China made the first silent film, which one was it? What year was it taken?

1905, Beijing Fengtai photo studio produced the drama documentary Dingjun Mountain, which was the first silent film in China, starring Tan Xinpei.

The plot is that Cao Jiang Zhang He attacked Meng Jiaguan, and veteran Huang Zhong begged Zhuge Liang to order the enemy to refuse. Zhuge Liang refused because of his age. Huang Zhong danced with a knife and broke his bow on the spot, so he took an arrow to kill Zhang He and used his victory to seize the land in Cao Jun in exchange for food. Huang Zhongyu became more and more brave and wise. SHEN WOO defeated the enemy general Xia and captured the important town Dingjun Mountain. ..

Once China's films came out, they had distinctive national characteristics. Maybe this is a match made in heaven. China's first film is actually a combination of the quintessence of Peking Opera, and the play is also a symbolic Dingjun Mountain. The famous actress Tan Xinpei became the first performing artist in China to set foot in the film industry.

Therefore, although this silent film made with only one hand-held wooden camera has no considerable copies, its prominent position in film history is unique.

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Silent film history

In the early days of the birth of sound films, these masters of silent film art have a strong contempt and resistance to the emergence of sound films. Indeed, the technical and artistic naivety of early audio films had a bad influence on the subtlety of silent montage art.

However, with its continuous development and maturity in technology and art, it has become the direction of film development with irresistible momentum, and many silent film masters have also begun to try to create audio films.

Silent film, also known as "silent film", is a general term for all films before the invention of sound film. After the birth of the film, due to the limitation of film sound technology, the early films were all films with images without dialogue and sound effects.

In order to solve this limitation, silent films often use single-screen subtitles to express important dialogue and sound effects, so they are also called "silent films". Some cinemas will show movies with live accompaniment by musicians according to the plot development.

By the end of1920s, with the invention of sound film technology, Tang Sulu (1926) and other films began to adopt sound technology, which shocked the audience at that time, and silent films were doomed to be eliminated by sound films.