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The Sinking of the Lusitania

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 7, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 14:22, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cel from the film

The Sinking of the Lusitania is a silent animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. It is a re-creation of the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania, in which a German submarine torpedoed and sank the ship, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. McCay's employer, William Randolph Hearst, downplayed the tragedy as he was opposed to the US joining World War I. However, in 1916 McCay tired of drawing anti-war cartoons and rebelled against the magnate, choosing to make an anti-German film based on the sinking. McCay and his assistants, on their own time and using the new, efficient cel technology, spent twenty-two months on the production. The Sinking of the Lusitania was released in 1918, making it the earliest animated documentary and serious, dramatic work of animation to survive. It had little commercial success compared to McCay's earlier works Little Nemo (1911) and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), and his later animation went largely unnoticed. The artist spent the rest of his life making editorial drawings. (Full article...)

  • Montana, does this mean you are withdrawing your support from Gary Cooper (also nominated for 7 May)? Brianboulton (talk) 22:49, 5 April 2015 (UTC
  • Man, that sure puts this Montana girl in a tough spot! How can I possibly say anything tops Coop? LOL! One thought: Given that TFA runs on GMT, could we run Coop on the 8th? (Midnight GMT is 5pm on the 7th for folks out west...) Montanabw(talk) 08:50, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Like I said, I'm not picky about the date (except that I think this article will probably get more hits on this one than 2018), but I do wonder: why run Cooper this particular year? It's an odd anniversary. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 00:46, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dunno why the nominator decided beyond the birthday, but I've seen FACs pass and become TFA within a few weeks. Nothing all that unusual there. Sometimes the older FACs need a lot of cleaning up to be ready for prime time; the newer ones usually don't need much work. And if the 8th or the 13th (see Coop TFA/R above) work, end of problem. Montanabw(talk) 06:17, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]