{"id":627338,"date":"2026-06-08T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:16:36","slug":"she-beat-disney-by-a-decade-how-a-26-year-old-german-woman-made-the-worlds-oldest-animated-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627338\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;She beat Disney by a decade&#8217;: How a 26-year-old German woman made the world&#8217;s oldest animated feature film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Indeed, once Reiniger accepted the proposition, she took on just a handful of staff. This included a few animators, an assistant to track the frames shot, and Reiniger&#8217;s husband, who controlled the camera. As well as directing, Reiniger constructed the silhouette puppets herself, cutting characters from cardboard and lead, before <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q-TJvNBO1fw\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fixing their joints with wire hinges<\/a>. She also devised the film&#8217;s scenario, combining several Middle Eastern fairy tales into one story, The Adventures of Prince of Achmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indeed, once Reiniger accepted the proposition, she took on just a handful of staff. This included a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}