Eternal toad

Eternal toad

Wan Gu Chan (from January 18, 1900 to November 19, 1995), born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is one of the founders of Chinese animation and one of the famous Wan brothers. Wan Gu Chan graduated from Shanghai Art School in 1920 and entered the film department of Shanghai Commercial Press in 1925. In 1926, he joined the great wall painting company as an artist. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he participated in the creation of "Anti Japanese war song", "Anti Japanese War slogan" and other animation. In 1940, she created China's first animated feature film "Princess Iron Fan" in the cartoon department of Shanghai Xinhua United film company. In 1956, Wan Gu Chan was a paper-cut director in Shanghai art film studio, and in 1958, he created the paper-cut "pig eight quit eating melon". Since then, he has directed many animated films, such as "Fisherman", "Jigong fighting Cricket", "monkey turtle splitting tree", "ginseng Doll". He also served as a consultant of China Animation society and a deputy to the 5th and 7th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress. He died in 1995 at the age of 95.

Personal experience

Eternal toad, the twin brother of wanlaiming. He graduated from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in 1921 and taught in Shanghai University, Nanjing Academy of fine arts. In 1925, he was the art designer of the film department of Shanghai Commercial Press, and worked with brother Laiming to make the animated commercial film "Shuzhen Donghua typewriter". In 1926, he joined the great wall picture company and worked with his brother to produce the first animated short film "the studio of havoc" in China. After 1931, he and his brother produced animation short films for Lianhua and star film companies, such as "compatriots wake up quickly", "history of national pain" and "tortoise and rabbit race" based on fables. In 1935, he made China's first animated film "camel dance". In 1937, he joined the Chinese film studio in Wuhan to produce short animated films "Anti Japanese war songs" and "Anti Japanese War slogans". In 1940, he was director of animation department of Shanghai Xinhua film company, and CO produced China's first large-scale audio animation "Princess Iron Fan" with his brother. After 1945, he served as the chief of the art and engineering section of the third power plant in Beiping, the technical director of the Nanjing China Education Film Studio, and the set designer of the Shanghai China Film Studio. In 1949, he came to Hong Kong and served as the chief of art and Engineering Department of great wall film company. He and his brother Laiming designed and drew the animated film "bees and locusts", which was not produced due to technical constraints. In 1956, he returned to Shanghai as director of Shanghai Art Film Studio. Driven by the sense of mission and responsibility for the prosperity of new China's animation, the creation of eternal toad has entered a new high temperature period. He has directed "fishing boy" (won the second prize of the second national children's literature and art creation), "Jigong fighting Cricket", "turtle and rabbit dividing tree" and "ginseng Doll", among which "ginseng Doll" won the "best children's film" award in the first Alexandria International Film Festival. The golden conch, CO directed by him and Qian Yunda, won the "Lumumba" award at the Asian African Film Festival. In order to create and develop the animation film business, Wan Gu Chan devoted himself to exploration, determined not to mention. In his later years, he served as the consultant of Shanghai Art Film Studio until his death in 1995.

Main works

Director's paper cut

1958: Zhu Bajie eats watermelon 1959: Fisherman Jigong fights cricket 1961: Ginseng doll 1963: Golden conch (cooperation with Qian Yunda)

Directing puppets

1960: Dragon subduing (with Yue Lu and Chen Zhenghong) and Wan Laiming, Wan Chaochen and Wan Dihuan co edited and directed cartoons 1926: Shu Zhendong Chinese typewriter in the studio 1930: paper man making trouble 1931-1932: compatriots wake up quickly and unite in good faith Dance 1938: Anti Japanese war songs (seven episodes) anti Japanese War slogans (five episodes) 1940: Princess Iron Fan

