I just watched this the other night, and I’d recommend it to anyone who’s interested in animation as a medium.
“Prince Achmed” was the first feature-length animated film, pre-dating “Snow White.” It was done by animating paper-cut silhouettes. Many of them are really beautiful, with all sorts of finely cut details. If nothing else, there aren’t many other films that look like this one.
The plot is a mish-mosh–basically, it’s just there to let Lotte Rineger throw in lots of interesting scenery and characters.
On a related note, I just noticed (while I was looking up “Achmed” in Netflix) that Svenkmayr’s “Alice”–it’s an interested take on “Alice in Wonderland”.
Gav