Reiniger, Lotte
Reiniger, Lotte (1899–1981),pioneer exponent of silhouette films and director of the world's first animated feature, a fantasy culled from The Arabian Nights . Born in Berlin, she had developed her free‐hand scissor technique, and made her first short film, by the age of 20. Her method of animation was simple: having designed and cut out her protagonists from paper, she joined together the different parts of each body by means of wire hinges. The figures were then arranged directly beneath the camera on a horizontal glass table lit from below. After exposing one frame of film, she would slightly modify the position of the figures, and then expose the next.
Her feeling for character and how to communicate it in a silhouette extended right down to the fingertips: an evil character would be given wicked hands as well as an evil face and posture. This art can be seen gradually reaching its peak...
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