Lotte Reiniger
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Lotte Reiniger was a German animator renowned for her pioneering work in silhouette animation. Inspired by shadow puppetry, she created intricate scenes using cut-out figures, often adapting folktales and children's literature. Her most significant work, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), is considered by some to be the first animated feature film. This meticulous process, which earned her the nickname "The Mistress of Shadows," involved over two years of dedicated effort. Reiniger also produced films based on musical themes by composers like Mozart and Stravinsky, continuing her work in England until the 1970s.1
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motion-picture technologyNoncellular animation…include silhouette animation, developed by Lotte Reiniger in Germany during the 1920s. It uses jointed, flat-figure marionettes whose poses are minutely readjusted for each photographic frame. Movement is similarly simulated in puppet animation, which photographs solid three-dimensional figures in miniature sets. The puppets are often made of a malleable yet…
Read More…include silhouette animation, developed by Lotte Reiniger in Germany during the 1920s. It uses jointed, flat-figure marionettes whose poses are minutely readjusted for each photographic frame. Movement is similarly simulated in puppet animation, which photographs solid three-dimensional figures in miniature sets. The puppets are often made of a malleable yet…
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puppetryShadow figures…made by the German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger in the 1920s; for these films, the screen was placed horizontally, like a tabletop, a light was placed beneath it, the camera was above it, looking downward, and the figures were moved by hand on the screen, being photographed by the stop-action technique.…
Read More…made by the German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger in the 1920s; for these films, the screen was placed horizontally, like a tabletop, a light was placed beneath it, the camera was above it, looking downward, and the figures were moved by hand on the screen, being photographed by the stop-action technique.…
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animationAnimation in Europe…puppet theater of Thailand, Germany’s Lotte Reiniger employed animated silhouettes to create elaborately detailed scenes derived from folktales and children’s books. Her The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) may have been the first animated feature; it required more than two years of patient work and earned her the nickname “The…
Read More…puppet theater of Thailand, Germany’s Lotte Reiniger employed animated silhouettes to create elaborately detailed scenes derived from folktales and children’s books. Her The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) may have been the first animated feature; it required more than two years of patient work and earned her the nickname “The…
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