The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926, Germany, animation)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Germany 1926, PG, 81 mins
with live piano accompaniment from Mike Hatchard​
Mike Hatchard brings an extraordinary evening of a 1920 experience of silent film with live piano accompaniment! The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a 1926 German animated fairytale film, written and directed by Lotte Reiniger. 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.
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Prince Achmed features a silhouette animation technique that Reiniger invented by manipulating cardboard cutouts and thin sheets of lead under a camera, similar to Wayang shadow puppets. The original prints featured colour tinting. Reiniger also used the first form of a multiplane camera in making the film, one of the most important devices in pre-digital animation. Several famous avant-garde animators worked on Prince Achmed, among them Walter Ruttmann, Berthold Bartosch and Carl Koch.

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