"Please see the next episode" shot with a gun at the end of each episode of "Black Cat Sheriff" is an innovation at the time.
Superstar (left), director of Shanghai Film Studio, visits Dai Tielang on the hospital bed. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Coke is Dai Tielang's favorite drink. At the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio (hereinafter referred to as "Shangmei Film"), he was a "fashionable" old man. He started drinking Coke since he entered the factory, and he still likes to drink it until now. He said that he used to be too busy at work. Three meals a day turned into a piece of chocolate in the bread, and he drank a coke. Many people who are familiar with Dai Tielang told the Beijing News reporter that in their impression, Dai Lao is more like a child than his grandfather: he loves to drink coke and eat ruby milk cake. He loves to make jokes very much, and he has always guarded the innocence just like his creation. Once you talk to him about creation, those eyes that have been muddled by the years seem to brighten up for an instant, revealing nostalgia and expectation.
We did not wait for the sixth episode of "Black Cat Sheriff", the creator of this classic animation has left us forever. A reporter from the Beijing News learned from the Shanghai Film Art Studio that Dai Tielang, a fine-art artist, first-level director, director and screenwriter of the cartoon "Black Cat Sheriff", died of illness at 19:25 on September 4, 2019 at the age of 89. . Later, Shanghai Film Studio also issued an obituary. A reporter from the Beijing News exclusively interviewed Jiang Ping, the director of Shanghai Film Studios and director Dai who had been familiar with Dai Lao for many years. They were extremely sad and regretful about the news of Dai Tielang's death, and shared a lot of memories with Dai Lao. Suda told reporters: "He wouldn't expect to go so fast, because he has been preparing to recreate, whether it is "Black Cat Sheriff" or something else, he is a cute old urchin in our hearts."
career
never thought of doing animation As soon as he did, he retired. Dai Tielang was originally from Huiyang, Guangdong, and was born in Singapore in 1930. Before he was 20 years old, he followed his father and wandered around. His biggest regret was that he did not calm down and study hard. Later, he went north alone and was admitted to the first batch of animation majors in the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film School before he really started his career in animation. This group of students came out in large numbers, including Ada, Yan Dingxian, Lin Wenxiao, and Hu Jinqing. No one thought at the time that they would become the most important force that would open the glorious era of Chinese domestic animation. In 1953, after graduation, Dai Tielang entered the art group of the Shanghai Film Studio, where he served as director, animation design, and art design. “At that time, I wanted to do art animation, so I tried it. I didn’t expect to retire as soon as I tried.”
entered the factory at the age of 23. Dai Tielang participated in the pioneering work "The Proud General" of the Chinese school, mainly for styling production. Later, Dai Tielang gained a lot of sense of accomplishment when he was doing the styling design of "Little Sisters of the Prairie Heroes". He said: "Styling is the soul of animation, what kind of thing should be close to what kind of shape. I watched Disney before liberation. I feel that thinking must be open. Many of my sketches at the time were drafts. I imagined that they wrestled, rode horses, and all kinds of labor were my material. "Dai Tielang has been in the factory for more than 20 years and has always been " Sitting on the bench", he was 50 years old when he became an independent director. At the end of the 1970s, the country proposed mechanization, so Dai Tielang’s first directed work "Hen Moving" focused on the theme of scientific and technological knowledge. High-tech equipment such as solar energy, new drinking fountains, and elevators made the audience refreshed. "Hen Moving" won the second prize of the popular science painting exhibition, and also declared Dai Tielang's style to the animation industry: more modern, more popular science, and more innocent. The masterpiece of
"Black Cat Sheriff" has become an animation that transcends the times.
