Sinking Of The Lusitania

Here is another animation by Winsor McCay "Sinking Of The Lusitania" sunk in WW1. This used animation in a very different way in which it was previously used. It depicted recorded events on a passenger ship being sunk by a German sea vessel. It is very graphic and personal showing individual renowned American civilians that where aboard the Lusitania generating disgust among its viewers.
The piece is animated amazingly and the use of different angles being used, closeups long shots etc whilst the ship is sinking shows what events where accruing in detail. For example if it stayed on the long shot of the ship sinking then showed all the overboard civilians it would not have the same impact as cutting in between the two shots. It brought you close to the atrocity of immanent death by showing a small number of individuals abandoning ship and then shows thee whole of the ship where thew individual is to small to be seen giving you an visual idea on the amount of damned souls aboard the Lusitania. When i viewed it i was saddened by the animations as it was a real event and i thought of the fear and loss of life aboard the vessel. This i feel as well as generating hate for the Germans was the objective of the animation.