“Aschenputtel” (1922) — based on the Brothers Grimm telling of Cinderella created by Lotte Reiniger, a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. As a young child, she didn’t have a cell phone, and learned the art of scherenschnitte, the German art of silhouette, inspired by the ancient Chinese art of paper cutting and silhouette puppetry. | FolkArtwork

Cinderella by Brothers Grimm | Summary & Characters

The Brothers Grimm fairy tales had unexpected origins