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The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Les aventures du prince Ahmad) [Sub: Eng]
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German director Lotte Reiniger spent three years making this silent animated film based on the Arabian Nights legends. The dashing Prince Achmed saves a lovely damsel from evil witches and mythical beasts, as well as discovering Aladdin's lamp, all in the primitive but intriguing silhouette style of animation which Reiniger herself developed. The film's 65-minute running time gave it the distinction of being the first animated feature in the world, but only one copy remained in existence until Reiniger supervised the striking of newly tinted negatives in the early '70s.
German director Lotte Reiniger spent three years making this silent animated film based on the Arabian Nights legends. The dashing Prince Achmed saves a lovely damsel from evil witches and mythical beasts, as well as discovering Aladdin's lamp, all in the primitive but intriguing silhouette style of animation which Reiniger herself developed. The film's 65-minute running time gave it the distinction of being the first animated feature in the world, but only one copy remained in existence until Reiniger supervised the striking of newly tinted negatives in the early '70s.
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June 29, 2008
More than eighty years later...it still looks like nothing you've ever seen.
August 19, 2014
Enchanting.
August 19, 2014
German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger's ground-breaking, silent, animated fantasy feature used cut-out paper silhouettes to tell a tale that combines pieces of several stories from The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights.
May 26, 2006
The Adventures of Prince Achmed deserves to be a landmark. And it would be if it were better known.
August 19, 2014
Beautiful as it all is, considerable dedication is required to sit through an hour of monotone, flat silhouette animation. It's rewarding -- but the reward is hard earned.
August 19, 2014
It may not be exactly new to perceive silhouette figures on the screen, but it is quite another matter as they are offered here.
June 24, 2006
It impresses for its exquisite craftmanship, balletic movement, expressive romanticism and moments of potent sensuousness and poetry.
August 19, 2014
Even with the knowledge that the figures are made from simple pieces of cards and tricks of light, there is a magical splendour to her animations.
January 13, 2003
The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a vital part of film history.
August 19, 2014
Beautiful and innovative -- age only adds to its brilliance and charm.
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December 06, 2005
That The Adventures of Prince Achmed still survives is a work of wonder equivalent to any rare treasure which Aladdin could rub out of his lamp.
October 30, 2001
The images, most of them gorgeously detailed silhouettes, are dazzling.

