Comment by 1659447091
4 days ago
No, they are not traditional shadow puppets. According to the wiki you linked, "Reiniger pioneered silhouette animation" where "shadow-play-like puppets are filmed frame-by-frame"
They are similar in visual style but different in form and method.
> In the 1910s, the German animator Lotte Reiniger pioneered silhouette animation as a format, whereby shadow-play-like puppets are filmed frame-by-frame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_play#Shadow_puppetry_to...
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