Animation and Documentaries

[beamjockey]

Winsor McCay made an animated film of The Sinking of the Lusitania in 1918.

Max Fleischer and his studio made The Einstein Theory of Relativity (with Garrett P. Serviss!) and the controversial Darwin's Theory of Evolution in 1923.

Have you seen these? I am intrigued.

Comments

[mmcirvin]

More to the point, why have I not known about this?

[beamjockey]

It's my job to tell you. (Or maybe Kip's job, I forget.)

[kip_w]

I've seen at least clips from the Lusitania film. I just checked, and it's not at the Library of Congress's "American Memory" pages (though they have two other bits of his animation there). If the links go bad -- and links for that site so often do -- go there and search on Winsor McCay and they'll turn up.

Next I was off to search for the Fleischer cartoons at archive.org, and they don't have them there, so I was batting a thousand. They have some of the other educational films Max made, like how a sound film works, so it wasn't a total loss.

[kip_w]

By the way, you can go to archive.org and search for "stripper" and you'll get several once-famous artistes in short films showcasing their talents. One of them came up during the "fleischer" search. I always thought it was amusing that there was a stripper named Georgia Southern, as that was the campus where Cathy was working at the time.

[beamjockey]

I can neither confirm nor deny.

[stickmaker]

I have the Lusitania one on a Canadian DVD set of McCay's animation. I often bring this to conventions to show. (The DVD as a whole, mainly for the Gertie and Little Nemo stuff.)