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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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The Sinking of the Lusitania

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  • Winsor McCay (centre) drawing a sketch, 1908.
    Winsor McCay

    …produce another animated film until The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), which was one of the first films to utilize cel animation—the process in which individual elements of a scene are drawn on clear celluloid sheets rather than paper, which thereby eliminates the need for multiple drawings of backgrounds and…

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    …produce another animated film until The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), which was one of the first films to utilize cel animation—the process in which individual elements of a scene are drawn on clear celluloid sheets rather than paper, which thereby eliminates the need for multiple drawings of backgrounds and…

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