Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (died 1981)

Lotte Reiniger

German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)

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…