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I’m an ocean liner enthusiast & I love classic animation, so i’m kind of surprised that after hearing about it so many times, i’m only just now watching this- while it lacks the human aspect that would make most audiences relate to it, i’ve always seen ships as human-like, with souls & such, & to me this is a beautiful depiction of the tragic ending to the ship who was once the pride of the Cunard fleet. I feel this limerick written by the ship’s purser when she took the eastbound Blue Ribband is a perfect way to remember the ship who was lovingly nicknamed “Lucy”: “There was a young man in Westphalia, Who had charge of much costly regalia, To his sweetheart he said, ‘My dear, when we’re wed, We’ll call our first girl Lucy Tania.’”

This animation is excellent in every way ,a high end piece of work and as are his cartoons with their aesthetic beauty. Windsor McCay's art is for the ages and should be remembered.

This cartoon is 113 years old

Probably this was first Universal cartoon

A tragedy offered up in the best possible way in its time. Couple this illustrated film with the fact ocean liners were the fastest conveyance to get between continents at the time; coal fired boilers and all. The impact of the "Lusitania" being sacrificed in war, shortly after the loss of "Titanic" in 1912, had the same impact as the loss of the space shuttles and missing MH370 flight. Thank you for sharing the film.

I though that the U-20 not U-39 was the uboat that sink the Lusitania 🤔

Gotta be the oldest animation I’ve seen

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It's rather appropriate that one of the oldest animated films is of a dinosaur.

35mm print scan

I wonder what animals he studied for Gertie's movements

the lusitania ganna sinking omg😶

no its winsor mccay

110 years !! 🤯

Most copies I've seen show the bow on the right during the torpedo hit and sinking. Did this transfer get that reversed somehow? www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01208297/

Gertie the Dinosaur is my comfort character

One of the most historically significant propaganda pieces in American history. An incredible work. McKay effectively captured what the sinking of a large ship would look like purely through his art and imagination.

Fun fact about the Lusitania: An incredibly well respected art dealer was onboard the vessel when she went down. He had one of the forward cabins... (i want to say a forward port side first class cabin near the first class dining room). He was transporting several priceless European Masterworks that went down with the ship. It is understood that he absolutely had these paintings securely sealed into airtight lead tubes that, in all likelihood may still exist buried in the depths of the hulk of the wreck herself. We are talking over a billion dollars worth of art. She rests in about ~450ft of depth around the limits of professional diving. Assuming the pressure wasnt enough to breach the tubes its possible these paintings may one day be recovered. It would be hideously dangerous, beyond suicidal, to attempt to recover them as an independent dive team even if you are deep wreck unstable overhead enviroment jesus.

Why couldn’t the animated version of the titanic be more like this?

Despite all the pooh - poohing in the comment - as crude as this is - it's still powerful and I imagine it had a tremendous impact in it's time.

a friend of mine introduced me to windsor mcay many years ago via gertie . we were talking on old yahoo messenger and he was on his way to a classic cartoon festival at the time .

A significant film in the history of animation, though it lacks imagination and is technically primitive. The images look like hand-drawn copies of archival footage. There are no close-ups and the movement is too slow. The shot of the mother drowning with baby in her arms is propaganda of the most obvious kind, but also shows that drawing realistic human characters was clearly a bridge too far.

Absolutely stunning!

Can I just say how good this animation is for the time? Unless you were Max Fleischer, realistic human character animation just wasn't possible, Yet somehow Winsor McCay & his team pulled it off! Bravo, Mr. McCay!

It was legal, the ship was caring Canadian soldiers, and cannon parts. Not a lot was made of it for over a year, until the US was looking to enter the war.

And with this, 109 years ago an entire artistic industry was born. The power of this dino, I tell you.

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This is incredible. Many thanks from a new subscriber

What a artistic style !

The birth of Personality animation

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The fact that world war 1 was starting the same year is both disturbing and fascinating

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I like stuff like this so I can put my own music to it

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Soooooo... the reason this doesn't work is pretty much like the first Star Trek movie: you have a big ship (given) but what makes a story interesting is at the human level. Not endless shots of a big ship. So you would have needed one character that the audience can become invested in (mom and babe: develop that first) and then you need to personify evil (the sub captain). Then you need a story arc. The ship is not a character and so much time was wasted animating that at the expense of story. Directors: if you have a budget don't waste it on a story-less story. "A big ship sinks" is not a story- it's a postcard. As for the animation, cool for it's day, but we didn't need to see it again in the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Also a flop. Anyway, best dramatic moment in this film: the two scared fishies. I believe they later got a cameo in that Don Knott's flick. And later one was technical advisor to the Charlie the Tuna ads.

Hey, can I ask which DVD/VHS you got this from? This alternate black-and-white version of the "Little Nemo" film fascinates me.

For more detail see Erik Larson's excellent book on the sinking: Dead Wake. The story is a little more complicated; for example, there was only 1 torpedo fired but it did unexpectedly severe damage, including killing a lot of the crew who were in the hold moving baggage.

The animation part is as good as the propaganda part is appalling. The art of propaganda has much evolved since then.

This version adds to the earlier posts of McCay's animation film. Still beautiful. Still tragic. An under appreciated work of art..

I love the name of your channel. It's so unique.

A delightful relic from the world of animation! Thanks much for posting.

Well done,tragic piece of our history!!!!

get on with it

thank you for the effort and the sharing. still quite powerful. thumbs up.

I like your choice of musical accompaniment to this. I hadn't listened to this music before.

My goodness, that fellow was talented! Thanks for posting this!