『효녀 심청전』을 통해 살펴본 초창기 무성영화의 시나리오에 관한 연구

Abstract

Hyoneo Simchongjeon(孝女沈淸傳) is an old printed scenario published by Park Seung Pil who was the owner of Dansungsa theater in 1925. At the time, Dansungsa gave up screening of Hyoneo Simchongjeon since Yoon Baek Nam Production produced the film of Simchongjeon earlier and only the scenario left today. So far, the silent movies at the initial stage derived from classical novels have been discussed in the advanced research that they are shot underlying old printed novels without any scenarios. However, this is an error caused by mistranslating the testimony of elder movie people in the early silent film days. On the basis of this error, Hyoneo Simchongjeon has not acquired proper evaluation. This work has originated in the old printed novel Gang Sang Ryeon(江上蓮), this can be proved by contrasting several picture element. Nevertheless, it is not true that Hyoneo Simchongjeon fully copied Gang Sang Ryeon. It omitted some episodes of original if needed, and changed the order of arrangement of each pixel. This adapting sense eventually sought more ‘cinematic story.’ The form of Hyoneo Simchongjeon was influenced by that of scenarios of Japanese silent films, but it has ‘auxiliary subtitles,’ which is its own distinctive feature against Japanese Scenarios in the certain circumstance where the author of this work was a silent-film narrator and an actor at the same time. The revaluation of Hyoneo Simchongjeon should be conducted as a material that presents the reasons of the public culture and film history in the 1920s. A series of films originated from old novels have to be a standard point so as to correct the film history of Joseon that has distorted in many ways.