Zhou Daming's life story

Zhou Daming is from Chaoyang, Guangdong. 1927, apprentice and assistant of photography department of Youlian Film Company. Since 1930, I have taken charge of the camera independently, filmed several episodes of Women in the Wild River and Heroes at Sea, and played roles. 193 1 After the "September 18th Incident", influenced by left-wing filmmakers, he gave up filming martial arts films that were divorced from reality and joined Lianhua Film Company on 1932. During the period of 1933- 1937, the films were Wind (1933), Wine, Color and Wealth (1934) and New Woman (1934).

1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he took his camera to join the army in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, and then went to Zhengzhou, Henan province with director Fei Mu to shoot the film A Record of the North Battlefield to publicize the war of resistance. 1939 returned to Shanghai, and 1940 filmed Fei Mu's feature film Confucius and opera film's Song of the Ancient China (194 1) at Hua Min Film Company, in which Confucius marked the gradual maturity of his photography art. After 1942, he worked as a photographer in Zhonglian and Huaying, and made films such as Mrs. Butterfly, Fisherman's Girl, and For Who. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, films such as Spring Return (1947) were filmed in Shanghai Experimental Film Studio.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Zhou Daming joined the Shanghai Film Studio, where he served as the chief photographer from 65438 to 0953. He has shot the Palm of Man (1950), Song Jingshi (1955), Shangganling (1956), Spring is Full (1959) and The City that Never Sleeps. Among them, Shangganling, which describes the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Liaoyuan, which reflects the life of Anyuan miners, have made great achievements in photography.