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I might not have discovered the beautifully imagined magical world of Lotte Reiniger if it wasn’t for Fritzi’s Voracious appetite for the innovative spirit of women in the film industry particularly silent films. My particular favorite is her Thumbelina or Däumelinchen -An ethereal journey that is engaging and lovely. In reverence to Women’s History Month, … Continue reading The Art of Lotte Reiniger: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Pre-dating Walt Disney, she pioneered a style of animation using thousands of photos of paper cut-out silhouettes arranged to tell a story
The popular history of animation starts with Walt Disney—a tragic oversight and a considerably US-centric misconception. In addition to the pre-Disney animation in America, the Soviets were making cartoons early on (starting with cautionary propaganda, of course) and the Japanese produced amazing early animation referencing folklore. However, the most beautiful and ambitious of early cartoons have to be from Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger, a German filmmaker who produced lush, elaborate scenes using stop-motion with excruciatingly detailed silhouette cut-outs. Even more impressive was the duration of her films—which qualify as features—made ten years before Disney’s Snow White, which is generally recognized as the first animated feature film. Below you can watch Reiniger’s most famous work, 1935’s Papageno, which was set to music from Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute.” While it lacked the production values of some of her later features, Papageno is the most fantastical, following Papageno the birdcatcher’s quest to find his true love. The silhouettes themselves are a perfect example of Reiniger’s cut-out style, which was inspired by Chinese silhouette puppetry. The cut-outs were generally set against brightly monochromatic backgrounds, but the painstakingly cut scenery and subjects really pop...
In 1926, eleven years before Walt Disney’s Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, German animator Lotte Reiniger released her full-length silhouette animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed.…
Lotte Reiniger. Pygmalion's Servant. Puppet from the silhouette film "Galatea" (Germany, 1935)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Reiniger made more
I might not have discovered the beautifully imagined magical world of Lotte Reiniger if it wasn’t for Fritzi’s Voracious appetite for the innovative spirit of women in the film industry particularly silent films. My particular favorite is her Thumbelina or Däumelinchen -An ethereal journey that is engaging and lovely. In reverence to Women’s History Month, … Continue reading The Art of Lotte Reiniger: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
An artist working in the 20th century, Lotte Reiniger found her inspiration in Chinese shadow puppetry. In 1926, she pioneered silhouette animation(take that, disney!) by creating the first full l…
A pesar de ser prácticamente una desconocida, Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) es una figura imprescindible en el mundo del cine. Pionera del cine de animación, es la creadora del largometraje de animaci…
Lotte Reiniger developed her own style of paper silhouettes and the multi-plane camera she used to film them making around 60 films.
Black silhouette figure by Lotte Reiniger of Alexandra Danilova and Léonde Massine in Léonde Massine’s ballet La Boutique fantasque, as performed by the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1930s
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I might not have discovered the beautifully imagined magical world of Lotte Reiniger if it wasn’t for Fritzi’s Voracious appetite for the innovative spirit of women in the film industry particularly silent films. My particular favorite is her Thumbelina or Däumelinchen -An ethereal journey that is engaging and lovely. In reverence to Women’s History Month, … Continue reading The Art of Lotte Reiniger: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Pre-dating Walt Disney, she pioneered a style of animation using thousands of photos of paper cut-out silhouettes arranged to tell a story
Lotte Reiniger, Galathea, 1935 Thumbelina, Lotte Reiniger, 1954 The Frog Prince, 1954 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926 Lotte Reiniger, Papageno, 1935 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926 Cinderella, 1922 / directed by Lotte Reiniger Cinderella, 1922 / directed by Lotte Reiniger Cinderella, 1922 / directed by Lotte Reiniger Lotte Reiniger for the Christmas Number of 'The Illustrated London News', 1960 Lotte Reiniger for the Christmas Number of 'The Illustrated London News', 1960 Cinderella, 1922 / directed by Lotte Reiniger Lotte Reiniger (1899 - 1981) Lotte Reiniger, 1922 Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926—thought to be one of the oldest surviving feature-length animated films—and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for having devised the first form of a multiplane camera; she made more than 40 films, all using her invention.
