'She beat Disney by a decade': How a 26-year-old German woman made the world's oldest animated feature film ^2%

BBC - By Christian Kriticos - 6/3/2026, 11:00 AM

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Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926. This stop-motion classic makes her "a key figure in the history of cinema". Starting out in the film business isn't always glamorous. In the silent era, aspiring German actress Lotte Reiniger began her career on an adaptation of a folk tale, The Pied... more