Students analyze the document and answer questions based on the analysis. Choose a primary source from the website or upload your own. Interpreting the Evidence Single Document Historical Analysis.Note: it is unclear when this film was made and released. Intertitle reads: "The man who fired the shot was decorated for it by the Kaiser! - AND YET THEY TELL US NOT TO HATE THE HUN." She tries to hold the baby above the water but doesn't manage to.
Underwater scene of a mother sinking under the water with a baby in her arms. "Fifteen minutes after the first torpedo struck, the Lusitania had disappeared beneath the waves." The water bubbles on the surface of the sea as the ship goes down then subsides. We see the ship's mast going down and its ensign being engulfed by the sea. "The babe that clung to his mother's breast cried out to the world - TO AVENGE the most violent cruelty that was ever perpetrated upon an unsuspecting and innocent people." Lifeboats and people bob about on the surface of the ocean. People throw themselves off the boat as it sinks - we see the sinking from various angles. "No warning was given - no mercy was shown. People jump and dive off the boat as it sinks into the sea. Another explosion takes place and the ship begins to sink. Lifeboats are lowered down over the side of the ship. A second torpedo crashes into the engine room. Smoke pours from its funnels and from the ship itself. Intertitle reads: "Germany, once a great and powerful nation, had done a dastardly deed in a dastardly way." Animation of lifeboats being lowered and people in the sea.
"He faced death smiling, and uttered to those about them just before death came his immortal observation that "Death is but a beautiful adventure of life." The smoke lifts from the ship. Vanderbilt - multi-millionaire and American sportsman, Charles Frohman - the world's foremost Theatrical Manager. Photographs of the following are shown in the film: Elbert Hubbard - modern philosopher and author, Charles Klein - distinguished American playwright, Alfred G. The film details lives lost including "men of world wide prominence". Smoke pours from the hole made and engulfs the ship. Explosions wreck the liner, debris flies everywhere. Torpedo smashes into the side of the ship.
Under the sea two fish look very alarmed and swim off as a torpedo comes towards them. People on deck of the submarine run to climb inside before it submerges. The German Submarine U-39 launches two torpedoes at the ship. Intertitle reads: "Germany, which had already benumbed the world with its wholesale killing, then sent its instrument of crime to perform a more treacherous and cowardly offense." Animated sequence of submarine approaching the ship. Intertitles give the history of the sinking of the ship intercut with animated sequences showing the liner travelling past the Statue of Liberty. "From here on you are looking at the first record of the sinking of the Lusitania. "Twenty-five thousand drawings had to be made and photographed one at a time." M/S of animators at work in a studio. They point to various parts of the ship and talk. "Mr Beach giving Winsor McCay the details of the sinking - necessary for the work to follow." A man walks over to Mr McCay placing a large photograph of the Lusitania on the desk. Introductory intertitle reads: " Winsor McCay, originator and inventor of Animated Cartoons, decides to draw a historical record of the crime that shocked Humanity." Title reads: "An amazing moving pen picture by Winsor (sic) McCay." Universal Films - The Transatlantic Film Co.
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