While exploring the transformation path of the old film studios represented by Long Shadow, people can't help but be reminded of those equally shining names of that year: Long Shadow, Bayi, Beiying, Shangying, Pearl River, Xi'an... Under the surge of the wave of marketization, these film manufacturers, which once occupied the main part of Chinese entertainment life, had to work together from the brothers of the year to today's different futures.
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Founded in October 1945, Changchun Film Studio is known as the "cradle of new Chinese cinema" and is the largest comprehensive film studio in China. In the 70 years since its establishment, Changchun Film Studio has produced nearly a thousand feature films, especially films with rural themes and war themes, and the works are full of original local atmosphere and the rugged and bold style of the black land. Changchun Film Studio has made great contributions to the translation and production of foreign films, in addition to shooting a large number of documentaries, science and education films, and art films. Each film represents the efforts of long-term filmmakers, and each one tells a love for movies. On August 6, 2012, Changying Group held a design report meeting of the "Universal 100" movie theme park in Haikou City, Hainan Province. Cui Yongyuan, a CCTV host known for telling the truth, angrily said on his Weibo: A huge project covering an area of 7,000 acres with a total investment of 43.6 billion yuan and hailed as a world-class movie theme park has surfaced. - This news is infuriating! The original film base has been brutally demolished, and the construction of large-scale construction in Hainan has become a naked real estate developer, but it still enjoys the state's cultural support fund. Old memories: "White Haired Girl", "Iron Warrior", "Dong Cunrui", "Ji Hongchang", "Beidou", "Lighthouse Family", "People to Middle Age", "Founding Ceremony".
Bayi Film Studio was founded on August 1, 1952, formerly known as the Eighth Route Army "Yan'an Film Troupe", mainly to shoot film and television films with military themes that will never fade away, and is a comprehensive film studio with the production of feature films, military education films, news documentaries, national defense scientific research films, television films and television dramas. Memories of yesteryear: "Shining Red Star", "Red Detachment of Women", "Bitter Cauliflower", "Mine Warfare", "Returning to the Heart Like An Arrow", "Erquan Yingyue", "Echo of Qilian Mountain", "Gunshots in the Solun Valley", "Majestic Kunlun", "Armageddon", "The Great Turn", etc.
Beijing Film Studio was formerly known as Peking Film Studio, which was founded on April 20, 1949, and was renamed Beijing Film Studio on the day of the birth of New China. In the 1950s, classic films such as "Song of Youth", "Red Flag Spectrum" and "Eternal Life in the Fire" were filmed, ushering in the first brilliant period of The North Film Studio. After experiencing the catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution" for ten years, The North Film Studio was reborn and filmed a large number of adapted films of literary masterpieces, forming a production style with strong cultural heritage and national characteristics. When the reform of China's film system began in 1993, state-owned film studios generally fell into the pain of transformation due to financial weaning and competition from private film companies, but the production volume of The North Film Studio was still steadily advancing. In 1999, the Beijing Film Studio and seven other units directly under the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television were integrated into the China Film Group Corporation, and the original production area will also be demolished on a large scale, from then on, the Beijing Film Studio, which is the same age as the Republic, will disappear forever and be replaced by the "China Film Group Corporation Beijing Film Studio". Old Memories: "Dragon Sugou", "Song of Youth", "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Immortality in the Fire", "Early Spring February", "Wise Tiger Mountain", "Camel Xiangzi", "Little Flower", "Founding of the People's Republic", "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Dog", "Tiananmen", "Looking for Jackie Chan", "Nanjing! Nanjing》
As the birthplace of Chinese cinema, Shanghai Film Studio has had a unique advantage in Shanghai since its establishment on November 16, 1949, and the first leadership team included Yu Ling, Zhong Jingguang, Chen Baichen and Zhang Junxiang. From its inception until 1985, Shanghai Film Studio was integrated and reorganized several times, but the name was eventually retained as Shanghai Film Studio. At the same time, this is also an important period for the achievement of the glory of the film, laying the leading position of its southern film town. In recent years, the newly established Shanghai Film Group, which integrates the resource advantages of Shanghai Film in many aspects, has now developed into a highly competitive mixed-ownership modern enterprise group, continuing to produce many masterpieces with market influence, and becoming a representative example of the successful transformation of many established state-owned film studios.
