Lotte Reiniger s 117th Birthday Google Doodle

Lotte Reininger created visually stunning and fantastical films using black cardboard, scissors, and boundless imagination. Predating Walt Disney by nearly a decade, Reiniger pioneered a style of animation that relied on thousands of photos of paper cutout silhouettes arranged to tell a story. It was a painstaking process that involved moving paper characters ever so slightly and snapping a photo of each movement. She created many films over the years, including The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest