Certainly, as soon as Reiniger accepted the proposition, she took on only a handful of workers. This included a number of animators, an assistant to trace the frames shot, and Reiniger’s husband, who managed the digital camera. In addition to directing, Reiniger constructed the silhouette puppets herself, reducing characters from cardboard and lead, earlier than fixing their joints with wire hinges. She additionally devised the movie’s situation, combining a number of Center Jap fairy tales into one story, The Adventures of Prince of Achmed.
