On Saturday July 23 at 6:45PM, as the final stop in Forage: A Roaming Gallery, The Holland Project and the Nevada Museum of Art will be screening the 1920’s silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed. This film is the oldest existing full-length animated film. Lotte Reiniger spent three years working on The Adventures of Prince Achmed with her husband, Carl Koch. Over those three years, 250,000 frames were created with Reiniger’s black cardboard cut-out silhouette characters. Once completed, the film was first publicly screened July 1926 in Paris with the help of Jean Renoir.

Saturday’s free screening of the film will be in the Nevada Museum of Art’s theater on 160 W. Liberty St. in Reno. During the screening there will be an original live score performed by local musicians including members of the Reno Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Cathedral Ghost, Marital Impulses, Bindle Stiffs, Elephant Rifle, Fa Fa Fa, Frontiersmen, and Memory Motel.