Chapter 284 Weird thoughts can lead to enlightenment
What is a founder? What does it mean?
Everyone sitting here knows it very well.
This thing is not a gold medal or a silver medal, it can be compared with the provincial and ministerial 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, all you have to do is rest!
"I dare not take it, I don't dare 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 daring or not, 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 said with a smile, "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, do you have any 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 male protagonist of this comedy film?"
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 round 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...
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At the end of 1957, "People's Daily" published an article "Set off 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 finished 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 the Meiying Studio (director of Three Monks), suddenly saw the print "Shrimp" on the bottom of the enamel basin.
Several Qijia brand ink prawns started to swim slightly under the water of Xu Jingda's clear washing 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 do it. The first thing that had to be solved 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 chose 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 frogs emerges from the mountain spring ten miles away" was completed.
Then, after Tewei thought about it again and again, this painting became the theme of an ink cartoon by Meiying Studio.
Ever since the experiment with ink animation technology was successful, everything seemed to be going smoothly.
First, the theme was established effortlessly, and then the story of "The Little Tadpole Looking for its Mother" was simply quoted.
All of a sudden, the screen and script came alive.
Under the rhythm of the "Great Leap Forward" of the whole nation, Meiying Studio decided to go all out to create the art film "Tadpole Looking for Mom" with all its staff.
Each performs his or her own duties and works across tasks.
Those who draw shrimps draw shrimps, those who draw frogs draw frogs...
One of the female painters in charge of drawing tadpoles simply carved a seal in order to keep the swarms of tadpoles up to speed.
Bang bang bang all the way to victory.
Finally, with the full cooperation of all the cadres and workers of the factory, it took the Meiying Studio less than half a year to complete the filming of the world's first ink painting art film "Tadpole Looking for Mom".
In the film, Zhang Ruifang serves as the narration voice, giving "Tadpole Looking for Mom" an everlasting flavor of the times.
"As the inventor of this film's filming technology, Duan Xiaoxuan even won several awards at the time.
The shooting technology of ink animation is still a secret that cannot be disclosed to the public.”
On the way to the studio, several migrant workers were still surrounding Director Wang: "Unfortunately, the copy of this art film was stolen abroad."
Chen Peisi: "Such a thing actually happens?"
Jiang Shan: "Which one can do it?"
"After "Tadpole Looking for Mom" was broadcast abroad, many animation colleagues came to inquire about the shooting technology of ink animation, but we all rejected them one by one.
As a result, we still found that part of the film copy recovered from the Czech Republic was missing, and we searched for a long time without finding any results."
"What should we do?"
"What can we do? We can only let it go."
When the group of people were brooding over this matter, a house that suddenly came into view made them laugh again.
"Ah," Pan Hong walked into the studio of "Afanti" with eyes full of joy: "There are so many little Avanti."
Looking at the puppeteers who were piled with prop racks, Liu Xiaoqing approached them in three steps and two steps:
"Now I finally know how the movie "Afanti" was made."
At this moment, Jiang Shan also walked directly to the filming stage.
The three cameras facing the workbench looked at each other one by one.
In his memory, some manufacturers of this era had already launched long-distance macro lenses for photographing insects.
"How about it?"
Director Xu, who had been following him, asked in a low voice: "Do these machines still meet the requirements?"
Before Jiang Shan could speak, Duan Xiaoxuan's voice rang from the side.
"Two Japanese SONYs, one West German Brownie, plus my macro photography skills..."
Hearing this, Jiang Shan quickly turned around and met Duan Xiaoxuan's smiling eyes: "I believe you can take the wonderful pictures I need."
