The Adventures of Prince Achmed: 100th anniversary screening with live musical accompaniment

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Introduced by Whitney Grace, author of Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation Dir. Lotte Reiniger. 1926, 80 mins. Germany. 35mm. Eleven years before Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lotte Reiniger’s stop-motion feature The Adventures of Prince Achmed, debuted in 1926 at the Volksbühne in Berlin, during the height of the Weimar Republic. Adapted from the tales known as the Arabian Nights, the film follows the adventures of a young prince atop a magical, flying horse who joins forces with the likes of Aladdin and a fabled witch. To evade his destined ill fate, he saves a beautiful princess and battles a sorcerer’s army of monsters. This thrilling, sensuous tale, told through Reiniger’s meticulous cut-paper silhouette animation technique, still enthralls audiences of all ages one hundred years later. Featuring live musical accompaniment by Charlie Judkins and preceded by a lecture by Whitney Grace, author of Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / free for MoMI members. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Guest speaker Whitney Grace is a professional writer, researcher, appraiser, and pop culture historian. Her books include Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation and her fantasy/horror novel Iron Impetigo. She hosts the Toon-In Talk Podcast and is pursuing a gemology degree at GIA. She’s currently working on a book about videogame movies, animator Tissa David, and a sequel to Iron Impetigo.

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