Deatharrow5 (September 7, 2008 at 7:52 pm)

I've never seen a movie made this early in time. How'd you get this?

yelloworangered (August 29, 2008 at 4:15 am)

Really? If it's a live action film, how did they do the part where the moon is crying? Was that a glass shot combined with a person's face?

HellsDonutHouse (August 27, 2008 at 7:18 pm)

Actually, the rocket in the moon's eye is from George Melies' "A Trip To The Moon," which is a live action film.

yelloworangered (August 15, 2008 at 7:25 pm)

Thank you so much for posting this very interesting cartoon. I am going to look more into early animation -- I thought it was all Mickey Mouse and rockets sticking in the Moon's eye (stop-motion, I know). This was very a very moving "report" on the sinking, thank you again.

RussianTigr (August 12, 2008 at 5:10 am)

he would go crazy, as an old man, he lashed out at the younger animators saying that he had developed and given them a great new art form which they had cheapened and turned into a crude money-making business done by hack artists.

myhatsonfire (June 26, 2008 at 7:06 pm)

The second explosion wouldn't have been as big if it wasn't fueled by ammunition being smuggled in the ships hold. Over 1000 people actually died on the Lusitania.

darcwiz (June 8, 2008 at 2:21 pm)

One of the fathers of animation, Mr. McCay. I bet he'd go crazy if he saw me and my generation animating in 3D. lolI'll forever be greatful to these guys.

Chickenpainter111 (May 28, 2008 at 2:47 am)

damn pity that the only surviving print of the sinking of the Lusitania is decayed. i saw a cell from the film that is in amazing detail. *sigh* if only.

woodears (May 22, 2008 at 3:49 pm)

The Lusitania was hit by one torpedo. The coal dust in her bunkers exploded for the 'death blow'.Winsor McCay's film is all the more astonishing in that it was based entirely on the survivor's descriptions; there was no reference footage, no instantaneous broadacasting. Yes this was the first propaganda animation, but it was not sponsored by the American government. McCay paid for it himself.

intigfx (May 22, 2008 at 1:42 am)

funny that about a century later this still stirs controversy. I guess it shows McKay did his job well. I don't care that it's propaganda; this was a major breakthrough in the history of animation, and a wonderful piece of art.