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Princess Iron Fan (simplified Chinese: ????; traditional Chinese: ????; pinyin: Ti? shàn g?ngzh?), is the first Chinese animated feature film. The film is based on an episode of the novel Journey to the West. It was directed in Shanghai under difficult conditions in the thick of World War II by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming (the Wan brothers) and was released on January 1, 1941.
| Princess Iron Fan | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Wan Guchan Wan Laiming |
| Produced by | Wan Guchan Wan Laiming |
| Distributed by | Cinema Epoch |
Release date | 1 January 1941 (China) |
Running time | 73 min |
| Country | China |
Screenplay
The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese novel Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character.
Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.
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| Supervision | Chang Shan-Kun | ??? |
| Animation Screenplay | Wang Gan-Bai | ??? |
| Consultant | Chen Yiqing | ??? |
| Sound Recording | Liu En-Ze | ??? |
| Musical Adaptation | Huang Yi-Jun | ??? |
| Music Advisor | Zhang Zheng-Fan | ??? |
| Music | Lu Zhong-Ren | ??? |
| Special Effects | Chen Zhong | ?? |
| Editing | Wang Jin-Yi | ??? |
| Photofinishing | LinXiang Fu Xu Hexiang Chen Xinfu |
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| Character Design | Qi-Bin Chen Feibo Yi |
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| Animation Photography | Liu Guang-Xing Chen Zheng-Fa Shi Feng-Qi Zhou Jia-Rang Sun Fei-Xia |
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| Backgrounds | Fangqian Chen Cao Wu Tang Tao Fan Manyun |
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| Painting Artists | Yu Wing Li Yi Liu Jie Wu Guang Yin Fu-Sheng Chen Chin-Tao Xiemin Yai Liu Chen Fai Zhao Feng Zhu Yong Liu Yi Meng Shen Yi Ming Hu Sixiao Guo Ruisheng Wu Yan Jinfang Bin Cao Zhong Zhang Da Nian |
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| Line Drawings | Chen Min Wu Min Fa Sunxiu Pang Yu Wen Wang Wuyue Teng Huang Zhenwen Lu Zhongbo Dai Jiao Ye Lingyun Zhang Liang Qi Sun Song Guo Hengyi Yuan Yongqing Chen Ruihe Chenjin Fan Zhang Jutang Qian Pin Yeng Yu Zu Bung Thinh Liang Yin Shen Zhong Xia Tang Bingde Lu Guang Uig Zhang Tan Zhu Shun Lin Ding Liah Guang Shi Fa Kang Zhao Sheng Fai Qin Qi Xian Yang Jin Xin Feng Bofu |
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| Coloring | Yuan Huimin Wenghuan Bo Ge Yongliang Wang Zengting Wang Cong Zhou Quan Han Lim Zhen Li Shifen Mi Long Nian Yuan Yu Yao Yuan Zi Chuan Xu Hui Feng Zou Gui Ying Xu Hue Lan Chen Hiyiang Cai Yong Fa Daike Shu Daike Hui Luo Zong |
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| Principal Visualized and Directed by | Wan Guchan Wan Laiming |
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The Wan family twins Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan with their brothers Wan Chaochen and Wan Dihuan were the first animators in China. After the release of their first "real" cartoon, Uproar in the Studio (1926), they continued to dominate China's animation industry for the next several decades. In the late 1930s, with Shanghai under Japanese occupation, they began work on China's first feature-length animated film. In 1939 the Wan brothers saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and set the standard in attempting to create a film of equal quality for the nation's honor.
The film took three years, 237 artists and 350,000 yuan to make. Although the Disney influence is apparent in much of the animation, there is also a distinct Chinese flavor in the film - a flavor that would grow much stronger with the Wan brothers' subsequent films in the following decades. Rotoscoping was used extensively to save money, and the eyes of the live actors are often visible in the faces of the animated characters.
By 1940 the film would render past 20,000 frames, using up more than 200 thousand pieces of paper (400ream?500×400). They shot over 18,000 ft (5,500 m) of footage. And the final piece would contain 7,600 ft (2,300 m) of footage which can be shown in 80 minutes. The Wan brothers also invited the following actors and actresses for sound dubbing (??),(???),(??),(???),(???). At the time they were at the Xinhua Film Company animation department since it was the only remaining production company left during the period of the Japanese occupation. The manager of the company who help financed the film was Zhang Shankun.
Princess Iron Fan became the first animated feature film to be made in China and the 12th worldwide (although it is only the 9th that still survives, as the films of Argentina's animation pioneer Quirino Cristiani are thought to be lost). Upon completion the film was screened by the Chinese union film company.
Its influences were far-reaching; it was swiftly exported to wartime Japan (in 1942), inspiring the 16-year-old Tezuka Osamu to become a comics artist and prompting the Japanese Navy to commission Japan's own first feature-length animated film, 1945's Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (the earlier film Momotaro's Sea Eagles is three minutes shy of being feature-length).
- History of Animation
- History of Chinese Animation
- Chinese Animation
- List of animated feature films
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
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