ANIMATION TRANSFORMED: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Schedule
Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 am
UTC+10:30Location
13 Morphett St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia | Adelaide, SA
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The first of four screenings in Idris Kellermann Williams' new ANIMATION TRANSFORMED program, presented by Moviejuice at the Mercury. Tickets are $12 per film or $30 for a 4-film pass. Free for Mercury subscribers.THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926, dir. Lotte Reineger)
66 minutes, Germany
Predating Disney’s Snow White, this Arabian Nights adaptation by German filmmaker Lotte Reineger is both the earliest surviving animated feature film, and one of the most beautiful ever made. Her intricately hand-crafted shadow puppets and props create stunning visual effects on an animation stand that prefigured Disney's famous multi-plane camera. 100 years old this year!
“exquisite craftmanship, balletic movement, expressive romanticism and moments of potent sensuousness and poetry.” - Wally Hammond, Time Out
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