Recently, the black-and-white-to-color 4K restoration feature film "The Eternal Airwaves" caused controversy because of a poster.
On October 10, the Rights Protection Department of the China Film and Literature Society published "The Right of Writers' Attribution Cannot Be Infringed" on Weibo, saying that the poster of the recently re-released classic movie "The Eternal Radio Wave" will delete the screenwriter's signature, which is in stark contrast to the situation that the original poster listed "Screenwriter: Lin Jin" in the first line, and asked relevant parties to immediately stop distributing posters and restore the screenwriter's signature, otherwise legal measures will be taken.
Comparison of the poster of "The Eternal Wave"
The poster screenwriter's signature is controversial
On October 6, the black-and-white-to-color 4K restoration feature film "The Eternal Electric Wave" officially landed in theaters nationwide, which is the first black-and-white classic feature film to enter the theater after 4K color restoration.
Directed by Wang Ping, written by Lin Jin, and starring Sun Daolin and Yuan Xia, "The Eternal Radio Wave" was first released in China in 1958, and was the first classic film in New China to tell the hero of the party's hidden front.
The re-screening of the classic feature film has received praise from many audiences: "The picture quality is very good, and I finally understand why Sun Daolin is the idol of that generation." "I know the ending, but I see ' Comrades, farewell, I miss you!' When I was, I still wanted to cry. ”
However, in the new poster of the film's re-screening, the words "Screenwriter: Lin Jin" in the original poster were missing, which caused public protests from the China Film Literature Society.
Source: Screenshot of Weibo
In the early morning of the 10th, the China Film Literature Society issued a document saying that "the authorship right of screenwriters cannot be infringed", condemning relevant parties for violating the spirit of the Copyright Law and not respecting the intellectual property rights of creators, demanding that the dissemination of erroneous posters be stopped immediately and the screenwriter's signature be restored, otherwise legal means will be taken to protect their rights.
It is understood that the Chinese Film Literature Society was founded on January 16, 1983 by Xia Yan's initiative, and is the only community organization for Chinese film screenwriters, which is committed to the protection of the rights and interests of screenwriters and screenwriting works and industry self-discipline for many years.
Who should be in front of the writers and directors?
Subsequently, the film restorer, the China Film Archive, made changes to the previously released poster and added the signature of "Screenwriter Lin Jin".
It is understood that this 4K restored version of "The Eternal Radio Wave" was jointly completed by the CCTV Central Video 5G New Media Platform and the China Film Archive, combining China's human-computer interactive AI coloring technology with independent intellectual property rights with traditional restoration techniques, and repairing more than 160,000 frames of black and white images of the original film frame by frame for more than 7 months.
After the poster was revised, the Rights Protection Department of the China Film and Literature Society issued a statement again, arguing that although the poster has been signed, it is placed after "Director: Wang Ping", which is still different from the original poster's "screenwriter in front, director in the back" the order of signature. They hope that in addition to the right of signature, the re-screening party should also respect the right of ranking and will retain the right to further pursue legal responsibility.
The screenwriter of this movie, what else is the story?
It is worth mentioning that the controversial "screenwriter Lin Jin" also has a story behind it.
In fact, this "Lin Jin" is not one person, but three people: Du Yin, Li Qiang, and Huang Gang.
On the evening of October 10, the China Film Archive published an article entitled "Who is he?" Who are they? ——
Poster of "The Eternal Wave"
Among them, Li Qiang was one of the backbones of our party's underground work and a legendary figure on the hidden front. He provides the most direct, moving and authentic historical material for "The Eternal Wave".
In November 1927, the first political defense and intelligence special agency of the Communist Party of China, the Central Special Branch, was established in Shanghai, and Li Qiang served as the chief of the fourth section of communications, under the direct leadership of Zhou Enlai. In 1929, through complete self-study, he developed the first radio transceiver of our Party, which was praised as "an epoch-making revolution in the history of the Party's communications."
At the age of 44, Li Qiang led the technical staff to design and manufacture the "Nine-Headed Bird" megaphone, and at the founding ceremony, it was this loudspeaker that sent the strongest sound to the world.
Li Qiang is not only proficient in radio technology, but also an economic wizard. In his revolutionary career of more than seventy years, he has done a lot of groundbreaking and pioneering work in the fields of scientific research, military production, radio and telecommunications, and foreign trade and economic cooperation.
Du Yin, one of the screenwriters, went to Yan'an to participate in the revolution at the age of 20, studied in the drama department of Lu Xun Art and Literature Academy, and began to engage in literary and artistic creation in 1949 when he was the deputy head of the Northeast Literary and Art Troupe. After the establishment of the Central Film Bureau, he was hired as a special screenwriter for the Screenwriting Institute.
Huang Gang, who also studied in Yan'an, is a famous reportage writer, political commentator, outstanding journalist and screenwriter in China. Before going to Yan'an, Huang Gang worked briefly at the Central Film Studio, the Kuomintang's official film institution, and he was familiar with the daily state of Kuomintang officers and agents, and this experience became the material for him to write the script of "The Eternal Airwaves".
The article concludes: "All three screenwriters were revolutionary fighters, and their signatures on film resembled intelligence codes. The immortal masterpieces they left us and their once little-known names will be remembered by future generations. ”
Text/Reporter Ren Siyu
Editor/Bow Lifang