China's first color cartoon? (year)?

China's first color cartoon was Why Crows Are Black (1955). Why crows are black is an animated short film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio 1956. The short film was directed by Li Kewei and Qian Jiajun, and Yifan was the screenwriter.

The film mainly tells a beautiful bird, full of feathers, gorgeous and moving, but arrogant; The story of disdaining to build a bird's nest in autumn, freezing in winter, being ignited by wildfire when heating, and being blackened into a crow.

Why crows are black behind the scenes?

In the early 1950s, both feature films and art films in China film industry began trial production of color films. Because the production cycle of art films is relatively short, the experiment of color films is completed before feature films.

At that time, the Fine Arts Film Group of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (the predecessor of Shanghai Animation Film Studio) completed the first color cartoon "Why the Crow is Black" in New China on 1955, which was the first achievement of the color film experiment.

Due to the successful experience of color photography and the trial production of special pigments for cartoons, China fine arts films entered the full-color film stage from 1956.