ASIA FILM COMPANY… (In the Entertainment industry. The Asia Film Company was the first film production company in China.)

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ASIA FILM COMPANY… (In the Entertainment industry. The Asia Film Company was the first film production company in China.)

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Asia Film Company

History

The Asia Film Company was the first film production company in China. The Asia Film Company was established in Shanghai in 1909 by American businessman Benjamin Brosky, and was the first company to produce dramatic films in China. They were all short films, which were the fashion at the time. The studio made four films in 1909 in Shanghai and Hong Kong, the only surviving one being Stealing the Roast Duck, shot in Hong Kong.

Brosky left Shanghai in 1912 and sold his assets to two other Americans, Yashell and Suffert. They continued the work of the Company, collaborating with the Xinmin theatre company, led by Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhang Shichuan. The company was dissolved in 1914, when the First World War created a shortage of film stock. Brosky went on to co-found, with Li Minwei, Hong Kong's first film studio, Huamei (Chinese-American), in 1913, which made a single film, Zhuangzi Tests His Wife.

The cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.

Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first Chinese film, The Battle of Dingjunshan, was made in 1905, with the film industry being centered on Shanghai in the first decades. The first sound film, Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, using the sound-on-disc technology, was made in 1931.

Films

The company's productions mainly consisted of actualities and comedy shorts. It produced The Difficult Couple in 1913, the first feature-length film in the history of China, which was about arranged marriage. This was directed by Zheng Zhengqiu and written by Zhang Shichuan.

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