The Adventures of Prince Achmed

By Aaliyah 2022-10-07 23:19:42

Papageno is great too!

Director Lotte Reiniger was deeply influenced by Chinese shadow puppetry and paper-cutting, and made this paper-cutting animation feature film. The film combines several independent stories in "One Thousand and One Nights" together to form a new story, with all the characters, animals and the main set appearing in the form of black silhouettes. By connecting the joints with metal wires, the character becomes a movable paper puppet, and the production process is based on the animation principle...

By Mireya 2022-10-07 21:31:10

Exquisite animation

It's hard to believe it's a cartoon from the 1920s. First of all, the movie music is extremely exciting. The pure symphony accompaniment, the perfect combination of music and plot, especially when the prince peeped at Queen Wakovac's bath, the melody is so beautiful. Secondly, the paper-cutting is superb. Especially architecture and gorgeous costumes. The clothes of the heroine and supporting actors are very exquisite. The characteristics and perspective of halal architecture are successfully...

By Adam 2022-10-07 20:04:11

4 inside stories

It was completed in the form of silhouettes passed from China to the West, the world's first animated feature story.

When I saw Princess Paribanu coming out of the bath, I felt the water from Huaqing Pool that had been coming out of a thousand calls. The graceful figure of the silhouette, with the reflection floating in the water, the princess and a friend elk whispered. And the prince who was peeping from the side, like a baby hidden in the womb, floated in the palm leaves with...

By Reese 2022-10-07 18:04:01

Horny prince

"The Adventures of Prince Archimedes", the world's earliest silent full-length animation, paper-cut animation, directed by Lotte Reiniger, the film was released in Germany on September 3, 1926, the original negative and the complete German copy have been lost, reconstruction Based on the negatives with English subtitles stored in the National Film and Television Archive in London, the current German subtitles were restored based on the data from the electrical inspection at the time. With the...

By Miles 2023-08-05 13:03:15

Looks like a Chinese shadow...

By Melody 2023-08-01 07:18:36

29 years of paper-cut animations are amazing. The story is also...

By Bryana 2023-07-21 10:08:57

All the characters are...

By Ivah 2023-07-16 13:05:36

From Germany to Arabia to...

By Linnea 2023-07-11 07:58:41

Reminds me of my country's shadow play...