The Sinking of the Lusitania

The liner, the torpedo, the second explosion, people going over the side, and the smoke, drawn by hand: twenty-five thousand drawings on cels. Winsor McCay had drawn dinosaurs and mosquitoes, and this is the first animated documentary and the first animated film that is not a joke. It took him nearly two years, and the war had four months left when it opened. 1918, twelve minutes.