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Lotte Reiniger Flipbook

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Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best-known films areThe Adventures of Prince Achmed from 1926 - thought to be one of the oldest surviving feature-length animated films - and Papageno from 1935. In devising a forerunner of the multiplane camera for certain effects, she anticipated Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney by a decade. She made more than 40 films, all using her invention. The flip book comes with an Augmented Reality feature, that you can visualize when scanning the front cover with your smartphone or tablet: a 3 minutes mini-documentary about Reiniger's life, her background and her most outstanding work.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 2 reviews)

Victoria ★★★★★

The flip action actually makes the silhouette figures move the way her films did, which I wasn't expecting from something this small. I've flipped through the Prince Achmed sequence probably twenty times now and it still feels like watching a tiny movie.

Brian L. ★★★★★

I got this for my animation-obsessed friend and couldn't stop flipping through it myself. Watching Prince Achmed's silhouettes come to life page by page is such a lovely way to experience her work up close.