German female silhouette animator who created "The Adventures of Prince Archimedes"

On June 2, the 117th birthday of German silhouette animator and film director Lotte Reininger, Google specially produced a 1-and-a-half-minute graffiti video to occupy the homepage in order to commemorate this outstanding female filmmaker who has made outstanding contributions to the art of film, showing Reniger's pioneering spirit and characteristics in a unique and interesting way.

Lot Reniger was a pioneer in silhouette cinema, creating bizarre, visually stunning films through black cardboard, scissors, and boundless imagination. In 1926, Reniger filmed the first feature film, The Adventures of Prince Archimedes. This paper-cut animated feature film is not only recognized as a classic in the field of paper-cut animation, but also historians believe that this work is the first animated feature film in the true sense.

After the advent of sound films, in addition to making fairy tale films, she also directed a number of feature films, including Ten Mozart (1930), a parody comedy film Carmen (1933) and Mudi (1935), based on The Magic Flute, which reflected her love of music. She then directed two musical films, Helen The Beauty (1957) and Boudoir (1958), produced by herself. Her last work was the cut film Rose and the Ring (1979). She is also considered one of the great figures of the German film industry.

Reniger pioneered new forms of animation by using thousands of paper-based silhouettes to tell a story, a complex process that involved precisely moving paper images and capturing images at the same time as each movement. Even a century later, Reiniger's work still influences and inspires animators and artists.