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Lotte Reiniger

Reiniger was born on June 2, 1899 in Germany. As a child, she was taken by Chinese shadow puppetry. When she got older, she joined the Theatre of Max Reinhardt where she made silhouettes of all the actors. The success in her work for the Theatre got her recognized and admitting into the Institute for Cultural Research, a film and animation studio. There she met her husband and made many different films that were both animated and later on, live action. However, when the rise of the Nazi Party occurred, she left Germany. The amount of movement in her life did not stop her from creating films and she made many more films before her death in 1981.

Lotte Reiniger specialized in silhouette animation. Which means, that her characters are flat and backlit. Reiniger created her characters by sketching them out on white paper to determine what their form would look like. Then she would use a white pencil and draw the silhouette on black paper. From there, she would cut out the pieces. Then she would put in small fasteners and the joints and parts of the figures that required movement. The figures were then flattened and were then ready to be used. They were placed on a light table and then were photographs and moved at appropriate intervals.

What is really distinctive about Reiniger's work is her style. The details in her work are so precise and it is amazing that it is just cut paper. Just because her characters are silhouettes doesn't mean that they can't be complex. Their costumes have shapes and movement implied with them. I also enjoy the delayed and jolty movements of the figures, I think it adds a lot of character. It is inspiring to me because they are such simple materials but they can be turned into something so complex and beautiful and requires so much care and dedication.

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La Jetee

The story of La Jetee is of a man who is a prisoner from a nuclear war in Paris. Scientists are trying to research time travel and they experiment on the prisoner. Apparently, this man is successful because of a strong childhood memory of a woman at the airport. During the experiment sessions, the man meets the woman from his memory and they enter a relationship with one another. The scientists then decide to send the man to the future, there he is given the power to restore his decimated society. The scientists then plan to kill the man but the people from the future save him and bring him back to the past to be with the woman. Then he is killed at the end and he realizes the man he saw in his memory was him.

The impact of pictures with sound is very great. They allow you to see all sorts of details and zoom in on the bigger picture. The sounds make an experience that is weird but interesting. The use of repeated sounds like the heartbeats, the choir music, and the whispering in german were able to create an atmosphere. Needless to say that they were effective because like the prisoner, I was confused and uncomfortable or given the feeling like I had saw my home destroyed. The narrator helps with providing a backstory and details that the text or images would have trouble conveying by themselves.

Overall, I was impressed by La Jetee. I doubted it the first time I saw it because without the English dub, it was hard to infer what the narrator was saying, therefore, I was disinterested and did not care for the story. After watching it in a language I didn't have to translate, I found I liked it a lot more and found the plot more engaging. The ending had the biggest impact as it made a full circle and I quite like stories where that occurs.

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Old Negro Space Program Response

When I first looked at this, I had no idea what it could possibly be like. There was only the name and the thumbnail on the screen to go by and boy was I confused. After watching it, I think that it was a pretty successful parody. Burns went out of the way to be really precise with the details. The video was obviously trying to be mocking a documentary type film because of the subject, photos, snippets of video of a character and historian, and also how the information was presented by a narrator. The way the images were panned into and shown was like many historical documentaries I've sat through. I also like how they even included that segment where a 'letter' of one of the astronauts was read. I laughed so hard. It was really not what I expected, it started off normal and then when the cadence and vocabulary changed, I couldn't help but release my mirth. The storytelling of the piece was really fluid. There was enough information to pass it as something that could have happened (in the opinion of an uneducated or dumb individual). I did some more research on the short and it seemed to be quite popular on the web, having its own website and merchandise. Overall, it was a good parody and deserved the attention it got.

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