The family background of Wan Gu Chan

Wan Laiming enjoys it while exploring the mystery of making "cartoons" with his brothers. After countless failures, the cartoons they drew finally came to life! News came out that the Film Department of the Commercial Press invited them to draw an advertisement for Shu Zhendong's Chinese typewriter, which was the first cartoon advertisement in China.

Wan's four brothers were all born in a merchant family in Nanjing. Their parents gave birth to ten boys, three of whom died soon after birth, and three of them died of illness. Only four people survived, namely the eldest Wan Laiming and the second Wan Guchan (twins), the fifth Wan and the sixth Di Huan. Wan's four brothers like painting since childhood. 19 19, 19 Wan Laiming sent a painting manuscript to the Shanghai Commercial Press, and was finally admitted to work in the art department of the museum. Soon, Wan Guchan was admitted to the Western Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts to study. Wan was admitted to the Decoration Department of Shanghai Oriental Art College.

1926, Wan Brothers entered the Great Wall Film Company and made the first animated film "Make a scene". Starting from 193 1, they successively produced Awakening My Compatriots, Sincere Unity and fable The Race between the Tortoise and the Rabbit in Lianhua Film Company to publicize the war of resistance. 1932, Wan Brothers transferred to the Comics Department of Star Film Company and drew an 80-minute comic book collection. The film consists of six short films, including Zhang Shichuan's youngest daughter, Zhang, and cartoon characters such as little black monkey, black cat, little black dog and white rabbit, which will be strung into an educational cartoon.

1935, Wan Brothers produced China's first animated film "Camel Dance"; 1940, they made a large-scale animated film Princess Iron Fan for Xinhua Film Company. After liberation, Wan Brothers devoted themselves to the creation of new China art films. Wan Laiming's large-scale color cartoon "Make a scene in Heaven" won awards at the Karlovy Farley International Film Festival and the London International Film Festival. The ginseng doll created by Wan Gushan won prizes at Leipzig International Film Festival and Alexandria International Film Festival. Wan's Sculpture won the prize at Bucharest International Film Festival (excerpt from Zhao's Hook and Sink in the Film, published by Elephant Press in August, 1998).

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Wan brothers entered the China Film Studio and participated in the production of 7 episodes of anti-Japanese songs and 5 episodes of anti-Japanese slogans. 1940, he and Wan Laiming established the "Xinhua Cartoon Department" at the invitation of Shanghai Xinhua Film Company, and drew and directed the animated feature film Princess Iron Fan, which was 90 minutes long and was the earliest large-scale animated film with sound in the East. The film has twists and turns, vivid images, and new breakthroughs in photography skills and technical treatment, which is a symbol of the maturity of Wan Brothers' artistic style.

Due to years of war, his animation creation was interrupted. From 65438 to 0956, he gave up his high salary with the enthusiasm of "contributing to the children of new China", resolutely returned to Shanghai from Hongkong, and immediately devoted himself to the creation of newspaper clippings. He led young people such as Hu Jinqing, Liu and Chen. After more than a year's experiment, he produced the first paper-cut with unique style in China, "Pig Eight Rings Eat Watermelon", which was well received by the audience and experts and attracted the attention of international peers. Since then, he has directed and completed the Fisherman (won the second prize of the Second National Children's Literature Creation, and was rated as "One Hundred Revolutionary Historical Films in China" by the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television), Jigong Fighting Crickets, The Demonization of Golden Monkey, Ginseng Doll (won the Best Children's Film Award at the First Alexandria International Film Festival) and other films. 1963 The Golden Conch, a paper-cut directed by Qian, has perfect characters, clear background design lines, harmonious colors and strong national style, which indicates that his paper-cut creation has reached a new level and won the Lumumba Award in the third Asian-African International Film Festival.