Lotte Reiniger - Hansel and Gretel

reiniger needed 16 different photos for a one-second-film. imagine how long she worked on this 10,5 min film!!!

I second that, a story of cannibalism - protein-deprived woman enticing lost innocents with carbs. Yowza

I AGREE

I heard a different version as a kid...they need to get their story straight...

This story has always creeped me out :( An old lady kidnapping lost children, trying to feed them up to eat them later :x

this is very alluring.

pretty shadow-puppet art, I agree

omg it's been nearly 50 years since I watched these! Somewhere they have alin hidden in my memory and just been released along with others of sitting infront of some huge box whilst mum made tea! Talk about a trip down nostalia alley! many thanks!

This film and two others can be seen daily on a large screen in an open movie theater, as many times as you care to sit for them. They are played in endless rotation in the castle park in Ludwigsburg, Germany, next to the playground. Rather than an English voiceover, there are German titles in separate frames and the music is there. I find this voiceover annoying and distracting. One tends to focus more on the visual when there is no naration, so the film's beauty becomes more pronounced.

Thanks for that maydoll !! What a gift !!!