Why was this film introduced to China? Answer with historical knowledge?

1895 65438+On February 28th, the French Lumiere brothers showed the film for the first time in Capitain Avenue, which was designated as the birth date of the film. From 65438 to 0896, this film was introduced to China. The first person to show a film in China was an American businessman. When jon jonsson was mentioned, his name was James Ricardo. From 1896 to 1898, he successively screened American and French short films such as "Russian Emperor's Visit to Bali House in France" in Xu Yuan, Tangjialong, Fujian North Road, Shanghai, the Seventh Hospital under the Nicheng Bridge, and the Smallpox Tea Garden, and published movie advertisements in Shenbao at that time, which caused a sensation. At that time, the audience found that this new western invention was very similar to the shadow play in ancient China. Therefore, people naturally call this art form "shadow play" or "moving shadow play". But because its projection uses electricity as the light source, it is also called "electro-optic shadow play". After that, it was gradually simplified to "movie".

Movies were originally shown in teahouses and restaurants. 1899, a Spanish businessman, Galenback, came to Shanghai with a crude film projector and some worn-out fragments of several films, and showed it for the first time in a corner of the teahouse of "Four Seas Shengping Building" on Sima Road at that time. Most news films and landscape films about mountains, running water, trains galloping, ships running, fires, people, birds and animals are produced by EMI. Each screening lasts for more than ten minutes, and each audience receives 30 copper coins. Soon, he changed eight complete short films and moved to the skating rink at Zhangpu intersection in Hongkou for screening. Ticket prices rose to 100, and business was booming. But after a long time, the audience got tired of watching it, so they had to stop the performance and finally gave it to Spanish businessman remus.

The film was also shown in the Qing court. 1904, Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her seventieth birthday. The British Ambassador to Beijing gave her a projector and several sets of movies to celebrate her birthday. Unexpectedly, only three motorcycles were released, and the motorcycle exploded, which startled Lafayette. From then on, movies were not allowed to be shown in the Qing Palace. 1905, the end party who went abroad for inspection brought back a projector, but when entertaining guests, the film machine suddenly exploded, causing the death of He Chaohua and others who worked as film translators. Because of these two accidents, the princes and ministers thought the film was unlucky, but among the people, the film screening was increasing day by day.

1904 Remus came to Shanghai to show movies. He borrowed a room downstairs in the "Qingliange" teahouse in Sima Road and set up a film department. Black cloth curtains hung on the door of the film and television department, red paper advertisements were posted outside the door, and China people were hired to stand at the door to collect tickets and play foreign drums and horns to attract audiences. He keeps changing new movies and performing magic tricks at the same time. Admission tickets are as high as 0/20 per person/kloc, and only one ticket will be displayed if there are more than 20 people. Business remained unchanged until 19 1 Xinhai Revolution broke out. This was the longest time for foreigners to show movies in Shanghai at that time.

1908, Remus built a "Hongkou Grand Theatre" with lead leather in an open space on Zhang Pu Road in Hongkou, which can accommodate 250 people. The premiere of a film is called "Dragon Case", which is the beginning of professional films in Shanghai. In the same year, he built the magnificent "Victoria Grand Theatre" at the Haining intersection of Sichuan North Road, which was the first real cinema in Shanghai. Since then, foreigners have set up more and more cinemas in Shanghai to show movies.

At the same time, some foreign production companies also sent people to China to shoot films. 1896, Muitoskop Company of the United States filmed the earliest documentary "Li Hongzhang at Grant's Tomb" with China as the theme. From 65438 to 0898, the American Thomas Edison Company sent photographers to Shanghai to shoot two documentary films, Shanghai Police and Shanghai Street View, which were released and shown to the public. 1902, Shao Zuiweng and American Levin co-produced Empress Dowager Cixi, which is the first Sino-foreign joint venture film in the history of China.

People are gradually interested in the novelty of movies, and two of them have a strong desire to make movies themselves. They are eager to learn and practice. They are Zhang Shichuan (later renamed Zhang Shichuan) and Zheng Qiuzheng. 19 13, they cooperated with Isher, an American who came to China to film at that time, and took over the "Asian Film Company" he founded in 1909 from another American, and changed its name to "Asian China Film Company", which was the first film production company in China. The first film funded by American businessmen and produced by Asian companies was Hard Wife (also known as Wedding Candle) written by Zheng Qiuzheng and directed by Zhang Shichuan. This is the first feature film made in China.