family background

In addition to appreciating, wanlaiming and her brothers explored the secret of making "cartoon". After countless failures, their cartoon finally came into action! According to the news, the film department of the commercial press invited them to draw an advertisement for "shuzhendong Chinese typewriter", the first cartoon advertisement in China. Wan's four brothers were born in a merchant family in Nanjing. Their parents gave birth to a total of ten boys, three of whom died shortly after birth, and three died of illness. Only four of them survived, namely, the eldest Wan Laiming and the eldest 20000 guchan (twins), the eldest 50000 Chaochen and the eldest 60000 Dihuan. Wan's four brothers have been fond of painting since childhood. In 1919, at the age of 19, Wan Laiming submitted his paintings to Shanghai Commercial Press, and finally he was admitted to work in the Art Department of the museum. Soon after, Wan guchan was admitted to the Western Painting Department of Shanghai Art College, and Wan Chaochen was admitted to the decoration Department of Shanghai Oriental Art college. In 1926, Wan brothers entered the great wall picture company and produced the first animated film "the studio of havoc". Since 1931, they have produced Anti Japanese films such as "compatriots wake up quickly", "sincere unity" and allegory film "tortoise and rabbit race walking" in Lianhua film company. In 1932, Wan brothers turned to the cartoon department of star film company and produced the 80 minute cartoon collection. The film is composed of six short films, including Zhang Shichuan's little daughter, Zhang Minyu, and cartoon characters, such as little black monkey, black cat, little black dog and little white rabbit, which will form an educational cartoon. In 1935, the WAN brothers produced China's first sound animation "camel dance"; in 1940, they produced a large sound animation "Princess Iron Fan" for Xinhua film company. After liberation, Wan brothers successively devoted themselves to the creation of art films in New China. Wanlaiming's large-scale color animation "havoc in heaven" has won awards at the karlovi Farley International Film Festival and London International Film Festival; wanguwei's "ginseng Doll" has won awards at the Leipzig International Film Festival and Alexandria International Film Festival; and Wan Chaochen's "Dragon carving" has won awards at the Bucharest International Film Festival (excerpted from "film world") After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Wan brothers joined the Chinese film studio and participated in the production of seven Anti Japanese songs and five Anti Japanese slogans. In 1940, at the invitation of Shanghai Xinhua film company, he and Wan Laiming set up the "Xinhua cartoon department" and drew and directed the animated feature film "Princess Iron Fan", which is 90 minutes long. It is the first large-scale audio cartoon in the East. The plot of the film is tortuous and vivid, and there are new breakthroughs in photography skills and technical treatment, which is a sign of the maturity of Wan brothers' artistic style. Because of years of war and turbulence, his animation creation was interrupted. In 1956, with the enthusiasm of "contributing to the children of new China", he gave up his high salary and resolutely returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong. Then he began to work on paper cutting. He led young people such as Hu Jinqing, Liu Fengzhan and Chen Zhenghong to make the first Chinese paper-cut "Zhu Bajie eating watermelon" in 1957 after more than one year's experiment, which was praised by the audience and experts and attracted the attention of international peers. Since then, he has successively directed and completed "fishing boy" (won the second prize of the second national children's literature and art creation, and was rated as "one of China's 100 outstanding revolutionary historical films" by the radio, film and Television Department and other units), "fighting crickets", "golden monkey subdues the demon", "Renshen Doll" (won the "best children's Film Award" of the first Alexander International Film Festival), etc. In 1963, he and Qian Yunda co directed the paper-cut "golden conch". The characters are perfect, full of personality characteristics, clear background design lines, harmonious colors, and strong national style, which marks that his paper-cut creation has reached a new level and won the "Lumumba Award" at the third Asian African International Film Festival.

social influence

In 1958, he led Hu Jinqing, Liu Fengzhan and Chen Zhenghong to apply shadow play and paper-cut art to art films, and successfully shot the first paper-cut film pig Bajie eating watermelon, adding a new genre to art films. "Fisherman" won the second prize of national children's literature and art creation in 1980, "ginseng Doll" won the honor award of the fourth Leipzig International Short Film and documentary film festival in 1961, won the best children's film award of the first Alexandria International Film Festival in Egypt in 1979, and "golden conch" won the third Asian African Film Festival in Indonesia in 1964 Lumumba award.

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