
* WartimeCartoon: The first ever, actually started before American entry into the war, but certainly appropriate by the time it was released in 1918.
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* HistoryMarchesOn: The film has the Germans torpedoing the ''Lusitania'' twice. This was a widely believed version of the story, due to a second, massive explosion after the first torpedo hit that sent the ship to the bottom. It was also the version advanced by the British government, which sought to maximize propaganda value. However, all primary evidence--testimony from the submarine crew, intercepted communications from the submarine, testimony from ''Lusitania'' survivors--indicates that the ship was only torpedoed once. The second explosion has never been fully explained but is believed to have been caused by a steam explosion due to damage from the torpedo.
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* HistoryMarchesOn: The film has the Germans torpedoing the ''Lusitania'' twice. This was a widely believed version of the story, due to a second, massive explosion after the first torpedo hit that sent the ship to the bottom. It was also the version advanced by the British government, which sought to maximize propaganda value. However, all primary evidence--testimony from the submarine crew, intercepted communications from the submarine, testimony from ''Lusitania'' survivors--indicates that the ship was only torpedoed once. The second explosion has never been fully explained but is now believed to have been caused by a massive steam explosion due to damage from the torpedo.
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''The Sinking of the Lusitania'' is a 1918 animated short film (12 minutes) by Creator/WinsorMcKay.
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''The Sinking of the Lusitania'' is a 1918 animated short film (12 minutes) byCreator/WinsorMcKay.
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Winsor [=McKay=] was a newspaper cartoonist and a pioneer of animation, having previously made the animated shorts ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' and ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur''. [=McKay=], who was outraged by the sinking, spent his own money making an animated short that took two years of work. The animated portion of the short, 9 1/2 minutes after a live-action prologue, was the longest piece of animation ever created at the time. It was the first use of cel animation by [=McKay=], who had done his previous cartoons completely by hand.
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Winsor [=McKay=] [=McCay=] was a newspaper cartoonist and a pioneer of animation, having previously made the animated shorts ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' and ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur''. [=McKay=], [=McCay=], who was outraged by the sinking, spent his own money making an animated short that took two years of work. The animated portion of the short, 9 1/2 minutes after a live-action prologue, was the longest piece of animation ever created at the time. It was the first use of cel animation by [=McKay=], [=McCay=], who had done his previous cartoons completely by hand.
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* CreatorCameo: As with his earlier animated shorts, [=McKay=] included a live-action prologue with himself in which the creation of the film is shown. It takes up about the first 2 1/2 minutes.
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* CreatorCameo: As with his earlier animated shorts, [=McKay=] [=McCay=] included a live-action prologue with himself in which the creation of the film is shown. It takes up about the first 2 1/2 minutes.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: Probably the first ever animated work that escaped the ghetto, something that is still exceedingly rare in American animation a century later.
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* TheDeadHaveNames: The short names four "men of worldwide prominence" who went down with the ''Lusitania'': theater producer Charles Frohman, writer Elbert Hubbard, playwright Charles Klein, and Alfred Vanderbilt of the super-rich Vanderbilt family.
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''The Sinking of the Lusitania'' is a 1918 animated short film (12 minutes) by Creator/WinsorMcKay.
It is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, depicting the sinking of RMS ''Lusitania'' on May 7, 1915, a turning point of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The ''Lusitania'' was torpedoed by a German U-boat, having entered the maritime exclusion zone in which Germany had declared British shipping to be subject to attack. It sank in only 18 minutes. Although the sinking did ''not'' cause American entry into the war (the U.S. declaration of war came two years later), the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, turned American opinion against the Germans and for the Allies.
Winsor [=McKay=] was a newspaper cartoonist and a pioneer of animation, having previously made the animated shorts ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' and ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur''. [=McKay=], who was outraged by the sinking, spent his own money making an animated short that took two years of work. The animated portion of the short, 9 1/2 minutes after a live-action prologue, was the longest piece of animation ever created at the time. It was the first use of cel animation by [=McKay=], who had done his previous cartoons completely by hand.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: Probably the first ever animated work that escaped the ghetto, something that is still exceedingly rare in American animation a century later.
* CreatorCameo: As with his earlier animated shorts, [=McKay=] included a live-action prologue with himself in which the creation of the film is shown. It takes up about the first 2 1/2 minutes.
* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse. The prologue explains how some 25,000 drawings were required to make the film.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: American theatrical producer Charles Frohman, killed in the sinking, is said to have "faced death smiling" and is quoted as saying right before the ship went down that "Death is but a beautiful adventure of life."
* HistoryMarchesOn: The film has the Germans torpedoing the ''Lusitania'' twice. This was a widely believed version of the story, due to a second, massive explosion after the first torpedo hit that sent the ship to the bottom. It was also the version advanced by the British government, which sought to maximize propaganda value. However, all primary evidence--testimony from the submarine crew, intercepted communications from the submarine, testimony from ''Lusitania'' survivors--indicates that the ship was only torpedoed once. The second explosion has never been fully explained but is believed to have been caused by a steam explosion due to damage from the torpedo.
* InfantImmortality: Averted. The last shot of the film shows a mother and child going to the bottom.
* MediumBlending: A live-action prologue followed by an animated short.
It is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, depicting the sinking of RMS ''Lusitania'' on May 7, 1915, a turning point of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The ''Lusitania'' was torpedoed by a German U-boat, having entered the maritime exclusion zone in which Germany had declared British shipping to be subject to attack. It sank in only 18 minutes. Although the sinking did ''not'' cause American entry into the war (the U.S. declaration of war came two years later), the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, turned American opinion against the Germans and for the Allies.
Winsor [=McKay=] was a newspaper cartoonist and a pioneer of animation, having previously made the animated shorts ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' and ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur''. [=McKay=], who was outraged by the sinking, spent his own money making an animated short that took two years of work. The animated portion of the short, 9 1/2 minutes after a live-action prologue, was the longest piece of animation ever created at the time. It was the first use of cel animation by [=McKay=], who had done his previous cartoons completely by hand.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: Probably the first ever animated work that escaped the ghetto, something that is still exceedingly rare in American animation a century later.
* CreatorCameo: As with his earlier animated shorts, [=McKay=] included a live-action prologue with himself in which the creation of the film is shown. It takes up about the first 2 1/2 minutes.
* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse. The prologue explains how some 25,000 drawings were required to make the film.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: American theatrical producer Charles Frohman, killed in the sinking, is said to have "faced death smiling" and is quoted as saying right before the ship went down that "Death is but a beautiful adventure of life."
* HistoryMarchesOn: The film has the Germans torpedoing the ''Lusitania'' twice. This was a widely believed version of the story, due to a second, massive explosion after the first torpedo hit that sent the ship to the bottom. It was also the version advanced by the British government, which sought to maximize propaganda value. However, all primary evidence--testimony from the submarine crew, intercepted communications from the submarine, testimony from ''Lusitania'' survivors--indicates that the ship was only torpedoed once. The second explosion has never been fully explained but is believed to have been caused by a steam explosion due to damage from the torpedo.
* InfantImmortality: Averted. The last shot of the film shows a mother and child going to the bottom.
* MediumBlending: A live-action prologue followed by an animated short.
