| | Animation in the Middle Kingdom |
 | | Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan's Princess Iron Fan (1941), a seminal work in Chinese animation, is by some accounts the third animated feature ever made, after Disney's Snow White and the Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels (1939). |
 | | Perhaps it's the bigger budget that allows for an impressive variety of animation techniques—everything from simple line drawings to full-blown CGI effects—or perhaps it's the filmmakers' uniquely rueful sensibilities, but McDull is a delight on a level Grandma never quite achieves. |
 | | Te Wei's Feeling from Mountain and Water (1988) is an even more exquisite short, a twenty-minute, totally wordless tale of a young boy who learns to play music from an old man. As elegantly paced as recited poetry, with landscapes that drown you in their beauty, the film is a transcendental work of art. |
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