Dr. Dolittle has arrived in the land of monkeys, where gorillas, orangutans, baboons and spiders await medical attention. But how can one do it alone? Luckily, the animals of the desert want to help.
Practical Effects
Reiniger's hand-cut silhouette animation — every frame is a tiny miracle.
Direction
Silent-era storytelling so efficient it puts modern bloated films to shame.
Director
Lotte Reiniger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lotte Reiniger invented the multiplane camera technique years before Disney claimed credit for it in Snow White.
This is part of three Dolittle tales she animated; most surviving prints are truncated or mislabeled in archives.
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