Gu Chan Wan

Director of Chinese art films. Born in Nanjing, Wan Laiming's twin brother. One of the pioneers of early cartoons in China, and the creator of paper-cut films in China. In 1921, he graduated from the Western Painting Department of Shanghai Art College, and successively taught at this university, Shanghai University, and Nanjing Art College. In 1925, he studied national cartoons with his brother, and in 1926, he entered the Great Wall Studio to create China's first silent animated short film "Big Trouble Studio", and in 1931, he produced an anti-Japanese cartoon. In 1935, he created China's first sound cartoon "Camel Dance"; In 1940, he co-produced my country's first large-scale cartoon "Iron Fan Princess" with his brother; In 1958, he filmed my country's first paper-cut film "Zhu Bajie Eats Watermelon". The paper-cut pieces he created absorb ancient folk arts such as shadow puppetry, window flowers, and paper-cutting, and the characters are vivid and delicate, the mood is simple and elegant, and has strong national characteristics. Among them, "The Fisherman" won the second prize of the second national children's literary and artistic creation in 1980; "Ginseng Doll" won the Honorable Mention at the 4th Leipzig International Short Film and Documentary Film Festival of the GDR in 1961 and the Best Children's Film Award at the 1st Alexander International Film Festival in Egypt in 1979. "Golden Conch" won the Lumumba Award at the 3rd Asian-African Film Festival in Indonesia in 1964.