''Emperor's Dream'' (Chinese: 皇帝梦) is a Chinese puppet film produced by the Northeast Film company in

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Background

On October 1, 1946, the

Northeast Film Studio Northeast Film Studio or Northeastern Film Studio () was one of the first formally established movie production company in the northeast part of China. It was the communist party's first full-function film studio. Early history Following Japan's ...

was merged with the Yan'an Film Studio (延安电影制片厂). The film is known to be produced in 1947 when the

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company was being disintegrated from the Japanese company

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. The new studio would later be renamed to

Changchun Film Studio Changchun Film Studio Group Corporation () is a Chinese film production company in Changchun. It is one of the studios transitioned from the 1940s, and has been considered one of the cornerstones of the Cinema of China, Chinese film industry. E ...

. In the midst of all the changes, Emperor's Dream is considered the first puppet film made after the declaration of the

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.Anyang Government.
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Story

The story is about exposing and satirizing the corruption of the

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party using

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s in an exaggerated fashion.

References

External links

The film at China's Movie Database
1947 animated short films 1947 films Puppet films Chinese black-and-white films {{1940s-China-film-stub