Short191812 min720×480

Winsor McCay (1918) The Sinking of the Lusitania

Winsor McCay

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Animated film The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. Two submarines torpedo the RMS Lusitania in 1915, killing 1 200. Probably the first animated documentary, this was the longest animated film made until Disney's feature-length films of the 1930s.

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Public domain, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.
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Public domain
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Winsor McCay
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