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Filmmaker · China

Wan Laiming

Died in 1997

Wan Laiming was born in Nanjing in 1900, the twin of Wan Guchan. With his brothers he worked at the Commercial Press in Shanghai, made the first Chinese animated films, including the first with sound in 1935, and then, in 1940, the country's first animated feature film. Back from Hong Kong in 1954, he took over the Shanghai animation studio, where in 1956 he directed the first Chinese animated film in colour. The Cultural Revolution made him suspect. He died in Shanghai on 7 October 1997.

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