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Animal Shorts

The Magic Horse

10m

Directed by Lotte Reiniger • 1953 • United Kingdom

Lotte Reiniger returns to the character of Prince Achmed for this “Arabian Nights”–inspired fantasy in which our hero takes off on a flying horse.

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