Lotte Reiniger Archives - Cathrin Hagey https://www.cathrinhagey.com/tag/lotte-reiniger/ Author and Blogger Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:39:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 67173325 Stories in Paper https://www.cathrinhagey.com/stories-in-paper/ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:04:45 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=2013 In a previous post I wrote about my own “discovery” of Lotte Reiniger and her pioneering work in film animation using scenes and characters made out of paper. Her most famous work, the first full length animated motion picture, Prince Achmed, is available on DVD at the Saskatoon Public Library. I found it one day […]

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]]> 2013 Lotte Reiniger, Pioneer Filmmaker and Storyteller https://www.cathrinhagey.com/lotte-reiniger-pioneer-filmmaker-and-storyteller/ Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:29:23 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=1470 If you believe, as I did up until last week, that Walt Disney created the first full length animated feature film (Snow White, 1937), then you must watch the The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (1926). Reiniger used hand-cut silhouettes, a back-lit glass screen, and an original score by composer Wolfgang Zeller to […]

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