Lotte Reiniger was one of the twentieth century’s major animation artists, pioneering a distinctive style of black and white silhouette animation in her interpretations of classic myths and fairy tales. Reiniger began her career in Germany, making The Adventures of Prince Achmed, one of the first and most ingenious full-length animated films in the history of cinema. After the war, she moved to Britain with her husband Carl Koch and made short films for the GPO and later, in collaboration with Primrose Productions, an extensive series of famous fairy tale short films. This is a DVD collection of her work.

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawye...

Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns ...

Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. ...

Ilya Muromets has to rescue his trusty horse Burushka and Kiev treasury from the greedy hands of the...

One day, Happiness and Sorrow come to town. Happiness leaves her magical cloak in the local inn, say...
An evil and calculating stepmother chases her stepson out of the house. Petr tries in vain to find a...

Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of...

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a ...

Sumikkogurashi debuted in 2012 as slightly negative characters who like to stay in the corner of a r...

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, ...

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the u...

When Prince Vain got his shirt fixed, he proclaims that he had slain two lizards in front of the tai...

Henriette is a princess; she is playing with her ball, but drops it into a well. A talking frog repl...

The Big Bad Wolf stalks Little Bo Peep and steals one of her sheep. She enlists Little Boy Blue and ...

Fairy tales collide when Mambo and Munk tip the scales of good and evil once again.

Wang Sheng, a Ming-Dynasty scholar who just failed the Imperial Examination, works together with his...

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curs...

The daughter of a king, who also is a wizard, helps her beloved to outwit her father.
Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wo...