Some short clips from one of the first animated feature films, The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Music added. For more information, visit: www.skwigly.co....
Wonder if any Tigers were involved in the making? In all seriousness, for an animated movie in 1926, it holds up remarkably well. Makes you think about how any animated movies we have lost may have looked.
I think that this movie is often not mentioned as the oldest existing animated feature, because it wasn't made by Americans. There were even more animated features that were released before Snow White - and all of them were made outside the USA. The first one wasa satirical El Apostol (1917) by an Argentinian called Quirino Cristiani (its only copy was destroyed in fire), then we had Sin dejar rastros (1918) by the same creator (it was confiscated by the government due to its satirical tone and most probably destroyed, although there is some hope that it may lie in some archive, totally forgotten) and two other satirical Argentinian movies by Andrés Ducaud from the same year (most probably lost in fire). After Prince Achmed, there was 1931 Peludopolis by Quirino Cristiani (the first sound animated feature - its only copy was lost in fire as well, the only remains of this movie is a very short scene featured in the BTS documentary), 1935 The New Gulliver from Soviet Union (a stop motion/live action combination), unfinished and lost Italian adaptation of Pinocchio ca. 1936, the French stop motion movie The Tale of the Fox (de facto finished in 1930, released in 1937 after the soundtrack was added) by a Polish-Russian creator Władysław Starewicz, and the 1937 German stop motion movie based on the fairytale Seven Ravens (it was released 19 days before Snow White).
That and I think its a case of people not considering puppetry as animation and people think of fully hand drawn (to CGI). People also tend to pick films where they can see the influence easier. It(s easier for them to see the influence of Snow White (all hand drawn, colored, AND VOICED) than Achmed (all puppetry and no dialogue)
There's also a lost animated opera titled "The Tale of the Priest and his workman Balda", a Soviet production with music done by Dmitri Shostakovich ("Waltz n°2"). Only one scene remains of it: the Bazaar.
This stop-motion cartoon is lovely. It's not the oldest. Pauvre Pierrot can be found on RU-vid it's French and was shown in 1892. It was hand-painted and in color. Some of the animator's other films were destroyed. You can find it on RU-vid. The oldest surviving cartoon that I know of in the US was a live-action hybrid in 1900 called the Enchanted Drawing. The animator was British American.
@@MattBnl2ih IF ACHMED FROM STARKID IS A REFERENCE TO THIS MOVIE BEING OVERSHADOWED BY DISNEY (portrayed by the movie Aladdin or at least the TRUE version of it) THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE SO INCREDIBLE.
What a rare thing to create a sense of wonder in the span of a few minutes. Now I interested in how to watch this film in its entirety. Thank you for the magnificent pleasure of discovering this movie.
it really is gorgeous to look at. When creatives don't/can't want to create a photo realistic looking animation sequence like this, the silhouette animation is just gorgeous
Woah, I love how this film used cardboard cutouts of puppets and shadow puppetry in general. It reminds me of the Chinese shadow play, but I forgot what you call it. But still, I really love this!
I got turned on to this years ago when I was watching TCM (Turner Classic Movies). It was the trippiest thing I had ever seen. It's still pretty great.
This is one of the first full-length animated movies, and one of the oldest surviving by a woman. I love the stop-show animation. Some get confused with the oldest full-length and wrongly think it's the oldest animation as well. it's one of the best but I think Lotte had older films that were lost. I wish I had this talent. The French cartoon, fantasmagorie is older (1908) it's on RU-vid. It's not the oldest surviving French animation. Pauvre Pierrot was shown in 1892. (on youtube) There is an animated live-action short called the Enchanted Drawing (1900). It's also on RU-vid. Snow White isn't even the oldest Disney cartoon and not the oldest in the US. It's still an amazing animated film for any time. (I will admit I looked all this stuff up.) I vaguly knew about fantasmagorie, but not the others.
Hi back! This is not part of our curriculum, I just stumbled across it, but I am in a motion design class right now. Just finished my first bumper animation, my second big AE project. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LhsUJgqcQ3c.html
@@matheus5230 sure but it wasn't the first feature film. The fact that THIS movie isn't listed as the first animated feature when it IS is insane to me.
@@livsim1236 I think that this movie is often not mentioned as the first animated feature, because it wasn't made by Americans. There were even more animated features that were released before Snow White - all of them made outside the USA. The first one was El Apostol (1917) by an Argentinian called Quirino Cristiani (its only copy was destroyed in fire), then we had Sin dejar rastros (1918) by the same creator (it was confiscated by the government due to its satirical tone and most probably destroyed, although there is some hope that it may lie in some archive, totally forgotten) and two other Argentinian movies by Andrés Ducaud from the same year (most probably lost in fire). After Prince Achmed, we had 1931 Peludopolis by Quirino Cristiani (the first sound animated feature - its only copy was lost in fire as well, the only remains of this movie is a very short scene featured in the BTS documentary), 1935 The New Gulliver from Soviet Union (a stop motion/live action combination), unfinished and lost Italian adaptation of Pinocchio ca. 1936, the 1937 French stop motion movie The Tale of the Fox by a Polish-Russian creator Władysław Starewicz, and the 1937 German stop motion movie based on the fairytale Seven Ravens (it was released 19 days before Snow White).
@@EEaglee Wow I didn't even know about these - thank you! It's crazy how American media can be so American-centric when we've been inspired and informed by so many different countries and their stories.
But...but surely they must! He's won scores of bloody wars and mopped the floors with his foes! He's even eviscerated peasants from their heads down to their toes!
It wasn't. The first was called El Apostle's, that was unfortunately destroyed in a fire. The Adventures of Prince Achmed, however, is considered to be the oldest surviving animated feature
I saw this on a local TV channel in the 1990's and forgot the title! After all this time I found it!!! Local access channels don't advertise what's going to be on! Horror, comedy, adult R rated....😮😊
This is German, actually Snow White is the first AMERICAN animated movie but Achmed is the oldest surviving one. There are 2 older films from the 1910s but they're lost unfortunately
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