중국 최초의 영화 <딩쥔산> 제작 연도에 관한 논쟁 연구

Abstract

For a long time, the Chinese film industry has identified the film Dingjun Mountain as the beginning of Chinese movies. However, due to the incomplete early information on this history and the lost of film about Dingjun Mountain being destroyed by fire, no relevant video materials or traces are left. Thus, whether Dingjun Mountain is the first film in the history of Chinese cinema becomes a controversial topic. This thesis focuses on the debate in the Chinese film industry over the birth of Chinese movies, mainly studying and discussing the historical debate over the birth of China’s first film and major questions. Firstly, the information of beginning of debate over the birth of Chinese movies is organized based on the prior research and historical sources. The focus is on the reasons why the Chinese film industry questioned the birth of the first Chinese film and a detailed discussion of the questioning issues in the debate and the current state of prior research. Secondly, the main key issues in the debate and the major arguments of the doubts are organized and identified. Through re-reading and detailed study of historical materials, some of the issues and doubts are more clearly understood and perceived. But some of the doubts and problems remain unclear without solid evidence, and so there is still a need to find clear evidence to identify them. Lastly, the birth date of China’s first film, Dingjun Mountain is re-examined. Based on the vast amount of oral history evidence and prior research materials, it is possible to say that Dingjun Mountain was filmed in 1905. Therefore, after a specific analysis and study of a large number of existing oral historical data and current leading research data, it is found that although there are still some problems, a firm conclusion can not be reached at present. However, in fact, from the existing materials, we can find that the film Dingjun Mountain has the possibility of existence.