What was the first movie in China?

China's First Movie "Dingjunshan" In 1905, Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio used a French-made wooden-cased hand-cranked camera and 14 rolls of film to shoot scenes such as "Invitation", "Dance of the Sword" and "Encounter" in "Dingjunshan" starring famous Peking Opera actor Tan Xinpei, "The fight" in "Dingjunshan", starring the famous Peking opera actor Tan Xinpei, was captured on film.

Early movies shown in China were made by foreigners, but in 1905, a documentary on Peking Opera, "Dingjunshan," made by the Fengtai Photo Studio in Beijing, was the first movie made by the Chinese themselves. This year is therefore recognized as the birth date of Chinese cinema.

Ren Qingtai (任庆泰), the founder of Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio, was born in 1850 in the village of Sitaizi, Faku County, Liaoning Province, in the 30th year of the Daoguang era of the Qing Dynasty. He opened the first photo studio in China, taking one character from each of his words and name, and named it "Fengtai".

Later, he opened and operated Chinese and Western pharmacies and soda factories, and opened the Daguanlou Theater in Dajie, outside the Qianmen District, where he showed movies. Due to the lack of foreign film sources, Ren Qingtai bought a French hand-cranked camera and 14 rolls of film from a German businessman's Qiluofu foreign firm in Dongjiao Minxiang, and began the Chinese attempt to make movies.

In 1905 (the exact time is said to be summer and fall), in order to celebrate the birthday of Tan Xinpei, a master of Peking Opera and the founder of the "Tan School", Ren Qingtai presided over a celebration of several strong sequences in the Peking Opera "Dingjunshan" starring Tan Xinpei, such as "Invitation to Tassel", "Dance", "Dance", "Dance", and so on.

The movie was shot in the open square in the courtyard of Fengtai Photo Studio. The camera was set up there motionless, allowing the actors to perform actions in front of the camera, and the light was also the use of natural daylight. The cameraman was Ren Zhonglun, one of Ren Qingtai's closest photographers. The role of Ren Qingtai is equivalent to that of a director today.

The film took three days to shoot, and the finished film was three books long, about 600 feet. It could be shown for about 10 minutes at the speed of projection at the time. Thus, the first Chinese movie was actually a short documentary on opera.

In the following years, Fengtai Photo Studio, under the auspices of Ren Qingtai, shot some other Peking Opera films, such as Yu Jusheng's and Zhu Wenying's Green Stone Mountain, Xu Deyi's Collecting Guan Sheng, Yu Zhenting's Baishuitan and The Money Leopard, and other clips from the opera.

The vast majority of these opera clips are martial arts plays, starring mostly Peking opera actors who specialize in martial arts, which is more in line with the characteristics of silent films. Ren Qingtai's movie production work lasted four years before and after, **** ingested into the opera short film 8. Until 1909 because of the photo studio suffered a fire, only to stop filming activities, he made these films have not been preserved.

In April 1949, the first movie of new China, "The Bridge", was filmed.

In 1949, amidst the rumbling of the cannons welcoming the victory, the Northeast Film Studio completed the production of the feature film "The Bridge", and from then on, China's movie business opened a new page.