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The Sinking of the Lusitania · ASF

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Winsor McCay · 1918 · US · 10:49

Twenty-two months of work, and the first animated documentary ever made. McCay reconstructs an event no camera recorded, which is still the argument for animation as journalism.

TECHNIQUE: Hand-drawn animation
GENRE: classic, documentary, silent

LICENCE AND SOURCE

Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Source: https://archive.org/details/the-sinking-of-the-lusitania-1918
Carried as: Embedded from the authorised source — ASF does not host a copy

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