Craig Kringle: I watched Adventure Time religiously with my kids (and multiple times with my younger son who adores it), and I was immediately captured by the ads for Over the…
Lotte Reiniger is known today for her extraordinarily elaborate silhouette animations. Her 1926 feature, “The Adventures of Prince Achmed,” is the oldest surviving full-length animated film. This short documentary provides…
Long before Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, director Lotte Reiniger created a breathtaking silhouette-animated fantasy inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. In this video, we explore the…
Learn how to make hand-drawn animation from start to finish. In this tutorial, animator Kohana Wilson (they/them) walks through the tools, techniques, and principles behind classic paper animation, from your…
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (German: Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) is a 1926 German animated fairytale film, written and directed by Lotte Reiniger. Since two earlier Quirino Cristiani films…
The purpose of California’s film tax credit is to encourage studios to create and retain production jobs in the state.
Iranian-French cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, who won acclaim for her graphic novel "Persepolis" about growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, died on June 4, 2026 at age 56. In…
Koji Yamamura is an independent animator known for his short films such as Mount Head, A Country's Doctor or more recently Muybridge's Strings. After visiting his atelier, we will follow…
Welcome to The 120 Minutes Archive, the independent, critically acclaimed, definitive library of music video nostalgia. Since 2003, we’ve been traveling through time to rediscover and share the legacy of…