The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100

Posted by 1659447091 3 days ago

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Comment by bentley 43 minutes ago

100 years old, yet its copyright only expired five years ago—in the United States. In Europe and other life+70 regions, the film will remain copyrighted past 2050, even though Lotte Reiniger died nearly half a century ago!

Comment by yiyus 1 hour ago

Starevich was doing stop motion animated films in 1912: "The Beautiful Leukanida" or "The Cameraman's Revenge".

Comment by 1659447091 3 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJvNBO1fw

17 min documentary showing Reiniger's technique/process

Comment by JKCalhoun 4 hours ago

Amazing film. (I discovered it via "1001 Movies to See Before You Die.")

Copies are on YT:

https://youtu.be/7V_8aFQUfBw

https://youtu.be/AbXjEoD_dIE

https://youtu.be/j6DaB0Is4jM

Comment by bentley 41 minutes ago

It can also be watched in full on Wikipedia, as is the case with many films that are public domain in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achme...

Comment by jimbokun 6 hours ago

I’m shocked I never heard of this before.

Just watched the first couple minutes of The Adventures of Prince Achmed and it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.

Comment by thaumasiotes 2 hours ago

> it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before

It's a filmed shadowpuppet performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_play

Comment by bmacho 2 hours ago

It's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/

Comment by acoster 2 hours ago

IIRC, that's the movie they play on loop at the kids section of Landesmuseum in Zürich.

Comment by bsder 2 hours ago

I wonder if she knew of Henri Rivière and his "Ombres Chinoises."

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/henri-riviere-master-printm...

The Shadow Theatre at "Le Chat Noir" was fairly famous, no?

Comment by ChrisMarshallNY 5 hours ago

Amazing story!

I was unaware of her.

Thanks!