We had watched a lot of animations during classes and I think The Adventures of Prince Achmed is one of the most entertaining film. Although it is longer than an hour and it doesn’t have any voice acting or colourful image, I still enjoyed and liked it very much. Somehow I felt the story plot is a combination of different folk tale, such as Aladdin from Middle East and Cowherd and Weaving Girl from China, and this must be an innovative creation at that time. Besides, it was glad to know that such marvellous narrative art was made by a female creator, Lotte Reiniger. As far as I know, women usually would not be such important role in their workplace and their social status was lower than men at that time. However, here we came a great female director! And her animation is a very first full-length animation which is so interesting and beautiful! I reckon that Lotte Reiniger is a strong evidence of the existence of many nameless female animators who were contributing the industry at that time. Love and respect her!
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 