Analysis on Early Chinese Animation Film Music and Its Historical Status

摘要

Before 1949, Chinese animation film music develops quite far behind. Chinese animation film music experiences a long development history at early stage. It can be said that the creation of Camels Offered Dance is a milestone in the early stage of Chinese animation film music development. It realizes the transition from silence to sound in the early stage of Chinese animation film development, greatly enhancing the appeal of animation film. From 1935 when the first sound animation film appears to 1949 when the new China is founded, China's early animation film's musical elements get further enriched during the 14 years of extremely hard and bitter exploration and development. Scenes of City Life, an animation work created by He Luting, relies on its animation music to become a milestone film in China's animation film music history and it is the "first" Chinese animation film with composed score. Afterwards, Princess Iron Fan, an animation music created by Lu Zhongren, further pushes Chinese animation film music to a new development period. Animation film music is an important component of animation film. It meets audience's basic audio and visual needs during watching. The film music and animation film complement each other, improving the animation film's appeal and contributing to arousing audience's emotional resonance. This paper starts with various development phases of Chinese animation film music at early stage and combines with relevant features of Chinese animation film music at early stage in order to explore Chinese animation film music at early stage and its historical status.