Princess Iron Fan (1941 film)

Princess Iron Fan simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Ti shn gngzh , 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.

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.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 Chinas animation industry for the next several decades. In the late 1930s, with Shanghai under Japanese occupation, they began work on Chinas first featurelength 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 nations honor. ........

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