The astounding early silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/05/the-astounding-early-silhouette-animations-of-lotte-reiniger.html

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[ChuckV]

Here’s a great short one from her:

first animation film Lotte Reiniger Papageno 1935

[gracchus]

I remember my younger sister and I coming across “Prince Achmed” on TV when I was very little. The animation was so different from what we were used to, we spent the whole time giggling at it.

[RigelT]

I was just reading about this one yesterday while perusing the Top 100 Animation list on Letterboxd (#57) and lamenting that there didn’t appear to be anywhere to screen or stream it. Thank you for linking to a copy on YouTube!