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The sinking of the Lusitania

This film, after introducing Winsor McCay, the artist and cartoonist, who was responsible for this picture, gives some idea of the tremendous amount of work necessitated for this production. Then, he introduces Augustus F. Beach, the first American newspaper man to interview the survivors. McCay follows the war correspondent's report of the manner in which the gigantic vessel was twice torpedoed, the orderly…

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