Lotte Reiniger Movies

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes...

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sleeping Beauty

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

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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...

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