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4 unusual facts about Lotte Reiniger


Freddie Phillips

"Prince Achmed" (1954 – revision of the original 1926 film by Lotte Reiniger)

His television career began with providing musical scores for a pair of short films by Lotte Reiniger, and composing short pieces for use in television continuity.

Le Morte d'Arthur

The first was published anonymously in 1950; the second by Roger Lancelyn Green, Richard Lancelyn Green and Lotte Reiniger (illustrator), first published in 1953, and the third by Emma Gelders Sterne, Barbara Lindsay, Gustaf Tenggren and Mary Pope Osborne, published 2002.

The Flying Trunk

Lotte Reiniger made an animated silhouette film based on the tale in 1921.


Silhouette animation

It is, however, most likely that neither the German animator Lotte Reiniger nor the American puppeteer Tony Sarg knew of his work, and it was Reiniger who first established many of what are now the standard practices of the formant with her first film, Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens (The Ornament of the Enamoured Heart, 1919).


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