Chinese Cartoon: Deer Bell (complete)

This is the complete 20-minute animated short, "Deer Bell," aka "Lu Ling," from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. It's done entirely in the style of traditional Chinese ink painting. (Another poster on KZbin describes it as "brush painting animation.") The film has no dialogue and few sound effects, but relies on a music score performed by traditional string, woodwind and percussion instruments. It tells the story of a fawn separated from its parents after the parents fend off an attack on the fawn by a swooping hawk. A young girl and her grandfather who live in the mountains are collecting mushrooms and herbs nearby when they find the lone fawn and decide to take care of it. The girl is especially playful with the fawn and the two become quite close. She puts a bell on a string around its neck (hence the film's title). According to IMDB, the film was made in 1982 and directed by Tang Cheng and Wu Chiang, neither of whom has any other directing credits on IMDB. I recorded this off an educational TV station back in the 1980s. If you want to see more films like this, please subscribe to the Art of East and West channel.