An innovative picture book biography about an unsung hero of early animation

Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) was a German film director and animator

best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full 11 years before Disney's Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than 40 films throughout her long career, most of which were fairytales that used her stop-film animation technique of hand-cut silhouettes. Reiniger is now seen as the

foremost pioneer of silhouette animation and the inventor of an early form of the multiplane camera. With art inspired by Reiniger's cut-paper style and

a text that uses a fairytale motif that mimics her movies, Out of the Shadows is a sweeping tribute to one of most important figures of animation, whose influence still resonates today.

这是一本创新的传记绘本，赞颂了早期动画的幕后英雄

洛特·莱尼格（Lotte Reiniger）是一位德国电影导演和动画师，以《阿基米德王子历险记》而闻名，该片于1926年上映，是现存最早的动画电影。（它比迪斯尼的《白雪公主》整整早了11年！）莱尼格从小就喜欢读童话故事，并爱上了木偶戏。在学校，她学会了剪纸，这帮助她创造了她标志性的剪影风格。之后在她漫长的职业生涯中，她拍摄了40多部电影，其中大部分是童话故事，使用了她的剪影动画技术。莱尼格现在被视为剪影动画重要先驱，也是早期多平面摄影机的发明者。《剪影背后》的艺术灵感来自莱尼格的剪纸风格，文本采用了童话主题，模仿了她的电影，是对这一动画界重要人物的全面致敬，其影响深远至今。