German film director Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger, the pioneer of silhouette animation, has been honoured with a Google doodle on what would have been her 117th birthday.

Reiniger pioneered silhouette animation: Hand-making detailed black cardboard cutouts put together with wire hinges, she would bring her puppets to life by capturing small movements frame by frame ...

While present at the Festival in name and inspiration, Lotte Reiniger’s unbridled spirit and lifelong dedication to silhouette art/silhouette animation can be more fully experienced a mere 26 ...

Screenwriter and film historian Nannina Gilder will introduce "Silhouette Animation: The Genius of Lotte Reiniger" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum and on Zoom ...

BERLIN — Animation in silhouette makes for fine images and there are some nifty fables in French artist Michel Ocelot ‘s Tales of the Nigh t, but the design necessarily lacks facial expression ...

This legendary 1926 animated film, an Arabian Nights–style fairy tale, is like a fever dream from another world, consisting of excruciatingly detailed stop-motion silhouette animation. Ahead of ...