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The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (1926) - the oldest surviving animated feature film

An African sorcerer conjures up a flying horse, which he shows to the Caliph. When the sorcerer refuses to sell it for any amount of gold, the Caliph offers any treasure he has. The sorcerer chooses Dinarsade, the Caliph's daughter. Prince Achmed, Dinarsade's brother, objects, but the sorcerer persuades him to try out the horse. The prince does not know how to control the horse, so it carries the prince away, higher and higher into the sky. The Caliph has the sorcerer imprisoned. When Achmed discovers how to make the horse descend, he finds himself in a magical island called Wak Wak. He is greeted by a bevy of attractive maidens. Pari Banu, the beautiful ruler of the land of Wak Wak, arrives with her attendants to bathe, but he captures her. He gains her trust. They fall in love. The sorcerer frees himself from his chains. Transforming himself into a bat, he seeks out Achmed. The prince chases the sorcerer, but the sorcerer takes Pari Banu to China and sells her to the Emperor. The sorcerer returns and pins Achmed under a boulder on top of a mountain. However, the Witch of the Flaming Mountain notices him and rescues Achmed. The sorcerer is her arch-enemy, so she helps Achmed rescue Pari Banu from the Emperor. Then, the demons of Wak Wak find the couple and, despite Achmed's fierce resistance, carry Pari Banu off. Achmed slays a monster who is attacking a boy named Aladdin, who accidentally released one of the genies of the lamp and ordered it to take him home. He then courted and married Dinarsade. One night, Dinarsade, Aladdin's magnificent palace, and the lamp disappeared. Blamed by the Caliph, Aladdin fled to avoid being executed. A storm at sea cast him ashore at Wak Wak. When he tried to pluck fruit from a "tree", it turned into a monster and grabbed him, but Achmed killed it. Achmed reveals to Aladdin that his palace and the lamp were stolen by the sorcerer because of his obsession for Dinarsade. Then, the witch arrives. Since only the lamp can open the gates, she agrees to attack the sorcerer to get it. They engage in a magical duel, each transforming into various creatures. Finally, the witch slays the sorcerer. With the lamp, they are able to enter Wak Wak, just in time to save Pari Banu from being thrown to her death. A fierce battle erupts. A hydra-like creature seizes Pari Banu. When Achmed cuts off one of its heads, two more grow back immediately, but the witch stops this regeneration, allowing Achmed to kill it and rescue Pari Banu. A flying palace then settles to the ground. Inside, Achmed, Pari Banu, Aladdin, and the Caliph find Dinarsade. The two couples bid goodbye to the witch and fly home to the palace. A 1926 German animated fairytale film (German: "Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed") written & directed by Lotte Reiniger, cinematography by Carl Koch. The story is based on elements from the "One Thousand and One Nights" written by Hanna Diyab, including "Aladdin," "The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Perī-Bānū", and "The Ebony Horse." This is the oldest surviving animated feature film. Only two Argentinean films by Quirino Cristiani, both presumed lost, predate it. Reiniger required several years, from 1923 to 1926, to make this film. Each frame was painstakingly filmed, and 24 frames were needed per second. The reason why an adaptation of Arabian Nights was chosen was based on the idea that the action should show events that would only be possible with animation. In addition to herself, her small team consisted of Alexander Kardan, Walter Turck, and famous avant-garde animators Walter Ruttmann, Berthold Bartosch, and her husband Carl Koch. A Berlin banker named Louis Hagen financed the movie, and offered the team to use the attic of the garage in his vegetable garden as their studio. Oskar Fischinger made a wax-slicing machine for them which was used to visualize magic in several scenes. Another tool was the first form of a multiplane camera, one of the most important devices in pre-digital animation. They used a silhouette animation technique Reiniger invented that involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera. The technique she used for the camera is similar to Wayang shadow puppets, though hers were animated frame by frame, not manipulated in live action. Stars were made by holding a cardboard with small holes in front of a strong light, superimposed pieces of semitransparent tissue paper was used to make waves, and silver paper for moonlit water. For other movable backgrounds, which sometimes included the use of two negatives, they made different layers covered with substances like sand, paint and soap. The original prints featured color tinting. Reiniger was one of the first filmmakers to attempt a portrayal of openly gay lovers in film: the Emperor of China and a male character named Ping Pong. A wonderful, delightful, charming, amazing animated journey into a fantastical world of heroes, villains, magic and monsters.