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100th Anniversary Screening! Magic is infused in every frame of THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette-animated film is exquisitely composed of intricate paper cut-outs. Predating Disney’s stronghold on animated fairy tales, PRINCE ACHMED is one of the first, and earliest surviving animated feature-length films. Reiniger drew from The Blue Fairy Book’s “One Thousand and One Nights” for her enchanted Arabian tale of Achmed—a prince tricked by an evil sorcerer and banished to a foreign land where he falls in love with a princess in peril.
Claiming to believe “more in the truth of fairy tales than that found in the newspapers,” Reiniger was a cinematic fantasy genre pioneer. Taking a painstaking three years for Reiniger to animate, PRINCE ACHMED is a technical marvel, and 100 years after its initial release, it still manages delight young and old alike!
Live accompaniment by Tania Gill
Silent Revue is curated by Alicia Fletcher and sponsored by Hollywood Suite
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Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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