"Dali has a good scenery in March, and the butterfly spring is a good grooming..."
This song "Butterfly Spring" has left countless people with infinite beautiful memories.
Riding on the wings of singing, the classic film "Five Golden Flowers" produced by Changchun Film Studio makes people fascinated and full of reverie about the scenery of Dali, Yunnan.
Long Shadow - The "Cradle" of New Chinese Cinema
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Wang Xiaolian, the daughter of Wang Jiayi, the director of "Five Golden Flowers", recalled: "My father once told me about some of his experiences in shooting films, and these records are also recorded in his creative notes.
In fact, except for some empty shots of Cangshan and Erhai in the film, which were taken in Yunnan, the scenes of March Street and the horse racing competition that the audience saw in the film were all filmed by the crew in Sidaogou in the Tonghua area of Jilin Province. The beautiful Butterfly Spring was designed by the show's artists and completed in the Long Shadow Studio. ”
Wang Xiaolian detailed the inside story: Because when my father got the basically mature script, it was already the end of May, and the March Street Songkran Festival of that year had long passed. Plus Yunnan in June is the rainy season. Therefore, with the consent of the factory and the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and Xia Yan, most of the lenses were solved in the Tonghua and Changying Studios in Jilin Province. After the film was released, it immediately caused a strong response among the audience. And thus set off a wave of learning golden flower fever, "golden flower" suddenly became a model synonym and a symbol of honor. "Five Golden Flowers" not only blossoms throughout the country, but also floats abroad. Since 1959, "Five Golden Flowers" has been released in 46 countries, setting a record for the release of Chinese films abroad at that time.
Due to the adjustment of regional divisions, Sidaogou Village belongs to the town of Sidaogou in Linjiang City, Jilin Province. Linjiang City is located in the southeast of Jilin Province, in the hinterland of Changbai Mountain, on the banks of the Yalu River, with beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery.
The reporter came to the village of Sidaogou surrounded by mountains. Quiet mountain villages, quiet peaks, not famous for "Five Golden Flowers", wild lilies also have a spring-like beauty alone. Villager Wu Xiaoqiang pointed to the mountain peak in front of the village and told reporters: Since I was a child, I listened to the old people in the village and told me that "Five Golden Flowers" was filmed and filmed here, and everyone climbed up the mountain to see the liveliness.
A beautiful "misunderstanding" bears witness to the charm and power of the classic long film.
Changchun Film Studio (Changying), the birthplace of New Chinese cinema, has written a glorious chapter in the history of New Chinese cinema. Over the past 70 years since the establishment of Changying, it has created and produced more than 3,300 translated films, and sent more than 2,000 outstanding film talents to the whole country, which is known as the "cradle of new Chinese cinema". Like "Five Golden Flowers", Changying has produced a large number of classic films, which have been widely circulated and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, writing a brilliant chapter in the history of Chinese cinema and becoming an unforgettable impression of the times in the hearts of a generation.
In 1937, The Japanese imperialists established the Manchurian Photography Association, referred to as "Manying", which became a tool of its cultural aggression.
"After the surrender of Japan in August 1945, CCP members Liu Jianmin and Zhao Dongli secretly entered the 'Manying' and organized progressive workers to carry out the struggle to protect the factory, and on October 1, 1945, the 'Northeast Film Company' was established, and on October 1, 1946, it was renamed the 'Northeast Film Studio'. In February 1955, it was officially renamed Changchun Film Studio. In 1999, The Long Shadow Group was established. The person in charge of Long Shadow introduced.
"Ploughing with the people next to the ridges of the fields, guns and bullets and raining together with the warriors." "Wherever the field army fights, the photographer of the long shadow will shoot." Changying uses a large number of classic films that have influenced generations to forge the red gene of singing for the party and the country, for the people, for the times, and for heroes.
Classics come from life, and art is rooted in the people. Long shadow, erecting statues for the times, singing songs for the people, and casting souls for the nation. The story behind the story is evocative, moving and inspiring.
"Democratic Northeast" is the first multi-episode news documentary of the people's film, which truly and completely records the difficult course of the Northeast Liberation War. It has a total of 17 series and 106 copies. At that time, Dongying successively sent 32 photography teams to the front line and the countryside, shooting more than 300,000 feet of extremely valuable historical documents. During the shooting, 3 young photographers were sacrificed.
"The Bridge" is the first feature film of people's film. There is a scene of molten steel splashing out of the film. The splashing molten steel burned the photographer Bao Jie's clothes, because of the use of hand cameras, people could not leave, the assistant quickly put a wet coat on his body to extinguish the fire, but the assistant's body then caught fire, the other staff then one by one for the people in front of the fire, until the camera shooting was completed...
