[chajin]

1915: Just off the coast of southern Ireland, the submarine U-20 spots the massive ocean liner RMS Lusitania, steaming from New York and hoping to sneak through Germany's blockade of the British Isles . The U-boat fires a single torpedo at the ship and Lusitania sinks in just 18 minutes, taking 1,198 people - including 128 Americans - with her to the bottom.

This was "preserved" in a 1918 animation which was way ahead of its time in terms of animation techniques; it can be seen here.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that is an amazing animation. I'd never heard of Winsor McCay before. There's a film on YT showing his crew producing the 25,000 drawings.

OT, but here's another animation of his: How a Mosquito Operates. You can see the early anthropomorphic humor that Walt Disney used in his videos when you see the mosquito tipping his hat to the audience and doing silly things with his legs.