The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a 1926 German animated fairytale film, written and directed by Lotte Reiniger. Since two earlier Quirino Cristiani films are lost, it remains the oldest surviving an
Prince Achmed director Lotte Reiniger working in 1922
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Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with One Thousand and One Nights, despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
…lost, it remains the oldest surviving animated feature film. The plot is based on elements from several One Thousand and One Nights stories, such as Aladdin, Ahmed and Paribanou, and The Ebony Horse. Prince Achmed features a silhouette animation technique that Reiniger invented by manipulating cardboard…
Aladdin finds the marvelous lamp inside the cave of wonders. A c. 1898 illustration by René Bull.
The Sorcerer traps Aladdin in the magic cave.
An 1886 theatre poster advertising a production of the pantomime Aladdin
New Crowns for Old, a 19th-century British cartoon based on the Aladdin story (Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria an Imperial crown (of India) in exchange for a Royal one)