Papageno (1935)

This part is adapted from Mozart's famous opera "Magic Flute" paper-cut animation short film, around the Fowler Papageno, tells a love story of lovers getting married. The hero Papageno is a happy Fowler. He meets a beautiful girl in the jungle and the two fall in love quickly. But the fierce serpent took his lover. After a period of untold hardships, Papageno finally began a bright and happy life with the girl he adored. This paper-cut animated short film, produced in 1935, is directed by German female director Lotte Reinig. As a pioneer of silhouette films, Lott created an amazing world of animation art with scissors and paper. However, this extraordinary means of image expression, because of the huge workload, did not become the mainstream of animation art at that time. Lott is to control this incomparable and beyond the form of animation, with Mozart's profound music melody, set up a unique animation art monument. She is also considered to be one of the great figures in German cinema.