Lotte Reiniger and husband working on silhouette film

Dec. 21 Lotte Reiniger's husband, formerly a film director and now a script writer, helps her with the final editing of the film. Silhouette Film Pioneer Makes Films For Children's Television: Back in 1910 Lotte Reiniger made the first sihouette film of all time and ever since she has been working at it and perfecting this fascinating form of film making. she is now working on a series of films which will be shown on Children's Television at the studio at the Abbey Arts Center at Barnet. Reiniger designs all her figures herself, having made a rough sketch of the outline she cuts it out of thin black cardboard with nail scissors. Each limb is cut separately and joined to the others by wire hinges, These are then laid on the trick table against scenery and backgrounds cut from black cardboard and various layers of white semi-transparent tissue paper (variation of layers gives shades of off-white gray and lends depth) and to achieve animation each limb is moved a fraction of an inch and photographed by the camera which is suspended above her head. For each tiny movement a different exposure is needed. The space between camera and trick table is never varied, distance being achieved by the use of smaller or larger figures. As most of her films are made for children, Miss Reiniger always tries out a new story on her little friends to note their reactions before finally deciding to film it

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