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The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
The opening caption of an English language import of one of animator Lotte Reiniger’s shorts, “The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle: The Lion’s Den” (1923), reads: “The characters in this little comedy have no real existence. They have been designed and … Continue reading
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Tagged 20's, Aladdin, Animation, Arabian Nights, genie, Lotte Reiniger, Magician, Silent, Witch
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
As fantasy films go, they don’t get much better than this. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was also the seventh big-screen voyage of Ray Harryhausen, whose magical stop motion creatures populated Mighty Joe Young (1949, alongside mentor Willis O’Brien), … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 50's, Arabian Nights, Bernard Herrmann, cyclops, Dragon, Fantasy, genie, Kathryn Grant, Kerwin Mathews, Nathan Juran, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Eyer, Roc, Sirens, Skeleton, Stop Motion, Torin Thatcher
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A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat (1972) may have been the first X-rated animated film, but three years before its release Japan had already begun testing the boundaries of adult animation with A Thousand and One Nights (Sen’ya ichiya monogatari, aka One … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Aladdin, Animation, Arabian Nights, Eiichi Yamamoto, Fantasy, genie, Japan, Osamu Tezuka, Psychedelic, sexploitation, Sinbad
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