What was the first film in China?

China's first film, Dingjun Mountain (1905), Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio used a French-made wooden hand-held camera and 14 roll of film to shoot scenes in Dingjun Mountain starring the famous Peking Opera actor Tan Xinpei, such as Surrender, Knife Dancing and Confrontation.

All the early films shown in China were made by foreigners. 1905, the documentary Dingjun Mountain, a Beijing opera fragment shot by Fengtai Photo Studio, was the first film made by China people themselves. Therefore, this year is considered as the birth day of China films.

Ren Qingtai (word Jingfeng) is the founder of Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio. 1850 (thirty years of Qing Daoguang) was born in Sitaizi Village, Faku County, Liaoning Province, and his family was relatively rich. He studied photography and later came to Beijing to develop. 1892, he opened the earliest photo studio in China in Liulichang Land Temple (now experimental kindergarten in Xuanwu District, the original site no longer exists), and named it "Fengtai" from the name and name.

Later, he opened a Chinese and western pharmacy and soda factory, and opened the Daguanlou cinema in Dashilan outside the front door to show movies. Due to the lack of film sources for foreign films, Ren Qingtai bought a French-made hand-held camera and 14 roll of film from Chilov Foreign Company, which was run by a German businessman in Min, and started the attempt of China people to make films.

1905 (the specific time is summer and autumn). In order to celebrate the birthday of the master of Peking Opera and the founder of Tan School, Ren Qingtai hosted several shocking clips such as Hug, Knife Dancing and Confrontation in Dingjun Mountain, which was the first film in China.

The film was shot in the open square in the courtyard of Fengtai Photo Studio. The camera stands there motionless, allowing the actors to perform actions in front of the camera, and the light is also natural sunlight. The photographer is Ren, the closest photographer in Ren Qingtai. Ren Qingtai's role is equivalent to today's director.

It took three days to shoot this film, and the length of the finished film was three, about 600 feet. According to the screening speed at that time, 10 minutes could be screened. Therefore, China's first film is actually a documentary short film of traditional Chinese opera.

In the following years, Fengtai Photo Studio, under the auspices of Ren Qingtai, successively filmed Peking Opera films such as Qingshishan by Zhu, Meeting Guan Sheng by Xu Deyi, Baishuitan by Yu Zhenting and Leopard.

Most of these drama fragments are martial arts dramas, and most of them are starred by Peking Opera actors who are good at martial arts, which is more in line with the characteristics of silent films. Ren Qingtai's film production took four years, and he made eight short plays. It was not until a fire broke out in the 1909 studio that he stopped filming activities, and these films he shot could not be saved.

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