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Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.
A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl
When a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a curse and have to live their lives as ravens, she goes out in a quest to find them. Considered to be the first German feature length stop motion film.
A German explorer sails in his U-boat, Nautilus, all the way to the North Pole.
At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers do it anyway and then send them the matching clothes, they stop working but continue to help the cobblers.
A Silver Bear winning short animation.
Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a field [filmportal].