Lotte Reiniger Flipbook

This flipbook features six different stories depending on the position of your thumb as well as augmented reality, viewable when scanning the slipcase with your smartphone or tablet: a 2-minutes micro-documentary about the artists life, his background and his most outstanding work.  THE MASTER OF SILHOUETTE ANIMATION Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best-known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed from 1926 - thought to be one of the oldest surviving feature-length animated films - and Papageno from 1935. In devising a forerunner of the multiplane camera for certain effects, she anticipated some of the greatests animators of all time by a decade. She made more than 40 films, all using her invention.