Beijing News (reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) On November 2, the chinese classic animation "Tianshu Qitan 4k Commemorative Edition" produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio successfully held a "tribute" theme premiere ceremony in Beijing. The film will be released nationwide on November 5.
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Born in 1983, the film "Tianshu Qitan" is the third color animated feature film of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio. In the 1950s, Te Wei, then director of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, proposed that Chinese animation should "explore the road of national style", and pointed out that the animation creation process should follow the requirements of "strange and interesting beauty", and under the creative rule of "not imitating others and not repeating yourself", Shangmei Film created a number of "firsts" in the history of Chinese animation and film: the first color film, the first stereoscopic film, the first paper-cut film, the first live-action synthetic puppet film... In this context, "Heavenly Book Of Wonders" came into being.
At the premiere, a VCR that spanned time and space once again ignited tears in the audience. In the video, Qian Yunda, co-director of "Tianshu Qitan", Ding Jianhua, voice actor of "Egg Birth", Cheng Xiaohua, voice actor of "Fox Girl", Cao Lei, voice actor of "Little Emperor", and Qiao Hazel, voice actor of "Fat Chef", have appeared one after 38 years to share the mental process of creating "Tianshu Qitan". Qian Yunda specifically mentioned the collective memory 618 compound belonging to the Shangmei Film animation people, "everyone lives in the same courtyard, and everyone is very familiar."
Li Zao, deputy director of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, also came to the premiere site, expounded the original intention of the film's digital restoration, expressed his tribute to the old artists, and hoped that with the release of the film, more and more audiences would feel the charm of Chinese classic animation. Zhang Yang, artistic director of sound restoration in the film, said that he was deeply shocked by the classic picture of "Tianshu Qitan" as a child. When Zhang Yang became a restorer and took charge of the sound restoration work of "Tianshu Qitan", he asked the restoration team to uphold the restoration purpose of not destroying the true appearance of the original film, to preserve the precious performance and music as the premise, and then to expand the surround sound effects such as mountain air, enhance the atmosphere of the film, and make up for the realistic elements.
Zhang Yang. Courtesy of the organizer
Li Zhen from the China Film Archive was deeply touched by the restoration project of "Tianshu Qitan". He said that the sound restoration is to separate the sound from the mono, and its complexity is equivalent to extracting all the monochromes in a painting by hand, and the restoration team has finally succeeded in doing so. Being able to hear the surround sound effects of "Tianshu Qitan" in the theater proves that the chinese animation film restoration business itself is a strange story.
Geng Le. Courtesy of the organizer
Director Xin Yukun is deeply fortunate to see "Tianshu Qitan 4k Commemorative Edition" on the big screen, he said that not only film industry practitioners want to see this movie, but all people who have seen this animated feature film can come to the theater to relive it. Actor Geng Le expressed his gratitude to the film's restorers, and it is precisely because of their efforts that the audience can enjoy the better sound and picture texture of "Tianshu Qitan" in the theater.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Edited by Xu Meilin Proofreader Li Lijun