Will there be a sixth episode of "Black Cat Sheriff"? Now, there will be no more.
At 19:25, September 4, 2019, famous art artist, first-level director, member of International Animation Association (ASIFA), member of Chinese Artists Association, director of Chinese Animation Society, member of Chinese Film Association, enjoy special allowance of State Council Treatment, Mr. Dai Tielang, director and screenwriter of the cartoon "Black Cat Sheriff", died of illness at the age of 89.
"The eyes are staring like copper bells, shooting out shrewd like lightning..." When you hum this familiar melody, this time, "Black Cat Sheriff" really can't wait for the next episode.
picked up the pen, the world is infinite
Dai Tielang, originally from Huiyang, Guangdong, was born in Singapore in 1930 and returned to China in 1940. After graduating from Beijing Film Academy in 1953, he joined the Shanghai Film Studio's art group. In 1957, he joined the Shanghai Art Film Studio and worked as an animation designer in more than 30 art films.
From the 1950s to the 1990s, Mr. Dai Tielang has been committed to the creation of fine art films. He has worked with many artists from Shanghai Film Studio to dedicate one after another classic works to the audience. These works have been passed down to this day and have become the common memory of several generations.
" Proud General " (1956 )
" little tadpole looking for mother " (19) won the silver award of the 14th zzzzzz (19zzzz, 1961) 11zzzzzzzzz, 11zzzzzzz, 1961, 11, 11, 10, and 10 , France 1962 4th Anci International Animation Film Festival Children's Film Award, France 1964 17th Cannes International Film Festival Honor Award, Yugoslavia 1978 3rd Zagreb International Animation Film Festival 1 First prize, the second prize of the 4th International Children and Youth Festival of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France, .
"Little Sisters of Prairie Heroes" (1964)
"My Friend Dolphin" (1980), won the Presidential Silver Award at the 1982 Italian International Children and Youth Film Festival .
"Nine Colored Deer" (1981)
" little red face and little blue face " (1982 )
The most well-known child is the "Black Cat Sheriff" who grew up with him. The heroic and upright Black Cat Sheriff is a childhood "hero" in the minds of countless children.
"Black Cat Sheriff" ( 1984 to 1987 ), won the 1985 First Chinese Children and Teenager Film "Golden Bull Award" Excellent Film Award, won the Radio and Television Department 1986-z111110zz10 Outstanding Film Award 10zzzz101987.
In order to create this cartoon, Dai Tielang under pressure and his creative team overcame various difficulties: a studio of 30 square meters; only two cents for overtime work; benefits only free mung bean soup...except him , The entire creative team are young people who have just entered the factory. When someone questioned this, he replied: “Young people don’t do things, how do they learn.”
In the end, "Black Cat Sheriff" was aired when there were thousands of people. It has become a highlight in the history of Chinese animation.
"Black Cat Sheriff" is a groundbreaking animation work that explores ideological, artistic and commercialWalked ahead of the times and created the embryonic form of Chinese TV animation series. In that era when animation emphasized a strong artistic style and focused on "traditional and ethnic themes", the popular and popular science "Black Cat Sheriff" was undoubtedly a new wave.
30z 4z years later, the black cat sheriff with "eyes staring like bronze bells" reappeared on the big screen. The movie version of "Black Cat Sheriff" directed by Dai Tielang was released and won 15 million yuan in box office revenue. Although this achievement is not so dazzling in today's film market, which is often worth hundreds of millions of yuan in box office, who cares about its box office? Today, years after 30, we can see the black cat sheriff in the theater, which is the best dream of childhood.
2010 "Black Cat Sheriff" movie version, has a "new edition" in the narrative rhythm, character modeling and props setting, has added many 21st century elements.
Mr. Dai Tielang loves the career of fine arts, life, science, and animals all his life. He has always created cartoons for children with full enthusiasm and a pioneering spirit. His films are full of children's interest and full of imagination, and have made positive contributions to the "Chinese School" of Chinese art films and animation circles and Chinese national animation.
Until his 80s, Mr. Dai continued to work hard. He once said: "If you have a world in your heart, take up a pen, the world is infinite!"
In front of interesting souls, the knife of the years will be extra tolerant. In a certain episode of the latest season of
's popular variety show "Chinese Restaurant", guests Wang Junkai and Yang Zi discussed a clip of "Black Cat Sheriff", which made many people laugh. Wang Junkai asked: "How many episodes are there in "Black Cat Sheriff"?" Yang Zi "silly" guessed: "More than 80 episodes." This is the same feeling as our peers. When I learned that "Black Cat Sheriff" had only 5 episodes in total, maybe you and Yang Zi were also shocked with your jaw dropped.
