The earliest feature film that can be shown in China was shot in 1922.

The earliest feature film that can be shown in China is Workers' Love, which was shot at 1922.

The creator of Love of Labor has made a breakthrough in creating screen time and space and breaking through the barriers of stage restrictions. There are six scenes in the movie * * *, with the fruit shop as the center. Each scene is relatively independent, and the actors perform in an independent and relatively closed space.

These scenes are very simple, and most of them are scenic films. However, the depth of the scene is enhanced by comparing the positions of the objects before and after. For example, in Yiguang, Jia Zhu, there are two tables in the foreground and couplets in the background. Another example is the setting of the tiger stove in the teahouse, which is built deeply and avoids planarization.

Cultural influence of movies

"Workers' Love" is one of the four series films produced by 1922 at the beginning of the establishment of Star Film Co., Ltd. The other three films are The Funny King's Trip to Shanghai, Building a Monster Theater and Zhang Xinsheng. However, there are many subjective shots and overlapping pictures in the film to express the feelings and psychological activities of the characters, and the degraded photography is used to express the comedy effect. The switching between shots has been quite smooth and natural.

These four films are short plays with simple plots and funny themes. However, because the plots of these films are too simple and divorced from life, the funny plots are mostly simple gimmicks, and there are often some violent scenes, so they are not successful after being put on the market and the box office performance is not good. The failure of these films directly led to the change of the shooting route of star film companies. Since then, there have been fewer such funny short plays in star films.