Aladdin gives the lamp to Jafar, who double-crosses him and kicks him and Abu into the cave, but Abu steals the lamp back. Once there, Aladdin frees a magic carpet and finds the lamp. He offers to make Aladdin rich enough to impress Jasmine in exchange for retrieving the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. While sneaking into the royal palace to visit Jasmine, Aladdin and Abu are captured by Jafar. Jafar, the Grand Vizier, schemes to overthrow the Sultan and seeks a magic lamp that only "the diamond in the rough" can retrieve. She wishes to succeed her father as Sultan, but is instead expected to marry one of her royal suitors. Plot Īladdin, an orphaned street urchin in the Arabian city of Agrabah, and his monkey, Abu, meet Princess Jasmine, who has sneaked away from her sheltered life in the palace. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its music, costume design, and the performances of Smith, Massoud, and Scott but criticism for Ritchie's direction, the CGI, and Kenzari's characterization of Jafar. Amongst Disney's live-action remakes, the film is the sixth-most-expensive and third-highest-grossing readaptation to date. It grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 2019. Additional filming and pick-ups took place in August 2018.Īladdin premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on May 8, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 24. Principal photography began that September at Longcross Studios in Surrey, England, also filming in the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan, and lasted until January 2018.
Smith was the first member of the cast to join, signing on to portray Genie in July 2017, and Massoud and Scott were confirmed for the two lead roles later that month. In October 2016, Disney announced Ritchie would direct a live-action Aladdin remake. The plot follows Aladdin, a street urchin, as he falls in love with Princess Jasmine, befriends a wish-granting genie, and battles the wicked sorcerer Jafar. The film stars Will Smith with Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, and Billy Magnussen in supporting roles. Co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback, it is a live-action remake of Disney's 1992 animated feature film of the same title, itself based on Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, a French addition to the Middle Eastern folk tale One Thousand and One Nights. The group publishes a newsletter, The Mystic Light of the Aladdin Knights and maintains a web site at is a 2019 American musical fantasy film directed by Guy Ritchie from a screenplay he co-wrote with John August. Their web site is Collectors and dealers of vintage Aladdin lamps have formed the Aladdin Knights to share their mutual interest. This new company carries on the tradition of making authentic Aladdin lamps and parts. In 1999, Aladdin Industries sold the lamp division to a group of collector-investors who formed the Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company in Clarksville, Tennessee. The company became well known for its children's lunch kits, thermos bottles and the unbreakable Stanley Bottle. In 1949, the company moved to Nashville, Tennessee and changed the business name to Aladdin Industries, Inc. The Mantle Lamp Company of America was located in Chicago, IL from 1908 to 1949. The tall chimney increases the draft and provides more air so the burner can sustain the higher temperature to heat the mantel to incandescence.
You can often spot an Aladdin because the chimney is slimmer and taller than chimneys on most other lamps. This blue flame burns at a higher temperature than wicks, heating the mantle to incandescence which produces the white light. Careful observation will reveal a small blue flame below the mantle, not the yellow flame of wick lamps. The mantle, made of a special mixture of rare earth oxides, produces light by a process called incandescence. The incandescent Aladdin mantle is far more efficient than a wick lamp. The Aladdin lamp is the last non-pressure, kerosene, incandescent mantle lamp made in the world today. All are collectible and useable today.Īladdin is perhaps best known as a brand of "coal oil" lamp. The company created special glass colors, made unique paper and glass shades, and beginning in the 1930s, started making Art Deco versions of electric lamps. The purpose of this report is to bring attention to the latest round of reproductions that can fool the unaware, especially in a dark auction ring.Īladdin lamps were made as table lamps, hanging lamps, floor lamps, wall lamps, and as caboose lamps. Reproductions and re-issues have been coming to market since about 1970. Reproductions of Aladdin Shades and LampsĪladdin lamps are increasingly popular among collectors who seek the colorful and rare lamps and shades made since 1908.
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