The Black and White Theater by Paul Vieillard
THE BLACK AND WHITE THEATRE OF PAUL VIEILLARD The discovery of electricity had important consequences for shadow theatre. At the beginning of 1900, students at the École polytechnique in Paris showed, on the occasion of the show offered for the annual festival of the school, silhouettes representing their teachers. The creators of these shadows competed […]
FORGOTTEN WOMEN PUPPETS. Lotte Reiniger, animation pioneer
FORGOTTEN WOMEN PUPPETS. Lotte Reiniger, Pioneer of Animation The first animated films were not by Walt Disney, but by the German director Lotte Reiniger. They seemed to be just shadows. Shadows of people, animals and plants, made of paper, that came to life at the hands of Lotte Reiniger. Born in Berlin in 1899, this artist […]
