Movies

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a companion to an old woman, Reiniger has her...

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a...

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

Because Dummling has a good heart, fate leads him to a princess waiting for rescue.

Sleeping Beauty

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Lotte Reiniger's last film, following the adventures of two kingdoms through the overseeing eye of a destiny-knitting witch.

A princess's ball falls into a well and is rescued by a frog but she has to make a promise before he gives it back.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

The first film directed by influential German-born silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is delightfully reminiscent of a Valentine’s Day card...

A love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin"...

Silhouette film – a version of Offenbach’s opera, “La belle Helene”.

Chronicles the life and work of animator Lotte Reiniger.

One of Lotte Reiniger's very last animated silhouette films, issued both in French and English versions.

Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.

Silhouette film illustrating the growth of wheeled traffic from the earliest tim es to the modern car.