The TV version of the "Black Cat Sheriff" animation came to an abrupt end after only five episodes were filmed. To this day, the audience has not seen the original Black Cat Sheriff capture the cunning ear. This has become the largest in the history of Chinese animation. Regret one. The reason is not only related to Dai Tielang's legendary personal experience, but also the imprint of the times. When
entered the Shanghai Beauty Film Factory, it was the golden age of Dai Tielang. However, shortly after entering the factory, the vigorous "anti-rightist" movement began. His father was implicated in the "Pan Hannian case", so Dai Tielang also sat on the bench for more than 20 years. After entering the factory for 23 years, he did not serve as the director of any cartoon until Pan Hannian was rehabilitated in 1982, when Dai Tielang, who eventually took the lead, was 52 years old.
At that time, after creating the two peaks of domestic animation, the Shanghai Art Film Studio put forward several reform goals in the 1980s, one of which was the "development of series", because television is in the family. The popularity of the market is also the need of the market. "Black Cat Sheriff" was born in this period.
Because Dai Tielang himself likes science very much, he wants to present a kind of "interesting science" in "Black Cat Sheriff" to inspire children's love for science. In fact, the cartoon itself did.
However, after two episodes of the "Black Cat Sheriff" project were produced, it was quickly halted, on the grounds that "the fighting inside does not conform to traditional aesthetics, and the scientific principles inside are not artistic." It was not until a year and a half later that a leader of the film bureau saw it and found it good, and after giving it a try to some children, the response was very enthusiastic, and it was finally broadcast in 1984. Because the effect was very good after the broadcast, three more episodes were intensified, which were broadcast in 1987.
In 1987, the commemorative album of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio was produced to celebrate the anniversary of the establishment of the factory 30.
"Black Cat Sheriff"'s "advanced consciousness" has been recognized by the audience, but at this time, the Shanghai Film Studio was in trouble due to its own reasons.
For a long time, Shanghai Meiying Film Factory was the only professional animation manufacturer in China, gathering most of the top domestic animation artists and creative staff. Its production model is funded by the state and assigned production targets. After the completion of the US Film Factory, it will be purchased by a state-owned film company. The beauty studio does not have toDirectly face the market without worrying about profit or loss.
However, from about 1984, things began to change-the TV market gradually took shape, foreign animations entered China, and foreign or Sino-foreign joint venture animation companies were established one after another. With hindsight, the Shanghai Meiying Film Factory suffered a failure in market transformation. According to the "Shanghai Film History" record: In 1988, "the original animation talents of Meiying Film were lost and the economy suffered a serious decline".
"In the past few years, a large number of creative personnel from our factory have flowed to several foreign-funded animation processing factories in the south. From 1986 to 1989, nearly a hundred people have been exodus, mainly animation directors and animation designers. The exodus of a large number of talents has made our factory The structure of the creative staff has a fault, which has caused a decline in production capacity and aggravated the economic decline. The production profit has dropped from 1.43 million yuan in 1987 to 480,000 yuan in 1988..." Zhou Keqin, who became the director of the US Film Studio in 1989, wrote in his annual summary report. A paragraph in the text is enough to see the tragic history of the of the Shanghai Film Studio.
In such a harsh factory environment, the "Black Cat Sheriff" series can no longer be on the agenda.
As of the 1990s, mature animations in Europe, America and Japan have already dominated Chinese TV screens. The attention of small Chinese audiences was quickly taken away by excellent works such as "Transformers", "Smurfs", "Saint Seiya", and "Dragon Ball", which are both mature in creation and commercialization. However, "Black Cat Sheriff" never fails. Occupies an important place in their childhood memories.
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missed the best time point of "Black Cat Sheriff" and stayed in the fifth episode forever.
4 months ago, we lost "Grandpa Calabash" Hu Jinqing. Director Hu Jinqing passed away on May 13, 2019 at the age of 83. Four months later, "Grandpa Black Cat" also passed away. The figures of
masters have gradually gone away. However, when they see in heaven that there will be a successor to the next generation of Chinese animation, they must be very pleased in the spirit of heaven.
"Black Cat Sheriff" will never see the next episode, but the next episode of Chinese animation is being written! Masters of
, go all the way!
