Papageno is great too!

Aaliyah 2022-10-07 23:19:42

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 to take a picture, and then the finished film is continuously played to become a moving image.

In the tidbits, I saw that the working environment of this female director was really not good. Even the writing desk was used by digging a hole in the table and putting it in the glass and lighting it underneath. She poses the characters little by little and takes them one by one... If I were to go crazy... It took three years to complete the film. Facts have proved that its beauty has not faded due to the passage of time, but it has made me in the 21st century so amazing in front of the picture tube that I can’t speak. French animation master Michel Ocelot (Mitchell Ocelot) was obviously affected by it, and only then presented the most beautiful "Prince and Princess" and "One Thousand and Two Nights".

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed quotes

  • Prince Achmed: Don't be afraid of me... I shall serve you to my death.

    Pari Banu: You don't know the demons of Wak-Wak! They will kill you!

    Prince Achmed: Allah's grace will protect us if you become my wife.

  • Prince Achmed: We will find our way home and you will forget Wak-Wak.

    Pari Banu: I will follow you!