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  2. Silhouette animation - Wikipedia

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    Traditional silhouette animation as invented by Reiniger is subdivision of cutout animation (itself one of the many forms of stop motion).It utilizes figures cut out of paperboard, sometimes reinforced with thin metal sheets, and tied together at their joints with thread or wire (usually substituted by plastic or metal paper fasteners in contemporary productions) which are then moved frame-by ...

  3. Cutout animation - Wikipedia

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    Video about making cutout animation, in Spanish with English subtitles. Cutout animation is a form of stop-motion animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or photographs. The props would be cut out and used as puppets for stop motion. The world's earliest known animated feature ...

  4. Lotte Reiniger - Wikipedia

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    Lotte Reiniger. Charlotte " Lotte " Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for having devised, from 1923 ...

  5. History of animation - Wikipedia

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    The earliest surviving animated feature film is the 1926 silhouette-animated Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (Adventures of Prince Achmed), which used colour-tinted film. [31] It was directed by German Lotte Reiniger and her husband Carl Koch. Walter Ruttmann created visual background effects.

  6. Shadow play - Wikipedia

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    A performance of wayang, an Indonesian shadow puppet form. Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include ...

  7. The Adventures of Prince Achmed - Wikipedia

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    It is the oldest surviving animated feature film. [2] (Two earlier ones had been made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani, but they are considered to be lost. [3]) The Adventures of Prince Achmed features a silhouette animation technique Reiniger had invented that involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a ...

  8. The Clown and His Donkey - Wikipedia

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    The Clown and His Donkey is a 1910 animated short film featuring silhouette animation. It was written, directed, and produced by the British animator Charles Armstrong. [ 1] It was his third known silhouette animated film, following The Sporting Mice (1909) and Votes for Women: A Caricature (1909). The Clown and His Donkey is Armstrong's only ...

  9. Rotoscoping - Wikipedia

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    Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, live-action movie images were projected onto a glass panel and traced onto paper. This projection equipment is referred to as a rotoscope, developed by Polish-American animator Max Fleischer. [1]