maudelynn: Still from silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger’s  Cinderella (1922).

maudelynn:

Still from silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger’s  Cinderella (1922).

thecinematheque: Achmed was painstakingly crafted in 1926. THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED screens today (Sept 18) at 1pm. All ages welcome! $6 under 18 / $9 over.

thecinematheque:

Achmed was painstakingly crafted in 1926.

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED screens today (Sept 18) at 1pm. All ages welcome! $6 under 18 / $9 over.

theloudestvoice: Lotte Reiniger (June 2, 1899 - June 19, 1981) I wanted to do more for Lotte Reiniger’s birthday but I’ve been easily distracted today so I’ll just include this quote from the link, along with a couple of other posts: “Lotte Reiniger’s career as an independent filmmaker is among the longest and most singular in film history, spanning some 60 years (1919-79) of actively creating silhouette animation films. Her The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the world’s first feature-length animation film, made when she was in her mid-twenties and winning considerable acclaim. Silhouette animation existed before 1919, but Reiniger was its preeminent practitioner, transforming a technically and aesthetically bland genre to a recognized art form. Since childhood she had excelled at freehand cut-outs and shadow theatres. As a teenager at Max Reinhardt’s acting studio, she was invited by actor-director Paul Wegener to make silhouette decorations for the credits and intertitles of The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918); she also helped animate the film’s wooden rats, when live guinea pigs proved unmanageable. The rest of Reiniger’s professional life was wholeheartedly devoted to silhouette animation, with an occasional retreat to shadow plays or book illustrations when money was not available for films.”

theloudestvoice:

Lotte Reiniger (June 2, 1899 - June 19, 1981)

I wanted to do more for Lotte Reiniger’s birthday but I’ve been easily distracted today so I’ll just include this quote from the link, along with a couple of other posts:

“Lotte Reiniger’s career as an independent filmmaker is among the longest and most singular in film history, spanning some 60 years (1919-79) of actively creating silhouette animation films. Her The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the world’s first feature-length animation film, made when she was in her mid-twenties and winning considerable acclaim. Silhouette animation existed before 1919, but Reiniger was its preeminent practitioner, transforming a technically and aesthetically bland genre to a recognized art form. Since childhood she had excelled at freehand cut-outs and shadow theatres. As a teenager at Max Reinhardt’s acting studio, she was invited by actor-director Paul Wegener to make silhouette decorations for the credits and intertitles of The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918); she also helped animate the film’s wooden rats, when live guinea pigs proved unmanageable. The rest of Reiniger’s professional life was wholeheartedly devoted to silhouette animation, with an occasional retreat to shadow plays or book illustrations when money was not available for films.”

theloudestvoice: Working on The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926

theloudestvoice:

Working on The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926


alexandra-ewing:

31. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)

I make a conscious effort to keep my film updates to one still or the occasional ten, but this is too beautiful to limit myself to just one photoset.


alexandra-ewing:

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)

hollyhocksandtulips: Silhouette by Lotte Reiniger so this is from die abenteuer des prinzen achmed which i am TOTALLY SEEING AT THE CINEMA TOMORROW i may not survive tbh

hollyhocksandtulips:

Silhouette by Lotte Reiniger

so this is from die abenteuer des prinzen achmed which i am TOTALLY SEEING AT THE CINEMA TOMORROW

i may not survive tbh

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awesomeshitwomendid: Wrote, directed, and animated the oldest surviving full-length stop motion animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923) and also anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane animation camera. (Lotte Reiniger) YES OMFG I LOVE HER SO MUCH SO MUCH the scene this cap is from blew my MIND omfg all the little fragmented ripples of reflection in the water that CONSTANTLY MOVED i mean you have to see that shit to believe it. by the end of the movie i was basically crying on the floor 

awesomeshitwomendid:

Wrote, directed, and animated the oldest surviving full-length stop motion animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923) and also anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane animation camera. (Lotte Reiniger)

YES OMFG I LOVE HER SO MUCH

SO

MUCH

the scene this cap is from blew my MIND omfg all the little fragmented ripples of reflection in the water that CONSTANTLY MOVED i mean you have to see that shit to believe it. by the end of the movie i was basically crying on the floor 

(Source: awesomestuffwomendid)



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