Early pioneer of film animation Lotte Reiniger is to be honoured by the city of Coventry on Tuesday 26th of June, where there are still warm memories of screenings of her works shown there after she fled Nazi Germany in the 30s (ironically the city would be devastated only a few years later by bombers from the same Nazi regime she fled). You might recall I mentioned Reiniger here a few months back when the Edinburgh Filmhouse (one of my favourite places in the world) took part in the Puppet and Animation Festival – part of which involved screening her Adventures of Prince Achmed, a quite gorgeous work of animation using her trademark silhouette puppets (she began her film career making silhouettes of fellow actors in the silent era, which lead to small animations for title sequences and adverts and short films). The Adventures of Prince Achmed is generally thought to be the oldest surviving feature-length animated movie in the world and is utterly gorgeous – if you get the chance to see it in a cinema, take it. (link via Neorama)
(still from Reiniger’s beautiful Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving feature length animation known)
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December 5th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
[...] The festival runs until the 8th of December, and also features appearances by illustrator and cartoonist David Merveille, author and illustrator Emma Chichester-Clark, and many others. On the 11th of December, the quite delightful vintage animated film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” by Lotte Reininger (1926) will be shown with its original score, performed by the French trio NFL3 (Lotte was honoured by the city of Coventry this summer; her remarkable Prince Achmed is generally held to be the oldest surviving feature-length animation in the world – Joe). Print this Story Send to a Friend [...]