Early Chinese Film
(Before 1931)
Chinese film industry began in the early 20th century. In 1905, Beijing Fengtai studio founder Ren Feng shot by Tan Xinpei starring "Ding Junshan" fragment, which is produced by the Chinese themselves in the first film. In 1913, operated by Asian American film company shooting a movie by the writer in autumn Zheng, Zhang Ishikawa, director of China's first short story are "hard to husband his wife is difficult." Shanghai Commercial Press in 1917 shooting short films on current affairs. The following year the establishment of the activities of the Department of shadow play, after shooting two of the earliest Chinese feature films long, "Yan Rui Health" and "red skull." In 1922, Zhang and Zheng Ishikawa is the fall, Zhou Jianyun organizations such as the film's star, in 1923 completed by the autumn writer Zheng, Zhang Ishikawa, director of the "ancestral save orphans", the film deals with serious social reality, with more ways The strong flavor of life, acting natural, warm, simple. At the same time, there have been large lily of the Chinese film companies, China's video, picture of the Great Wall company, the new film company and a number of larger movie company. Ong Shao brothers in 1925, founded the film company Tianyi, first of all based on folk stories, take a number of film costumes, in Shanghai and set off an upsurge of shooting film costumes, but also to Southeast Asia, based on the market. 1925 ~ 1927, Shanghai has set up 140 small and medium-sized film; Guangzhou, Peking (now Beijing), Tianjin and other cities also shot the film. Shooting star in 1928's "Hong Liansi fire" after the formation of a martial arts film craze. Since then, the 4-year period the Shanghai company took more than 400 feature films, most of which is "on fire", "martial arts" and "Genie" and bizarre, crudely made videos. In 1928, the new, Greater China, such as movies Lily's Film Lian into the company, has taken the "love and duty," and "mother-hang," and "Peach Blossom blood in mind," and so on film. In 1930, the movie stars and film Union's successful trial wax disc audio pronunciation film "female singer Red Peony" and "Beautiful Lady Yu." 1931 years on the audio-ray film in Japan, completed China's first on-chip sound film, "Once the storm is over." To 1935, China completed the film from the silent to sound film of the transition.
Left-wing film movement