Old Memories: "Chicken Feather Letter", "Li Shuangshuang", "Women's Basketball No. 5", "Lin Zexu", "Nie Er", "Red Women's Army", "Old Things in Seongnam", "The Sound of the Wind", "Lovely China", "College Entrance Examination 1979", "Wudang Teenager", "Twenty-Four Cities"
Xi'an Film Studio
Since its establishment in August 1958, Xi'an Film Studio has mainly shot feature films, although it is located in a corner, it once represented the highest artistic achievement of Chinese cinema, known as the collective cradle of the "fifth generation" of directors, and walked out of Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhou Xiaowen, Chen Kaige, Gu Changwei and other well-known directors at home and abroad. However, with the end of the era of monopoly filmmaking by state-owned film studios and the reorganization of film resources, Beijing has gradually become the center of filmmakers' activities, and the northward movement of many film talents has become a fatal wound to the development of Western Film in the new era. After a period of silence, in 2009, with the approval of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Western Film Group Co., Ltd., which integrates film and television production, cultural media, audio and video publishing, and cinema lines, was formally established, becoming one of the four major film groups in the layout of the national film industry. Old Memories: "Old Well", "Red Sorghum", "Life", "Child King", "Xi'an Incident", "Horse Thief", "Hunting Ground Zasa", "Wheat Field", "Blood"
Guangxi Film Studio began to prepare in 1958, but it was not until 1975 that it began to produce feature films, and after several name changes, it was officially called Guangxi Film Studio in 1980. As a rising star, Guangxi Factory has the trend of catching up later, and in the 80s it entered the peak of glory, "Yellow Land", "The Tramp and the Swan", "The Great Parade", "Arc Light" has won many awards in the world, "Blood Battle Taierzhuang", "The Republic Will Not Forget", "Baise Uprising" and other classics that can be called the main theme of red, "One and Eight" makes Guangxi Factory have the title of "Cradle of Chinese Exploration Films". However, with the beginning of the reform of the film system, problems such as insufficient funds, backward technology, and brain drain have become more and more obvious, and have become a shackle hindering its development for many years. Thinking bitterly, Guangxi Film Studio had to embark on the market-oriented road of multi-party financing, diversified operation and multi-directional development, and moved towards the goal of a joint-stock group company. Old Memories: "Liu Sanjie", "The Great Military Parade", "Yellow Land", "One and Eight", "Blood Battle Taierzhuang", "Zhou Enlai", "Baise Uprising", "The Story of Qing Shui", "The Story of shouting over the ridge", "The Story of the Sea"
Pearl River Film Studios
It was prepared in 1956 and officially put into production in 1958. In the 1960s and 1970s, Pearl River Film Studio was unique in the Chinese film industry with a large number of Films with Lingnan style, and reached its peak in the early 1980s of reform and opening up, becoming a window for people to understand South China at that time. In 1985, as the first film studio in China to be transformed into an enterprise unit, the new Pearl River Film Production Company closely followed the historical trend of the time, shifted its energy to the creation of the main theme of fine films, and achieved excellent results. In the 20 years before the reorganization of Pearl River Film Group Co., Ltd. in 2006, Zhuying also went through the arduous process of constantly changing itself and seeking a market-oriented development path.
Past Memories: "South China Sea Tide", "Seventy-two Tenants", "Big Waves and Sand", "Spring Rain Xiaoxiao", "Nostalgia", "Xiangyin", "Sun Yat-sen", "Women's Street", "Yamaha Fish Stall", "The Way Home", "Night-Ming"
Xiaoxiang Film Studio
Formerly known as Hunan Film Studio, it was founded in June 1958 and changed to its current name in 1980, located in Changsha, Hunan Province. From the establishment of the factory to 1985, a total of 165 news documentaries, science and education films, stage documentaries (260 copies) and 4 TV series were filmed. Since the filming of the feature film "Ghost" in 1980, a total of 29 feature films have been filmed, of which "Contemporary Man" was praised and rewarded by the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Culture in 1982, and "Alternate Team" won the special award of the 4th Golden Rooster Awards in 1984.
Old Memories: "Ghost", "Alternate Team Member", "Xiangxi Bandit", "That Mountain That Man That Dog", "New Dragon Gate Inn" (Cooperation) "National Anthem"
Emei Film Studio, founded in 1958, is the only comprehensive cultural enterprise in southwest China for film production, and over the past few decades, Emei Film has produced more than 400 films and TV series of various types of films and TELEVISION series. Its first feature film was Jialing Riverside, produced in 1960. The Cultural Revolution caused this factory to stop the production of feature films, and only resumed production in 1976, and this factory has produced such outstanding films as "The Forgotten Corner of Love", "Nei DangJia", "The Girl in Red", "Jiao Yulu", "Defendant Mountain Bar", "Kyoto Ball Man", "Qiao Ran And Escape", and other quite outstanding films, and its new works "Let the Bullets Fly", "Dawusheng", "Guanyin Mountain" and so on have also achieved good results.