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This film is written and directed by Lotte Reiniger.
Silent films set the stage for the cinematic experience we know and love today. This September, join us for Silent Movie Day, an annual celebration of this rich, vastly underestimated cinematic art form.
This year, we’re thrilled to welcome back The Anvil Orchestra to perform a live, newly composed score to accompany the visually astounding animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed to mark its 100th anniversary.
Film Information
Widely believed to be the very first animated feature film, Lotte Reiniger’s astonishing 1926 adaptation of tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” uses striking silhouette cutouts and gorgeous color tinting to bring to life an enchanting story. Painstakingly composed frame by frame by Reiniger over the course of three years, this landmark work is both an enchanting storybook saga and a retina-delighting triumph of visual imagination.
Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures.
Reviews
"The picture is fully as fantastic and as entrancing as the characters about whom the story revolves." –The Boston Globe
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