Chapter 284: Fantasy Can Lead to Great Success

What is the originator? What does it mean?

Everyone sitting here knows it.

This thing is not comparable to the gold medal, silver medal, provincial excellence and department excellence.

A few years later, as long as people mention this field, the person they immediately think of can be called the top spot in this field.

Otherwise, it’s all just a break!

"I don't dare to take it, I don't take it," Tewei shook his hands together: "How dare I take the title of the founder of the mountain?"

Jiang Shan knew that he didn't dare: "Director, this is not a matter of dare, but it is a fact."

Tewei smiled and pointed at Jiangshan: "What is the truth? It is simply non-existent."

"You must have more movie knowledge than I do, right?"

"I dare to accept this!"

"Then if I ask you," Jiang Shan smiled, "do you know who directed our first movie?"

"If you want to talk about the first movie in China," Te Wei smiled slightly: "Of course it has to be "Dingjun Mountain" shot by Ren Qingtai!"

In December 1905, Ren Qingtai, the owner of Yanjing Fengtai Photo Studio, shot a movie "Dingjun Mountain" starring the famous Peking opera actor Tan Xinpei.

"You are right," Jiang Shan said again: "If I say that Ren Xintai is the originator of our movies, would you have no objection?"

Tewei immediately nodded in agreement: "Of course."

"Then let me ask everyone again," Jiang Shan looked at the circle of people in the room: "Who directed our first national art cartoon?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone sitting there looked at their old factory director: "Tewei~"

Even Director Xu turned sideways and said to the special factory director next to him: "Tewei~"

"..." After the old factory director was stunned for two or three seconds, he pointed at Jiangshan and said with a smile: "I almost believed it myself because of this little comrade like you."

Jiang Shan: "It doesn't matter who says this. Everything depends on the records of time. Just like I want to ask, who was the first comedy movie after the reform and opening up...?"

Pan Hong, Liu Xiaoqing and Chen Peisi: "Look at this Family."

"Who is the leading actor in this comedy?"

All the voices in the room rang out: "Chen Peisi."

Even Chen Peisi herself shouted loudly.

Look at Tewei at the other end, he is so hahaha that he can hardly hold his cigarette.

"It seems that I don't want to wear the title of originator anymore,"

In the end, Tewei simply gave up and slapped the cigarette case in his hand on the table: "Let me tell you, the screenwriters, photographers, arrangers, and animation designers of "The Proud General" are all the originators. No one can escape. Lose……"

"good!"

After a burst of applause, everyone started talking about their own things again.

Laughter in twos and threes would sound from time to time.

The number of melon seeds and peanuts on the table is gradually disappearing in various forms.

"do you know?"

Director Wang Chang, who had been sitting next to him, said to the small group of people in Jiangshan: "After "The Proud General", our director made another art film, and that film was the real pioneering work... …”

At the end of 1957, the People's Daily published an article titled "Set a New High in Agricultural Production."

Soon, the Ministry of Culture issued a notice that Pujiang Meiying Factory also joined the research team of "Technological Innovation".

Director Te Wei, who had completed filming "Proud", happened to submit the research plan for "ink cartoons" that he had already envisioned.

However, when the news came back that the plan was approved, the factory began to run into trouble again.

After repeated meetings and research among several key members, we still have no clue as to which subject of ink painting to choose.

One morning, while preparing to wash his face, Xu Jingda, a set designer at Meiying Studio (director of Three Monks), suddenly saw the print "Shrimp" on the bottom of the enamel basin.

A few Qijia brand ink prawns started to swim slightly under the water of Xu Jingda's clear face wash water.

In the eyes of the workers at the Meiying Studio, this scene is nothing more than an ink animation!

Xu Jingda quickly told the factory director Tewei the idea.

It was a coincidence that not long after the plan was finalized, Mr. Chen met Comrade Tewei at an art film exhibition in Yanjing.

After listening to Tewei's report, he said with a smile: "I hope your research can successfully animate Qi Baishi's paintings."

Everyone just went ahead and started to work. The first thing to solve was the technical problem of ink animation shooting.

Duan Xiaoxuan, who was in charge of the filming, decided to try shooting a short scene first.

After looking through many albums of Qi Baishi's works, Duan Xiaoxuan selected a frog resting on a lotus leaf.

After shooting and developing the film, she was not in a hurry and dried the film with a hair dryer before sending it to the screening room for a test screening overnight.

When several people saw the little pure ink frog jumping from the lotus leaf into the water, they all screamed excitedly.

Since then, after countless improvements and fine-tuning, the playback of ink animation has become more natural and smooth day by day.

So, Te Wei, who had a skill in hand, began to prepare the script.

In the early 1950s, Lao She asked Qi Lao to paint a painting based on a line from the Qing Dynasty poet Cha Shenxing: "The sound of frogs comes from springs ten miles away".

After much consideration, a masterpiece of ink painting "The sound of a frog ten miles out of a mountain spring" was completed.

Then, after Tewei thought about it again and again, the painting became the theme of an ink cartoon by Meiying Studio.

Since the success of the experiment of ink-and-wash animation technology, everything seems to be going smoothly.

First, the theme was established without much effort, and then the story of "The Tadpole Looking for its Mother" was quoted.

All of a sudden, the pictures and the script were all ready.

Under the rhythm of the national "Great Leap Forward", the Shanghai Animation Film Studio decided to devote all its staff to the creation of the animated film "The Tadpole Looking for its Mother".

Each person performed his duties and worked cross-functionally.

Those who drew shrimps drew shrimps, and those who drew frogs drew frogs...

One of the female painters in charge of drawing tadpoles simply carved a seal to keep the tadpoles in groups up to the progress.

Bang bang bang all the way to victory.

Finally, with the full cooperation of all the cadres and employees of the factory, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio took less than half a year to shoot the world's first ink-and-wash animated film "The Tadpole Looking for its Mother".

The voice of Zhang Ruifang as the narrator in the film gave "The Tadpole Looking for its Mother" an indelible sense of the times.

"As the inventor of the filming technology for this film, Duan Xiaoxuan also won several awards at the time.

The filming technology of ink-and-wash animation is still a secret that cannot be made public."

On the way to the studio, several migrant workers still surrounded Director Wang: "Unfortunately, the copy of this animation was stolen abroad."

Chen Peisi: "How could such a thing happen?"

Jiang Shan: "Who did it?"

"After "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" ​​was broadcast abroad, many animation colleagues came to ask about the filming technology of ink-and-wash animation, but we rejected them one by one.

As a result, we still found that a part of the film copy recovered from the Czech Republic was missing, and we searched for a long time but found nothing."

"What should we do?"

"What can we do? We can only let it go."

When everyone was worried about this matter, a house suddenly came into view and immediately made them laugh again.

"Oh," Pan Hong walked into the studio of "Afanti" with joy: "So many little Afantis."

Looking at the puppet actors piled up on the prop rack, Liu Xiaoqing walked over in two steps:

"Now I finally know how the movie "Afanti" was made."

At this moment, Jiangshan also walked straight to the front of the shooting table.

Three cameras facing the workbench were looked at one by one.

In his memory, some manufacturers of this era have already launched long-distance macro lenses for shooting insects.

"How is it?"

Director Xu, who had been following behind him, asked in a low voice: "Are these machines still up to standard?"

Before Jiangshan could speak, Duan Xiaoxuan's voice rang out.

"Two Japanese SONYs, a West German Brownie, plus my macro shooting technology..."

Hearing this, Jiangshan quickly turned around and met Duan Xiaoxuan's smiling eyes: "I believe you can definitely shoot the wonderful pictures I need."