1960년대 초 한국 뉴스영화와 문화영화에 관한 연구 (1961~1963) －국립영화제작소를 중심으로－

Abstract

In this paper, I set out to explore the emergence of newsreels and cultural films produced by the National Film Production Center in the early 1960s. Between 1961 and 1963 when modern Korean society was going through political and social turmoil, the military government saw film as a way to grasp reality through legitimizing their power and securing the agreement of the people through the medium of public screenings. The National Film Production Center was established on June 22, 1962 just behind ‘5․16’. The National Film Production Center produced mainly <Korea News((Daehan News) newsreels and cultural films(Munhwa Yeonghwa) in the early sixties, which, in part, was due to the fact that the screening of cultural films were mandatory, because this was part of a film law which was enacted and proclaimed on January 20, 1962. Newsreels and cultural films were shown along commercial feature films in the cinema, and while the National Film Production Center wasn’t necessarily very popular, <Korea News> was highly influential. During this period <Korea News> and cultural films were shown by their respective government-and-the-public posts through various systems all over the country, and the producing and screening system for those films was successfully maintained throughout the Park Chung-hee regime.