The Star of Bethlehem (1956 TV Short)
Probably Is A New Use of the Reiniger Film
21 December 2008
Her first job was doing cut-out titles for Paul Wegener's Pied Piper of Hamlin. The Start of Bethlehem was probably her's, made when she was about 21 or 22 in Germany. On Achemed she was using a double plane animation stand (long before Disney). She and her husband Carl Koch (who is credited on Star of Bethlehem) built all their own equipment. She moved, in the 1950's and 60's to an Artists Colony in the UK, run by the owner of Primrose Productions who colorized some of her older films and distributed them. Her independent works were later for the BBC and NFBC. Cathedral probably got this from Primrose, who probably ended up with all her extant holdings after her death. There may be leads to this in her book "Shadow Theater and Shadow Films" which, I think, has a filmography.
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