{"id":12512,"date":"2023-05-16T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:36:11","slug":"dones-titellaires-oblidades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/dones-titellaires-oblidades\/","title":{"rendered":"FORGOTTEN WOMEN PUPPETS. Lotte Reiniger, animation pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FORGOTTEN WOMEN PUPPETS. Lotte Reiniger, Animation Pioneer<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The first animated films were not by Walt Disney, but by the German director Lotte Reiniger.<\/p>\n

They seemed to be only shadows. Shadows of people, animals and plants, made of paper, brought to life by Lotte Reiniger. Born in Berlin in 1899, this artist worked by filming every detail and every movement with exquisite thoroughness using the scissor technique. So much so that, for his film "The Adventures of Prince Ahmed", the first animated feature film in history, he needed no less than three years.<\/p>\n

You can see a sample of the film in the following video:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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LIGHT TABLE<\/strong><\/p>

I needed 25 frames for every second of film. In total, about 100,000. And to achieve this he had to work with absolute precision to move each figure exactly to create the feeling of fluid movement, preventing the figures from appearing static. To achieve this, Reiniger developed the scissors technique. He used an empty table in the center, on which he placed a glass and transparent paper. Similar to the lamp table, he placed his cut-out figures on the paper so that the light from below highlighted the silhouette. By overlapping several glass plates, he simulated the depth later seen on film, giving the impression that the figures were moving in space.<\/p>

A technique that served him, for example, to simulate scenes such as the movement of waves. Films of great artistic value like "Cenincienta", "Carmen", "Coro Robado" or "Papageno" came out of his animation desk in Berlin. Generally with themes related to stories, myths or opera librettos. She herself stated: "I am obsessed with ballet, cinema and theatre, and I am a Mozart fanatic".<\/p>

An international figure<\/strong><\/p>

Lotte Reiniger died in 1982 near T\u00fcbingen. In Germany, his name had practically fallen into oblivion. But abroad, his mastery is still appreciated as could be seen in the tribute that Google paid him for the 117th anniversary of his birth. His film \u201cThe Adventures of Prince Ahmed\u201d is available at almost all Goethe Institutes and there it is one of the most requested silent films worldwide.<\/p>

Nowadays, anyone who has anything to do with the animated film scene remembers the figure of Lotte Reiniger and her role as a pioneer. This is seen, for example, in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", where in the last scene a tale is told using the technique of Reiniger's scissors. Also in the well-known animated film "Persepolis", by Marjane Satrapi, there are many references to this great pioneer of animation, which Germany is trying to rediscover.<\/p>

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DONES TITELLAIRES OBLIDADES. Lotte Reiniger, Pionera De La Animaci\u00f3 Les primeres pel\u00b7l\u00edcules d’animaci\u00f3 no van ser de Walt Disney, sin\u00f3 de la directora alemanya Lotte Reiniger. Semblava que nom\u00e9s eren ombres. Ombres de persones, animals i plantes, fetes de paper, que cobraven vida de mans de Lotte Reiniger. Nascuda a Berl\u00edn el 1899, aquesta artista […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dones-titellaires","tag-titellaires"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12548,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions\/12548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudetitelles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}