- 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!
by JKCalhoun
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- 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
- For those interested in the subject, animation has quite a history before Disney came onto the scene. I suggest this book:
Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928 by Donald Crafton
Personally, I remain impressed to this day with the pioneering work of Winsor McCay, the cartoonist who created Little Nemo. Perhaps the best example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW71mSedJuU
by 1659447091
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJvNBO1fw
17 min documentary showing Reiniger's technique/process
by Jordan-117
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- I first encountered it set to Radiohead's "Sail to the Moon," which pairs quite well with the eerie visuals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-ggx0TlkA
- 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.
- There's app that allows you to do something quite similar in real time:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quikanimate/id6467067883
by klondike_klive
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- Animators (and storyboarders, layout artists, illustrators etc) are still taught to prioritise the clarity and readability of the character's silhouette, although they're usually working with a three quarter view (between side profile and front-on) rather than a profile like the shadow puppets here. Still I can't help thinking this film would be a good object of study.
Some of the forest scenes remind me of the original King Kong in their use of dark foreground shapes and framing devices to give an impression of scale.
https://youtu.be/j6DaB0Is4jM?t=1720
https://youtu.be/1vNv-pE8I_c?t=72
- Starevich was doing stop motion animated films in 1912: "The Beautiful Leukanida" or "The Cameraman's Revenge".
- 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?
- IIRC, that's the movie they play on loop at the kids section of Landesmuseum in Zürich.
- It's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/
- Never heard about it before and just watched it on youtube.
I have found it absolutely beautiful.
by ChrisMarshallNY
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- Amazing story!
I was unaware of her.
Thanks!
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- Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_8aFQUfBw, the film is impressive and has merit.
Should we say that it's "animated?" I know it's an argument of semantics; yet it's nothing like the hand-drawn animation of early Disney movies.
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