| Product: Chinese Classical Animation: Te Wei Collection
Director: Te Wei
Animation films produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio, 1956-1988
DVD published by Shanghai Film Audio-Visual Publish House, 2005
Dubbing Language: Mandarin Chinese
Subtitle: Simplified Chinese Character, Traditional Chinese Character, English
Regional Code: FREE, ALL
ISBN: 788414239
A collection of four animated shorts created under the artistic direction of
Te Wei, a Chinese animator born in Shanghai in 1915 and headed production at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio from
its inception in 1957 until the Anti-Rightist purge in 1965, and then again
after the Cultural Revolution from 1976 to 1984.
The Conceited General (the Proud General)
Writer: Hua Junwu
Director: Te Wei
Produced by
Shanghai Animation Film Studio, 1956
After a victorious military campaign, a general returns home to glory and
prosperity. The king rewards him and claims that all enemies will be
intimidated by the general. From then on, the general no longer practice
martial arts. He eats, drinks, lives the glamorous life, and didn't bother
anymore with sharpening his weapons. When the enemy one day returns, his own
arrogance led to his defeat and eventually to the downfall of whole nation.
The film was heavily influenced by Disney from the perspective of character
design, movement and storytelling point of view. The music are derived from
Beijing Opera. The clothing, architecture, and props do have a strong sense of
Chinese cultural influence. none of the ladies have their facial features
drawn in; the emphasis is on the motions of their silk scarves. It was one of
the first films to use the art of water ink painting in a lengthy production.
The DVD has been re-released under the Chinese Classic Animation Te Wei
Collection set. The Conceited General do have English subtitles.
 
Where is Mamma
Director: Te Wei
Produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio, 1960
Hailed as "China's first watercolor animation," "brush animation," this definitely presents a
different style from the previous feature. An homage to the water-color
paintings of Qi Baishi, it featured a group of tadpoles in search of their
mother, pestering chicks, crayfish, goldfish, turtles and a catfish before
eventually locating her. With the voiceover narration, beautiful, pretty
smoothly animated images, it
gears towards a younger audience.
  
The Cowboy's Flute
Writer: Te Wei
Director: Te Wei, Qian Jiajun
Produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio, 1963
The story is about a relationship between a young cow herding boy with an
extraordinary flute playing ability. He is accompanied by his faithful water
buffalo, and falls asleep in a tree.
The first month of summer morning, in the south field, a naive lively shepherd
boy rides the water buffalo to browse. The cow has suddenly been
missing, originally the cow is drown on the waterfalls, which ignores the shepherd boy's
call for back. Hearing the sound which is sent out by the windy bamboo, he has the comprehension,
then truncates the
bamboo into a flute, plays the melodious delightful music. By
the attraction of the whistle sound, the water buffalo is back to the shepherd boy side.
The shepherd
boy riding the cow back is treading the twilight boundary ridge between
fields, easily returns.
The film did not contain any dialogues allowing it to be watched by any
culture. The animation is essentially Chinese painting in motion, with a heavy
emphasis on the flute melody.
Using the images that abound in traditional landscape painting and focusing
their narrative upon the delicate relationship between man and nature in
Cowboy's Flute, Te Wei and Qian Jajun created a wonderful genre of landscape
painting-in-process. The film was an homage to Li Keran, the contemporary
painter famous for his paintings of the countryside south of the Yangtze
River. Enjoy it is like the movement of a landscape scroll that one slowly
unravels. It's a deliberate and downright playful manipulation of the
animation medium. Cowboy's Flute remains to this day one of the masterpieces
of Chinese animation.
More than a decade later, the film would win an award at the Odense
International Film Festival in 1979.
  
Feeling From Mountain and Water
Writer: Wang Shuchen
Director: Te Wei, Yan Shanchun, Ma Kexuan
Produce by Shanghai Animation Film Studio, 1988
Feeling from Mountain and Water is a Chinese animated short film produced by
Shanghai Animation Film Studio under the master animator Te Wei. It is also
referred to as "Love of Mountain and River", "Feelings of Mountains and
Waters".
The story is about an impoverished elderly scholar and a young boatman who
cares for him briefly in return for zither lessons. The aging musician teaches with skill and patience, the youth is diligent, finally becomes the great talent.
The aging musician donates the beloved old music instrument
for the youth as a gift, and he will move alone between mountains and white clouds. The youth plays the old music
instrument, the melodious sound to say goodbye towards the master vanishing in the boundless mountains.
The film did not contain any dialogues allowing it to be watched by any
culture. The only noises are that of the sound of the wind or other earthly
elements. The film is considered a masterpiece at the artistic level, since it
was essentially a landscape painting in motion. Artistically, it uses a
mountains-water painting style through out. The style reached its creative
peak with this animation film. There was indeed a gorgeous guzheng soundtrack.
The music was impressive.
Won the Best animated film prize at the Golden Rooster Awards in 1989.
  
  
  
产品名称：中国经典动画特伟篇
导演: 特伟，钱家骏，阎善春
出版商：上海电影音像出版社 2006年7月
介质：1 DVD
语言：国语
字幕：简体中文、繁体中文、英文
ISBN：7884144239
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《骄傲的将军》（1956年）
编剧：华君武
导演：特伟
从前有位将军得胜归来，在庆功会上，他随手抛接几百斤重的铜鼎，又拉弓射雁连发连中，观者个个喝彩。从此，他不再练武，成天过着荒唐享乐的生活。几个月后，正当大家向他祝寿，敌人突然起兵进攻。
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艺术指导：特伟
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编剧：特伟
导演：特伟、钱家骏
初夏的早晨，江南田野，一个天真活泼的牧童骑着水牛去放牛。牛忽然失踪了，原来牛被飞流千尺的瀑布所吸引。牧童唤它，它不动。牧童从风竹发出的音响有所领悟，削竹为笛，吹奏出悠扬悦耳的乐曲，水牛被笛声吸引，回到牧童身边，牧童骑上牛背，踏着暮色的田埂，悠然归去
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编剧：王树忱
总导演：特伟
导演：阎善春、马克宣
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