What was the name of the first feature-length animated film?

star_gazer

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film) Oct 18 09, 9:08 PM

serpa

The oldest extant animated feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) was made by Lotte Reiniger using the silhouette technique she invented. Reiniger manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under the camera to create an Arabian Nights world of delicate, filigree backgrounds and intricately jointed figures. With the assistance of Aladdin, the Witch of the Fiery Mountain, and a magic horse, the title character battles the evil African sorcerer to win the hand of Princess Peri Banu. http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Prince-Achmed-Carl-Koch/dp/B0000714B2 In 1917, Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope to streamline the frame-by-frame copying process - it was a device used to overlay drawings on live-action film. The Fleischers were also pioneering the use of 3-D animation landscapes, and produced the hour-long Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1923), the first feature animation (a documentary). http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html Oct 18 09, 10:21 PM

Zbeckabee

First Animated Feature: The little-known but pioneering, oldest-surviving feature-length animated film that can be verified (with silhouette animation techniques and color tinting) was released by German film-maker and avante-garde artist Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (aka Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926, Germ.), based on the stories from the Arabian Nights. Reiniger's achievement is often brushed aside, due to the fact that the animations were silhouetted, used paper cut-outs, and they were done in Germany. And the rarely-seen prints that exist have lost much of their original quality. However, the film was very innovative -- it used multi-plane camera techniques and experimented with wax and sand on the film stock. http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html Oct 18 09, 10:41 PM

serpa

El Apóstol The first feature-length animated film in the world. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007646/trivia El Apóstol (Spanish: "The Apostle") was a 1917 Argentine animated film utilizing cutout animation, and the world's first animated feature film. It was written and directed by Quirino Cristiani, and consisted of a total of 58,000 frames played over the course of 70 minutes (at 14 frames per second).[1] The film was a satire, with President Hipólito Yrigoyen ascending to the heavens to use Jupiter's thunderbolts to cleanse Buenos Aires of immorality and corruption. The result is a burnt city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Apóstol Jan 07 12, 10:19 AM