Not exactly a baby step for the early feature animation

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)

Next movie I watched from the BFI films was the very first feature length animation in the history of cinema. It's a silhouette animation based on the One Thousand and One Nights story, made by Lotte Reiniger. It took her 3 years and over 250.000 frames to make, painstakingly moving the silhouettes by hand for every frame. The movie was a huge flop when it came out and was pretty much forgotten for decades. I just can't understand why as the movie is simply mind blowing. It wipes the floor with pretty much any of the early animations and even most of the new ones too. The first word that came to my mind during the movie was wow. And when I thought about it afterwards the first thing that came to my mind was wow. Wow is actually the best word to describe it as it's just pure eye candy, stunningly beautiful artistic masterpiece. And even the story is quite well portrayed with the comedy, action and suspence coming through clearly despite the unconventional method of displaying it. As the title says it's not exactly a baby step for the early feature animation, not by far, more like a giant leap to a whole new direction. Wether it's the curiosity to see the first steps of animated films or just the need to be entertained with a great movie, this is a must see for everyone.
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