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I want China's animated film history

China's animation has a long history, from the 60s until the mid-80s, not only a wide variety, but also the content and artistry are much higher than the same period of Japan and the United States, especially many of Japan's early animation are affected by our animation. However, from the 1990s onwards, China's animation began to decline, and now almost all the animation in China's animation market is from Japan and the United States. By doing this research study, I hope that teenagers who are now enjoying Japanese animation will understand the glorious history that Chinese animation once had.

The three Wan brothers, the pioneers of China's animation industry in the 20th century, began to study animation production, and the first Chinese homemade human-picture ensemble show, "The Greatest Show in the World", was produced by them, and the first Chinese animation with sound, "The Camel Offers a Dance", came out in 1936. in 1941, under the influence of American animation, the first large-scale animation of China's "The Princess of Iron Fans" was produced, which is ranked among the most famous American "Snow White", "The Princess of the Iron Fan", and "The Princess of the Iron Fan", in the world's cinema history. In the history of world cinema, it was the fourth animated art film after the American Snow White, Little People and Pinocchio, marking that China's animation level at that time was close to the world's leading level.

China's early years of the founding of the country ---- booming development period (the founding of the country to 1965)

After the founding of the country, China's animation business can be said to have been very rapid development, not only more works, but also a lot of fine works. From one animation in 1950, the development to the 1960s has been able to produce more than a dozen animations every year, which is particularly worth mentioning is the 1961~1964 production of "The Great Pandemonium". The Great Pandemonium" can be said to be the peak of domestic animation at that time, from the characters, action, picture, sound effects, etc. reached the highest level in the world at that time. 1947, China produced the first puppet animation "Emperor's Dream"; 1958, I over the shooting of the first paper-cut animation "Piggy Eats Watermelon"; 1960, the completion of the first ink animation "Tadpoles looking for their mothers"; 1962, the first origami animation "a tree". The first origami animation "A Cabbage" was completed. New forms of animation were added, and China's animation business reached a peak.

Silver Age (1976~1990)

After experiencing the Cultural Revolution, the animation industry naturally suffered a great impact, and the 17 animations such as Trumpeteer, Little Eight Roads, and Little Sentinels of the East China Sea, which were made by Shangmei Film between 1972 and 1976, cast a serious shadow over the subsequent animation creations of the calendar year! Realism and educational purposes, which makes the cartoon was positioned to the children to see full of educational significance of extracurricular materials, this idea not only continued and also in most people's hearts y rooted, it is also this concept is caused by the later cartoon's embarrassing position.

After the opening of the Cultural Revolution, animation production entered an era of prosperity, in the ten years from 1978 to 1989, these production units produced 219 animated films, such as "Na Zha Haunted the Sea", "Golden Monkey Surrendered the Demons", "Tianshu Qitan" and other outstanding works are produced from this time, and animated television programs also at this time there are the "Gourd Brothers", "Sheriff of the Black Cat", "The Story of Avanti" and so on to give Avanti's story" and so on has left a deep impression of the work, as a whole, this is a relatively average era, both a small number of all-age art films, but also a large number of similar to the "black cat sheriff" purely for children to see the mainstream of the animated cartoon seeking education, and the production methods basically follow the school started by the U.S. film the Wan Brothers. There is not much innovation, but also did not learn from the advanced experience of the outside world, and this section of the multi-yield precisely caused the production of works is not fine enough, but also due to the production of the starting point is to the children to see, so in the dubbing of the soundtrack is also obviously not as heartfelt as before, and the same period of time, Japan is from the United States and Europe animation to do do a simple processing of the material of the stage of steady development, and gradually learn and learn from the experience of the United States and Europe and create their own unique style.

Black is the most important of all.

Black Iron Age (1990~2002)

First of all, in the 1990s, the major animation manufacturers began to communicate and cooperate with the international animation industry, the silver age of the inherently self-enclosed situation ceased, the digital means of production to replace the previous hand-drawn, greatly improving the production efficiency, the diversification of various systems of the production unit, the number of production Increase, a variety of professional and versatile talent into the industry, then the number of productions than in the past has also increased, but even if the quantity and quality have increased, due to the production of animated cartoons mainly for children to see this conceptual problem, there is no great breakthrough in the content of the subject matter.

Secondly, since 1995, China Film Screening Corporation (CFSC) no longer adopts the planning policy of unified purchase and sale of animated films, and pushes animation to the market, which has changed the production status and business mode of animated films, and established the concept of win-win situation for both social and economic benefits, which is a great opportunity for commercialization and development of the animation industry. Suitable for children's educational significance of things but do not dare and can not make a breakthrough in the relevant textbooks and even proudly proclaimed that "Chinese animation compared with Japan and the United States, the content is healthy, the spirit of wanting to, is suitable for the children's educational works".

So the black iron age is because the TV station in order to meet the problem of broadcasting time, the introduction of a large number of Europe and the United States and Japan animated films, and domestic animated films in the comparison of whether the content, picture, character image, etc. are revealed serious shortcomings, especially the use of traditional educational concepts produced by the animated film, is often a number of children in a serious and did not say the children's words, so that the audience should be originally! Teenagers have favored foreign cartoons, on the surface it seems that with the increase in the number of production units to produce the number and quality seem to improve, but in fact it is this time a large number of viewers have "fled", no longer go to see the cartoon, and it is seen as a symbol of childishness and clumsiness.

Looking at the history of animation development, China from the beginning of the brilliant to the middle of the decadence, and now back on the battlefield, every step of the way, touching the hearts of Chinese animation fans. China's animation industry has a broad market and bright prospects, as long as the use of good development, it will become an important part of China's tertiary industry, although now China's animation industry still exists in a large number of shortcomings, such as the animation industry does not have a clear positioning of the grading system, the lack of talent, the lack of training of such talents in the professional school and the way and so on.

All in all, the prospect of China's animation is still broad, China has a group of patriotic young people, although they are attracted by foreign things, but still consider the development of China's future, Shan Wei, Lin Xi, Ding Bing, Lin Ying, and the thousands of people for the cause of China's animation efforts, although they are not masters, but the masters of the seed, they let us see the future of China's animation hope.

At that time, looking back at the dome, our Chinese animation workers, will issue a bold declaration:

With the past, the number of tasks, but also look at the present day!