"Liu Sanjie" is the first color scenery music film in New China. In order to shape the classic "Liu Sanjie", the three artists joined hands to shape it. Huang Wanqiu is the actor of Liu Sanjie's screen image, The long shadow voice actor Zhang Guilan is the shaper of Liu Sanjie's voice image, and the color drama performance artist Fu Jinhua is the vocal singer of all the mountain songs of Liu Sanjie. "Liu Sanjie" caused a huge sensation after its release, it is not only the pioneering work of China's scenery music films, but also the film with the largest copy circulation at that time, known as the "three beauty" masterpieces of renmei, songmei and jingmei.
There is no computer production, there is no variety of fonts to choose from, and the subtitles of movies produced by Changying before 2004 are written by subtitlers, and many calligraphers have appeared among them, such as Su Ping, Yao Junqing, Jin Jong-ho, etc.
Lei Zhenbang, a famous composer of Long Shadow, has composed more than 100 film songs in the 30 years of long film work.
At that time, after Lei Zhenbang received the task of composing music for the movie "Visitor on the Iceberg", he immediately went to Xinjiang to experience life, and almost ran all over the outposts on the Karakoram Mountains. Having rubbed shoulders with the avalanche, he heard a touching love story from the mouth of a Tajik warrior and was struck by the soldier's tearful singing. That night, with full of passion, he made "Why Are Flowers So Red" in one breath.
Therefore, there is such a saying, "Why are the flowers so red", "Missing comrades-in-arms", "Snow Lotus on the Iceberg", "Pamir's Eagle" and other classic interludes are musical miracles created by composer Lei Zhenbang with his soul.
In 1956, the director of "Shangganling", Sha Meng, approached the composer Liu Chi and put forward the hope: "This song can spread throughout the country with the release of the film." After a few years, even if the film is not performed, as long as the song is sung, the moving scene of the film will reappear. ”
Liu Chi picked up the first draft of the lyrics and read it several times, but he couldn't find the tune. He told the director that the song had no rhythm and was difficult to circulate. Shamen asked the lyricist Qiao Yu to rewrite a poem: "A big river has wide waves, and the wind blows rice and flowers on both sides of the river..." The beautiful lyrics infected Liu Chi, who locked himself in his room for a whole week and completed the classic "My Motherland" with full concentration.
Movies and movie songs, the same heart, the same classic, mutual achievement, complement each other. Founded in 1947, the Long Shadow Orchestra uses music to witness the development of the motherland. For more than 70 years, the Long Film Orchestra has recorded music for more than 700 film and television productions. "My Motherland", "Hero Praise", "Why Are The Flowers So Red", "Ao Bao Meets", "Let's Swing the Double Oar", "Mountain Song is Like Spring River Water", "Butterfly Spring" and so on, etc., are popular among the population and classics have been passed down from generation to generation.
A vivid story, a series of moving memories, make people feel respect and emotion. "Dong Cunrui", "Shangganling", "Plain Guerrilla", "Heroes and Children", "Visitors on the Iceberg", these excellent films that stand up for the times, sing songs for the people, and cast the soul for the nation have become the red memories that will never fade in people's hearts.
"Changying should always insist on putting social benefits in the first place, adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, and insist on putting the main energy into the creation of mainstream value films and television." The relevant person in charge of Changying Group introduced that the red gene is inherited and the red blood is continued. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", Changying has successively launched a number of high-quality works with main themes and positive energy, such as "Old Auntie", "Border Keeper", "Huang Danian", "Yang Jingyu", "Youth as a Good Companion to Return home", etc. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, film and television works such as "731", "Hanzang Cast Soul", "Thunder Order", "Sniper", "No Spring Will Not Come", "Return to Hometown" and other film and television works are all in full swing.
In less than 10 days, the 16th China Changchun Film Festival will be grandly opened (December 21-25, 2021), allowing us to witness the new strength and glory of Chinese cinema. In the new era, Chinese cinema is striding towards a new journey, using contemporary Chinese story images to express lofty values and beautiful emotions, and using the light and shadow colors of the development of the times to present magnificent pictures and thousands of weather.
Text: Meng Haiying
Images and video footage: Changying Group Co., Ltd
Video Editor: Li Chengwei, Xu Wenjing, Lou Gengning, Jiang Qi
LOGO design: Jiang Di
Planner: Meng Haiying Liu Yiqing
Coordinator: Zhu Sixiong