The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100

Despite this inauspicious beginning, Reiniger would soon earn a place in cinema history. Just a few years after her rodent-wrangling experience, she was in the director's chair. That was extraordinary enough – in the 1920s, few women were given the opportunity to direct. But Reiniger's project was particularly innovative. Released a century ago in 1926, The Adventures of Prince Achmed is recognised as the world's oldest surviving animated feature film – despite what Walt Disney's publicists might prefer you to think. Disney's Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs is often considered to be the first ever animated feature. But Lotte beat Walt by more than a decade.