History of Movie Development in China

The Chinese film industry began at the beginning of the 20th century. 1905, Ren Qingtai (Jingfeng), the founder of Beijing's Fengtai Photo Studio, shot a clip of Dingjunshan starring Tan Xinpei, the first film made by the Chinese themselves. 1913, the American-run Asia Film Company shot China's first short film with a storyline, A Difficult Husband, A Difficult Wife, which was written by Zheng Zhengqiu and directed by Zhang Shichuan. In 1917, the Commercial Press in Shanghai produced short films on current affairs. In 1917, the Commercial Press in Shanghai made short films on current affairs. In the following year, the Department of Movie and Theater was established, and two of the earliest long feature films in China, Yan Ruisheng and Red Pink Skull, were made thereafter. 1922, Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu organized the Star Movie Company with Zhou Jianyun, etc., and completed the Orphan Saving Ancestors, written by Zheng Zhengqiu and directed by Zhang Shichuan, which was seriously related to the social reality at that time, and the method of expression had a stronger flavor of life, and the acting skills were natural, friendly and simple, The acting was natural, affectionate and simple. At the same time, a number of large-scale film companies appeared, such as the Greater China Lily Film Company, the Shenzhou Film Company, the Great Wall Picture Company, and the Minxin Film Company. In 1925, the Shao brothers founded the Tianyi Film Company, which firstly drew on folktales to make a number of costume films, and started the craze of making costume films in Shanghai, and also gained a foothold in the South China market.

Between 1925 and 1927, 140 small and medium-sized film companies were set up in Shanghai; films were also made in Guangzhou, Beiping (now Beijing), Tianjin and other cities, and a wave of martial arts films was formed in 1928 after the Star Company started to shoot "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple". In the following four years, Shanghai companies made more than 400 feature films, a large part of which were "burning", "martial arts", "gods and monsters" and other bizarre and crude films. In 1928, the Minxin Film Company and the Greater China Lily Film Company combined to form the Lianhua Film Company, which successively made films such as Love and Duty, Hengniang, and Peach Blossom Sobbing in Blood, etc. In 1931, the Star Film Company and the Youlian Film Company succeeded in the trial production of wax discs of the sound films Red Peony and Yu Meiren, and the Huaguang Film Company completed the first Chinese sound film, Rainy Night, in Japan in 1931. In 1931, the Huaguang Movie Company completed the first Chinese movie with sound on film in Japan, which was called "After the Rain". By 1935, China had completed the transition from silent movies to talkies. Movie, a continuous video picture developed by the combination of moving picture and slide projection, is a modern art of vision and hearing, and a synthesis of modern science and technology and art that can accommodate a variety of arts such as theater, photography, painting, music, dance, writing, sculpture, architecture and so on. Movie is a comprehensive art that uses strong lighting to project the filmed image continuously on the screen, which looks like a real moving image. [1] World cinema and the film industry originated in the late 19th century in France, Britain, and the United States.

Chinese cinema includes mainland Chinese cinema, Hong Kong cinema, and Taiwan cinema.

On August 11, 1896, the "Western Shadow Play" was shown in Shanghai's Xueyuan Yiyi Village, which was the first film screening in China, and opened the prelude to the development of Chinese cinema. Chinese film was born in 1905, Beijing Fengtai photo studio founder Ren Qingtai shot by the famous Peking Opera actor Tan Xinpei starring in the "Dingjunshan" clip, which is the first film produced by the Chinese people themselves, marking the birth of the Chinese film, Ren Qingtai is also known as "the father of the Chinese film. [4] After the crushing of the Gang of Four, the film industry gained development. 1977 film production began to recover, the average annual output from 1980 to 1984 reached about 120, the average annual audience attendance of about 25 billion, Chinese film entered a new period of vigorous development. 2018, China's annual film production up to 1,082, the annual box office reached 60.7 billion yuan, and the country ** ** has 60,079 screens. ** has 60,079 screens.