Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte Reiniger- Film director Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and a pioneer of silhouette animation. Reiniger made more than 40 films over her career, all using her inventions. She was most famous for her invention of hypnotic films, crafted out of snippets of card and wire and animated by hand, she has influenced the generations of film makers and artist. She also made one of the worlds first animated film, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed". Film was Reinigers passion, when she was a little girl she was delighted by the trickery of films by George Melies, and later on the dreamy horrors of Paul Wegener (film director). She was also very interested for the Chinese art of shadow puppetry. As a young women she was keen to work with Paul Wegener, she found a job designing silhouettes for the inter-titles in his films. Her first step into animation was on his film 'The Piped Piper of Hamelin' in 1918. In the 1960s, Lotte Reiniger...
