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1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Premiering in Germany in 1926 and based on the stories from "The Arabian nights," this movie has been hailed as the first full-length animated film. This is the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse intending to send the rider off on a flight to his death.
von Lotte Reiniger ; mitarbeiter, Walther Ruttmann, Berthold Bartosch, Alexander Kardan ; technische Leitung, Carl Koch ; Comenius-Film G.m.b.H. = Les aventures du prince Ahmed : un film en ombres chinoises animées / de Lotte Reiniger ; en collaboration avec, Walther Ruttmann, Berthold Bartosch, Carl Koch.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1926.
Neither the original negatives nor a complete copy of the original German version exists. The following reconstruction is based on an existing tinted and toned nitrate copy which was held at the National Film and Television Archive, London.
Special features: Lotte Reiniger : homage to the inventor of the silhouette film / written and directed by Katja Raganelli (1999, 64 min.) -- The secret of the marquise: a 1921 animated advertising short by Lotte Reiniger -- Stills gallery.
German intertitles with English subtitles and optional English voiceover.
Editor, Nina Goslar ; original music, Wolfgang Zeller.
Lotte Reiniger, homage to the inventor of the silhouette film