The Seven Ravens (1937 film)
| The Seven Ravens | |
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 2004 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Ferdinand Diehl Hermann Diehl |
| Screenplay by | Paul Diehl |
| Based on | The Seven Ravens by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm |
| Produced by | Puppentrickfilm |
| Cinematography | Alfonse Lufteck |
| Music by | Walter Pepper |
Release date |
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Running time | 53 minutes |
| Country | Nazi Germany |
| Language | German |
The Seven Ravens (German: Die sieben Raben) is a German stop motion-animated fairy tale film directed by the Diehl brothers. It was released in Germany on 2 December 1937. The film is notable for being an animated feature film based on a Grimms' fairy tales story which premiered only a few weeks before Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In that respect it is often cited as one of the first animated feature films.[1][2]
Plot
The plot is based on the fairy tale of the same name which was written by the Brothers Grimm.
See also
Sources
- ^ "Walt Disney".
- ^ Dobson, Nichola; Roe, Annabelle Honess; Ratelle, Amy; Ruddell, Caroline (2018-10-18). The Animation Studies Reader. ISBN 9781501332630.
External links
- The Seven Ravens at IMDb
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- The Seven Ravens at AllMovie (contains some incorrect information)
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- 1937 films
- 1937 animated films
- 1930s children's fantasy films
- German black-and-white films
- Films based on Grimms' Fairy Tales
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German animated films
- German children's fantasy films
- 1930s German-language films
- 1930s stop-motion animated films
- Animated feature films
- Films about birds
- Films based on fairy tales
- 1930s German films
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