Zhejiang Movie industry stepped into a
healthy and normal development stage after the establishment of the
People's Republic of China in 1949. The movie industry made a new restart
thanks to the reconstructions to the cinemas, to the movie market and the
policies to encourage the development of the industry. In 1958, under the
instructions of the nation's Culture Department, the Shanghai Film Studio
supported the newly built Zhejiang Film studio with a complete producing
team in screening the feature films. The team included the director Shu
Shi, actor and actress like Li Wei, Murong Wan'er, Zhang Wan and Zhang
Ying, and a staff of photographers, art designers and sound engineers. The
factory had screened over 20 acts of Zhejiang News Briefing, the
documentaries like Red Flags of Harvest Everywhere and Two
Dragons Chasing the Pearl and Happiness Everywhere and the
documentary feature film The Youth with High Spirit, etc. In the
same year, Zhejiang Slides Studio was established.
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| Shao
Opera movie The Monkey King Fighting the Skeleton Monster, screened
in 1950 by Tian Ma (heavenly horse) Movie
Studio. |
In 1958, the
Culture Bureau of Zhejiang Province and the Chinese Writers Association
Zhejiang branch (the steering committee) invited the directors and
screenwriters of Shanghai Film studio to come to Fengqiao of Zhuji County
to give lectures on the skills of writing movie scripts, and organized the
writers to observe and learn from the experiences of the industrial and
agricultural productions. As a result, the writers and directors had
screened many films to display the industrial and agricultural productions
of the Great Leap Period, such as Chasing Each Other, Thousands
Women Stirring the Sea, Poems Booth, On the Xin'anjiang
River and Silkworm Flower Girl. The cartoon movie Little
Carp Leaping over the Dragon's Gate won the Silver Award for cartoons
in the First Moscow International Movie Festival in 1959. In addition, a
lot of local operas acted by the famous performers were screened into art
movies, such as the Kun Opera Fifteen Guan, Shao Opera The
Monkey King Fighting the Skeleton Monster, Beijing Opera The Stage
Art of Gai Jiaotian and Wu Song. Xia Yan screened two movies
adapted respectively from the Lu Xun's novel Blessing and Mao Dun's
novel The Lin's Shop. He also made the movie Bloody Stele
out of the original Yue Opera Yang Libei.
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During the period, a lot of influential
feature films were screened in Zhejiang, such as The Red Women's
Troop, Ashima and The Stage Sisters which starred Bai
Yang, Xie Tian, Wu Heling, Shangguan Yunzhu, Wang Xingang, Zhu Xijuan and
Xi Fang. Most out door scenes were taken in places of Zhejiang, such as
Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Wuxing, Tonglu, Shengzhou and Jinyun.
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| During the years of the Culture
Revolution, the movie industry had suffered a great loss. Lots of
excellent movies were wrongly animadverted, for example, the famous film
The Stage Sisters. |
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