Now everyone knows the name Dai Tielang. It comes from the "Black Cat Sheriff" that couldn't be rejected by the eyeballs in the 1980s. This well-known animation is the earliest in China. One of his animation series, has a profound influence in the history of Chinese animation. The righteous and courageous black cat sheriff, the cowardly and cunning one ear and other distinctive cartoon images showed that all the children at the time were dancing and singing "Forest Citizens Salute You". Although "Black Cat Sheriff" has only five short episodes, it seems to run through a whole childhood in many people's memories. Dai Tielang is not a conservative person, he is eager to innovate. At that time, many animations were directly marked with the word "finished" at the end of the episode. He didn't want it. He wanted to be different. So after discussing with his student Yin Xiyong, he shot it with the gun of the Black Cat Sheriff: Please see the next episode. This became the most classic and interesting finishing method at the time, and it also made him recognized as "leading" in artistic creation. "At that time, "Black Cat Sheriff" was made into a seriesThe main reason is to distinguish it from the traditional form of viewing. "In addition, the black cat sheriff’s fashionable clothing style and the imaginative weapon design at the time reflected the "advanced consciousness" of Mr. Dai Tielang. "The black cat’s bullet turned, and the big brother was designed to be small. , There are mini bombs. The newspapers also criticized at that time, because these settings made the children feel absurd. However, he thinks it is scientific, and he also thinks that there is no need to refute, "Because the development of the times will change. Up to now, you see, it is true." Whether it is in form, shape, plot, character setting, even As for the animation surroundings, this cartoon is so cutting-edge that people think that this animation has transcended the times when evaluating it, and Dai Tielang's childlike innocence is not diminished in the accurate grasp of the times.
regrets that the classic generation of
hasn’t waited for the sixth episode
. In the classic creation, Dai Tielang always put the children’s opinions first, "I asked a few children, I have modified the most proud look, they may not like it. They found it a little more complicated, so I painted the one that the child is most satisfied with.” The fire of "Black Cat Sheriff" seemed to herald that Dai Lao’s next creative road would be bright. However, reality and destiny seem to be always Love joked about the enthusiasm and dreams. The biggest suspense of "Black Cat Sheriff" is the word "please watch the next episode" at the end of the fifth episode. Then, there is no next episode. The audience has been looking forward to being an old friend today from a child back then, and did not wait for this next episode. Mr. Dai should also be very sorry for this, "I was called to the personnel office that day, and they handed me a retirement certificate. Saying that I’m old enough to retire. At that moment, I was stunned. After I woke up, I didn’t say a word and turned around after taking the retirement card.” In the early 1990s, Dai Tielang reached the retirement age and added In the copyright dispute with the original author of the comics, there is no response from the "Please see the next episode" of "Black Cat Sheriff". His real director career is only ten short years, which makes Dai Tielang somewhat unwilling. In order to subsidize his family after retirement, Dai Tielang bikes to the suburbs every day to help others modify the original paintings. Until his 80s, Dai Tielang was still creating. His lover passed away and Mr. Dai retired. "It's still a pity that my deceased wife left too early. I have spent almost my entire life focusing on creation. When my lover is still there, I often turn off the lights to urge me to sleep."
■ Reminiscing
●Last year he went back to Shanghai and I visited him at his house. He has always liked to drink Coke, eat ruby milk cake, and like to joke. In May of this year, his legs were swollen and he was admitted to the hospital. When I went to see him in Hangzhou, I was still joking and shaking hands vigorously. He said he never went to the hospital, but he was willing to listen to me and cooperate with the treatment. Last two weeks, I went to visit him. He was in the ICU and was in a shallow coma, but when I heard me talking, I wanted to open my eyes and didn't open my mouth.
——Oral: Suda (Director of Shanghai Film Studio)
●In 1993, in order to decorate the third floor of Shanghai Cinema, I specially asked Dai Tielang to draw a cartoon directed by Xie Jin. On the day of the painting, he hurried to get back at noon. I held him back and asked him to have an egg fried rice, and the special dish of the restaurant on the third floor of the movie studio with egg fried tomatoes, which cost 38 yuan. money. He was given two taxi tickets from Shanghai Johnson & Johnson, but he refused to ask for it and rode away on his own. I don't have much contact with Mr. Dai, but this little thing has always been in my heart. The conduct of their generation, that generation of literary and art workers is admirable. After so many years, "Black Cat Sheriff" has gradually become a kind of complex. When I think of it, I will feel nostalgic and emotional.
——Oral: Jiang Ping (director)
● Classmates at the time, personally have personal personalities and artistic preferences. Dai Tielang has always liked things with technological elements and colors.
——Oral: Yan Dingxian (director of "Hit in the Sky", classmate Dai Tielang)
●My childhood basically grew up with the black cat sheriff, watching the black cat sergeant grow up, and my favorite song is "Ahhhh, Black Cat Sheriff", I am very honored to be the commentator in the new version of the animation. Although I have never met Mr. Dai Tielang, I know a lot of his works very well.
——Ju Ping (a well-known host who served as a commentator in the animation version in 2010)
written by/Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
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