What was China’s first animated feature film drawn by the Wan brothers?

"Princess Iron Fan". The production of this animated feature film was very difficult, as it was during the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, most of the people were living in dire straits, but after seeing the animation "Snow White" produced by Disney, the four Wan brothers still decided to make a high-quality animation to make the Chinese people proud.

I believe everyone is familiar with the story of Princess Iron Fan in "Journey to the West". The story of this animated feature film describes the four masters and apprentices of Tang Monk and his disciples passing through the Flame Mountain on their way to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Because the Flame Mountain is full of The fire prevented the four people from moving forward. So Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie went to Cuiping Cave to ask Princess Iron Fan, the wife of the Bull Demon King, to borrow a banana fan to put out the fire. However, Princess Iron Fan was not willing to lend the banana fan to Sun Wukong, so Sun Wukong used his profound magic power to turn into a little insect. Into the belly of Princess Iron Fan.

Later, he pretended to be the Bull Demon King and defrauded Princess Iron Fan of the banana fan. The Bull Demon King was very angry when he knew that Princess Iron Fan's fan had been deceived. So he chose to imitate Sun Wukong. He turned into Zhu Bajie and deceived the banana fan back from Sun Wukong. After several rounds of fighting, Sun Wukong finally obtained the banana fan, successfully extinguished the fire of the Flame Mountain, and went to the West to learn scriptures with his master and junior brothers.

On the surface, "Princess Iron Fan" just describes a mythical story, but in fact, it uses Sun Wukong to call on the Chinese people to be strong and brave, so that everyone can resist the Japanese invasion . There was originally a subtitle in the film: "The people rise up to fight for the final victory," but it was later forcibly cut out by the enemy's and puppet inspection agencies. Even so, this animated feature film brought great courage to the Chinese people at that time.

The four Wan brothers experienced a lot of setbacks when making this film, but they were not defeated by the difficulties in front of them, and finally successfully produced "Princess Iron Fan", which the Chinese people The Anti-Japanese War also successfully achieved victory.