Featuring Jim Riggs on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ

With innovative, illusionary cinematic techniques, trick photography with superimposed images, dissolves and cuts - Silent Movie Mondays: Adventure Stories to Silent Classics explores the early works of visionaries who created a science fiction film world from such malleable objects as cardboard cut outs, clay, and cedars. An Arabian prince, an evil sorcerer, underwater adventures, and baby brontosaurus populate the dreamland uncovered in the THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, and LOST WORLD, easily some of the eras most innovative forays into science fiction and fantasy filmmaking. Catch these handcrafted films that boldly go where no CGI-laden Star Wars, or Harry Potter movie ever can, an imagined world constructed of the tactile not the digital.

Climb aboard a flying horse and fly away to the kaleidoscopic world of The Arabian Nights! THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED - the oldest extant feature-length animated film - is a breathtaking work of art. Created in 1926 by 23 year-old German teacher Lotte Reiniger, the film tells the story of an Arabian prince, an evil sorcerer, and a captured princess using silhouette-animation techniques. ACHMED is a vital part of film history and a breathtaking work of art. The film is made of nearly 300,000 camera shots, a meticulous triumph of imagination and animation. Legendary French filmmaker Jean Renoir proclaimed the film “a masterpiece,” adding that Lotte Reiniger was “born with magic hands.”