Category: Myth, Fantasy, Folklore, Fairy Tales

  • Lotte Reiniger, Pioneer Filmmaker and Storyteller

    Lotte Reiniger, Pioneer Filmmaker and Storyteller

    If you believe, as I did up until last week, that Walt Disney created the first full length animated feature film (Snow White, 1937), then you must watch the The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (1926). Reiniger used hand-cut silhouettes, a back-lit glass screen, and an original score by composer Wolfgang Zeller to…