stackyFACTSWhile Walt Disney gets the credit for inventing the multiplane camera, Lotte Reiniger was already stacking glass panes to create depth in her 1926 feature-length silhouette film, 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed'.
While Walt Disney gets the credit for inventing the multiplane camera, Lotte Reiniger was already stacking glass panes to create depth in her 1926 feature-length silhouette film, 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed'. This German pioneer painstakingly hand-cut lead and cardboard figures, maneuvering them across layered backlit glass to create intricate fairy tales years before Mickey Mouse even learned to whistle. History just conveniently gave the patent to the corporate giant.
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