The King of Silent Animation made me immediately think that Lotte Reiniger[1] must be its Queen. Now, the King in the article is not a creator but a contemporary collector but you might enjoy the Lotte Reiniger piece as well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231122122746/https://www.nytim...

If we're talking about early masters of stop-motion, Ladislas Starevich also deserves a mention (although his most famous film, Le Roman de Renard had sound).

[0] https://archive.org/details/LeRomanDeRenard_1930/Le+Roman+de...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Fox

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us_Pn6Q1dBQ

Her The Adventures of Prince Ahmed [1] is amazing — and one of the 1001 Films to See Before You Die:

[1] https://youtu.be/VnwrOBvZ4po

Linked in the article, Somewhere in Dreamland [1] has been a staple "Christmas movie" in our family since my daughters were very young. Besides admiring the amazing animation tricks in the piece I like the song and the way it reminds me of my own childhood (wishing for those things I knew my mother could not afford). Very sweet.

[1] https://youtu.be/hSXo5EMY-vA

Not a bad restoration, but what a shame about the heavy watermarking :(

Strange: not one mention of how flammable old film can be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Nitrate_film_fi...

Shout out to Raleigh NC’s Skip Elsheimer, AV Geeks https://avgeeks.com/