Postscript to Sunken Films and Lusitania

Here’s the full US NARA reel (4:26) excerpted in Bill Morrison’s Sunken Films, debuted at the 2020 Orphan Film Symposium. The NARA YouTube channel published this in 2015, with the assigned title S.S. Lusitania Leaves New York City on Last Voyage. No head title is on the film itself. The archival record does not identify the original source of the footage. NARA catalogs it as Historical Film, No. 1221. Who shot it? The paper work from the deposit of elements in 1936 is scanned into the catalog record. The War Department memoranda and Signal Corps Photo Lab records contain internal … Continue reading Postscript to Sunken Films and Lusitania