"The Adventures of prince Achmed" by Lotte Reiniger was the first animated feature film ever produced, predating Disney. It features silhouette animation techniques Reiniger had invented which involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera. "The original prints featured colour tinting. The story is based on the elements taken from the collection 1001 arabian nights, specifically The Story of Prince Achmed and the Fairy Paribanou featured in Andrew's Wang The blue fairy book."When asked how exactly she animated her film by the British magazine Sight & Sound in 1936, Reiniger had this to say:
"...The technique of this type of film is very simple. As with cartoon drawings, the silhouette films are photographed movement by movement. But instead of using drawings, silhouette marionettes are used. These marionettes are cut out of black cardboard and thin lead, every limb being cut separately and joined with wire hinges. A study of natural movement is very important, so that the little figures appear to move just as men and women and animals do. But this is not a technical problem. The backgrounds for the characters are cut out with scissors as well, and designed to give a unified style to the whole picture. They are cut from layers of transparent paper." - Lotte Reiniger, Sight & Sound (1936).
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