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 reform and rectification of cinemas and the movie market, and the implementation of policies to encourage the development of the industry. In 1958, under the directions of the Ministry of Culture, the Shanghai Film Studio supported the newly built Zhejiang Film studio with a complete production team in making feature films. The team included the director Shu Shi, actors and actresses like Li Wei, Murong Wan'er, Zhang Wan and Zhang Ying, and a staff of photographers, art designers and sound engineers. Zhejiang Film Studio produced over 20 Zhejiang News Briefings, 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 Great Ambition, etc. In the same year, Zhejiang Slides Studio was established.
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| Shao Opera movie The Monkey King Fighting the Skeleton Monster, was produced in 1950 by Tianma (heavenly horse) Film 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 made many films to display the industrial and agricultural productions of the Great Leap Period, such as Chasing Each Other, Thousands of Women Stirring the Sea, Poems Booth, On the Xin'anjiang River and Silkworm Flower Girls. 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 performed by famous actors and actresses were converted into art movies, among which were the Kun Opera Fifteen Guan, the Shao Opera The Monkey King Fighting the Skeleton Monster, the Beijing Operas The Stage Art of Gai Jiaotian and Wu Song. Xia Yan made two movies adapted respectively from 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 produced in Zhejiang, such as The Red Women's Troop, Ashima and The Stage Sisters. Such famous actors and actresses as Bai Yang, Xie Tian, Wei Heling, Shangguan Yunzhu, Wang Xingang, Zhu Xijuan and Xie Fang once experienced life or filmed the exteriors in Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Wuxing, Tonglu, Shengzhou and Jinyun.
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| During the years of the Cultural Revolution, the movie industry suffered great losses. Lots of excellent movies were wrongly animadverted, for example, the famous film The Stage Sisters. |
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