Lotte Reiniger. Filmstills

When the film "The Adventure of Prince Achmed" by Lotte Reiniger celebrated its opening in Berlin und Paris in 1926, it became the first feature length animated film in cinema history. It has lost none of its fascination since then. Born in Berlin in 1899, the artist combined strikingly precise craftsmanship that was second to none in the cutting of silhouettes, with her interest in early film experiments.
This volume presents film stills from four films: in addition to "Prince Ahmed" "The Ornament of a Heart in Love" (1919), "Cinderella" (1922) and "Doctor Dolittle and His Animals" (1927/28). The stills show the development from short films which are still formally bound to the ornate ornamentation of Jugendstil, to playful, fairy-tale like stories with humorous, but also highly dramatic scenes. The stills provide convincing evidence for the scope of wit and wealth of ideas in the films.
A cooperation project of the Tübingen City Museum which administers the Lotte Reiniger estate, the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf and the Ernst Wasmuth Verlag.