The Seven Ravens (1937 film)

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The Seven Ravens
Thesevenravens.jpg
2004 DVD cover
Directed byFerdinand Diehl
Hermann Diehl
Screenplay byPaul Diehl
Based onThe Seven Ravens
by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Produced by
Cinematography
Music by
Release date
  • 2 December 1937 (1937-12-02)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryNazi Germany
LanguageGerman

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[]

  • List of stop-motion films
  • List of animated feature-length films

Sources[]

  1. ^ "Walt Disney".
  2. ^ Dobson, Nichola; Roe, Annabelle Honess; Ratelle, Amy; Ruddell, Caroline (2018-10-18). The Animation Studies Reader. ISBN 9781501332630.

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