Tale of Gióng the Saint ( vi, Truyện ông Gióng) is a 1970 Vietnamese animated film which was based on

mythology Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narra ...

, directed by Ngô Mạnh Lân.

Plot

Production

By this film, director Ngô Mạnh Lân was called ''Sir "Gióng" Lân''. The film was produced at the time of

Vietnamization Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same t ...

when

USAF The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Aerial warfare, air military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part ...

attacked

North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; vi, Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), was a socialist state supported by the Soviet Union (USSR) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Southeast Asia that existed f ...

. Vietnam Animation Studio's staff had evacuated in Vĩnh Phú province (now

Phú Thọ Phú Thọ () is a district-level town in Phú Thọ Province, Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland ...

province). They made the film at the night with

oil lamp An oil lamp is a lamp used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source. The use of oil lamps began thousands of years ago and continues to this day, although their use is less common in modern times. Th ...

's light. * Style :

Puppet animation Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames i ...

* Artist : Mai Long *

Color printing Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). Any natural scene or color photograph can be optically and physiologically dissected into thre ...

by National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Films

Award

* Merit prize of Moskva International Film Festival, 1971. * Golden Lotus prize at the

Vietnam Film Festival The Vietnam Film Festival ( Vietnamese: Liên hoan phim Việt Nam), founded in 1970, is a domestic film festival of Vietnam. It is considered as the major event of Cinema of Vietnam with awards for numerous categories ranging from feature film t ...

II, 1973.Lớn lên cùng quốc gia
/ref>

References

{{Ngô Mạnh Lân Ngô Mạnh Lân 1970 films 1970 animated films 1970s animated short films Vietnamese animated films 1970s stop-motion animated films 1970 short films Animated films based on Asian myths and legends

Plot

Production

Award

See also

References