Lotte Reiniger Movies

Ping Pong receives a bottle of alcohol as a gift from the Emperor. When he gets drunk and chokes on a fish bone, no one in the city wants to take...

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

On his way inland, Dr. Dolittle and his animals encounter a nasty surprise. Natives capture them and hold them under lock and key.

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

Lotte that Silhouette Girl is a short animated documentary about the fantastic and creative life of film pioneer Lotte Reiniger, who was a rockstar...

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

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

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

Zehn Minuten Mozart was Reiniger's first attempt at merging silhouette animation with music.

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.

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

Sleeping Beauty

"The Frog Prince" was one of several adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairytales that Lotte Reiniger made in London between 1953 and 1955: others...

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