This is The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a film by Lotte Reiniger, and is the earliest known feature length 2-D animated film. This ambitious project was made by using puppets, that were created using black card, and moving them frame-by-frame in front of a light box. This technique made for some impressive imagery and character designs, a style that acclaimed animator of today, Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline), is very reminiscent of. The settings and locations were simply beautiful and were really translated well by the technique used. Now this was clearly not an easy feat, all I know off the top of my head is that this took Reiniger 3 painstaking years to make. This was a 65 minute film and was animated at 24 frames per second (since production started the same time the average frame rate of film increased to between 20-25 fps). This film was truly ahead of its time, having used the 12 principles of animation before they were even really common knowledge.
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