1899
Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (died 1981)
Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (died 1981)
Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (died 1981)
Lotte Reiniger
German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
- Born
- 1899
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for having devised, from 1923 to 1926, the first form of a multiplane camera, one of the most important devices in pre digital animation. Reiniger worked on more than 40 films throughout her career.