Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.
Direction
Lotte Reiniger invented this whole aesthetic — pure pioneer energy.
Practical Effects
Hand-cut silhouette animation, frame by painstaking frame.
Score
Mozart slaps even when accompanying paper bird romance.
Director
Lotte Reiniger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reiniger created over 250,000 individual paper cutouts across her career, each jointed with thread for movement.
This was part of a 1930s trend of 'animated opera' shorts, but Reiniger's silhouette technique made hers the only ones that still feel modern.
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