Out of the Shadows

How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie

Read by: Natasha Soudek

Author: Fiona Robinson

Illustrator: Fiona Robinson

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Digital Audiobook

Age
6+

Duration
00:37.03

Published: 1st March 2022

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Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full 11 years before Disney’s Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than 40 films throughout her long career, most of which were fairytales that used her stop-film animation technique of hand-cut silhouettes. Reiniger is now seen as the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation and the inventor of an early form of the multiplane camera.

About the Author

Fiona Robinson is the author and illustrator of The Bluest of Blues, Ada's Ideas, Whale Shines, What Animals Really Like, The Useful Moose, and The 3-2-3 Detective Agency. Her work has been honored by the Royal Academy of Arts and has been featured in many gallery shows. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.