Screen Studies & Film History

FILM  HISTORY 

The Associated Press, in partnership with the newsreel archive British Movietone, is releasing over one million minutes of video footage posted to YouTube. It’s a treasure trove of iconic milestones in history and some rarely seen and quirky moments as well. Some of our favorite finds, the eruption of Italy’s famed Mount Vesuvius in 1938, a 1935 elephant race through the streets of Chicago, and a home exercise machine for dogs from 1937.

You can now watch a century of historic newsreels on YouTube

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life Official Trailer

Cinema Papers November 1986

Interview with Jo-anne McGowan: the making of David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

The Experts Series: Korean Film

Pixar’s Tribute to Cinema

Six secrets you didn’t know about The Handmaid’s Tale.  There’s a good chance you may have read it in school but just like many other books over the past few decades, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood has seen a fresh surge in popularity thanks to a TV adaptation of the same name. The show recently cleaned up at the Emmy Awards with 13 nominations and 8 wins.

THE  MOSCOW  ART  THEATRE   –   МХТ им. А. П. Чехова

Stanislavsky in Focus, by Sharon Marie Carnicke brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky’s ‘System’, separating myth from fact with forensic skill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wEdNwERvO0

The Haunted Castle 1896 George Melies Silent Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8

Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902)

Georges Melies – 1898 – Un homme de têtes – The Four Troublesome Heads with the use of Travelling Mattes

Georges Melies – 1898 – La lune à un mètre – One meter to the moon

Life of an American Fireman (1903) – Edwin S. Porter | George S. Fleming | Thomas Edison

Edwin Stanton Porter: The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest-1908- The first D. W. Griffith’s film appearance as actor- Early cinema

Adventures Of Dollie 1908

D.W. Griffith

The Lonely Villa (1909) D.W. Griffith

The Birth of a Nation (1915 film by D.W Griffith)

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America (FULL Audiobook)

Intolerance Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) long version

The History of Cutting – The Soviet Theory of Montage

The Sentimental Bloke 1919

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c

Battleship Potempkin – Odessa Steps scene (Einsenstein 1925)

Battleship Potemkin (1925) – Full Movie; English

October: Ten Days That Shook the World – Sergei M. Eisenstein

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Sunrise – A Song Of Two Humans (1927)

The Invisible Man by H.G.Wells 

Kong climbs The Empire State Building ( King Kong 1933 )

The Last Days Of Pompeii (1935) Movie[HD]

The Thief Of Bagdad 1940

Ten Commandments Part 1 ~ Full Movie

The Old Man and the Sea

The Parent Trap

The Absent-Minded Professor

Mary Poppins

Ben Hur

Scientific and Effects Cinematography: “Behind the Lens” 1940 Chevrolet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uahjH2cspk

The History of Cutting – The Birth of Cinema and Continuity Editing

https://filmmakeriq.com/hollywoods-history-of-faking-it-the-evolution-of-greenscreen-compositing/

Hollywoods History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLFHdagIw6o

12 Best Long Takes in Film History

52 Films by Women

FILM NOIR  (literally ‘black film or cinema’)

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Film Timeline  1878 – 1919

SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN FILM INDUSTRY

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The Australian film industry commenced in 1896 with a newsreel film of the Melbourne Cup. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6LHnMmT4g

Soldiers of the Cross 1900 presented by the Salvation Army comprising of a mixture of slides and film and considered to be the first religious film and first propaganda film ever made for the discussion of ideas and values.

Australian legislation in 1927 provided an Empire Quota for Victorian exhibitors even though this often meant daytime screenings only or screening the films before or after the advertised programmes times. 

The difficulties that the American film contract system of ‘block’ and ‘bind’ booking presented for film producers led to the instigation of a Royal Commission in 1927 by the Australian Government.  This included pressure from the British. 

New South Wales called an Inquiry to investigate the film industry in 1934 principally for the problems of distribution resulting in a New South Wales Quota for Australian films of 5%.  Unable to meet the quota it was amended to 3% and finally phased out completely in 1937.

Restoration: Samantha Lang’s The Well

As part of Sydney Film Festival’s Restoration program, Samantha Lang’s Cannes nominated film, The Well, returns in stunning form. This vivid and vital Australian film, that boasts a strong female cast and crew, offers more than ever 20 years on. Ahead of its screening at the festival we spoke with Samantha Lang.

A Work in Progress: the Rise and Fall of Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives, 1966–86

Sydney Film Maker’s Co-op

Sydney Women’s Film Co-op

  • ‘Maidens’ Jeni Thornily 1978
  • ‘Letters From Poland’ Sophia Turkiewiez
  • ‘Woolloomooloo’ Pat Fish and Denise White
  • ‘Just Me and My Little Girlie‘ Linda Blag
  • ‘We Aim to Please’ Robyn Laurie and Margot Nash
  • ‘Women’s Day 20c ‘ Robyn Murphy, Kaye Martyn, Margot Knox, Virginia Coventry
  • ‘Living Together’ Julie Gibson
  • ‘Film for Discussion’ Martha Ansara, Jeni Thornily
  • ‘Home’ Robyn Murphy, Barbara Levy, Leonie Crennan, Susan Varga
  • ‘Tidikawa and Friends’ Jeff and Su Doring
  • ‘An Industrial Documentary’ Lilias Castle
  • ‘Women Alone’ Lilias Castle
  • ‘Four Women Filmmakers’ Jane Ochr
  • ‘Circuit’ Gill Burnett
  • ‘What’s the Matter Sally?’ Robyn Dryen, Meg Sharp, Daniela Torsh
  • ‘The Moorage Daydreams of Charlene Stardust, Margot Oliver, Jan Milne, Jan Carroll
  • ‘Women’s House’ Anne Roberts, Barbara Alysen
  • ‘She’s My Sister’ Meg Stewart
  • ‘The Golden Cage’ Ayten Kuyululu
  • ‘Seeing Red and Feeling Blue’ Jane Ochr
  • ‘Smoke and Lollies’ Gill Armstrong
  • ‘Making a Living’ Penny Chapman
  • ‘Looking After Ourselves’ Janet Isaacs
  • ‘They Recon a Woman’s World’s Just it and a Bit’ Meg Stewart
  • ‘Secret Storm’ Martha Ansara
  • ‘Paralysis’ Barbara Levy
  • ‘Just Me and My Little Girlie’ Linda Blagg
  • ‘We Aim to Please’ Robyn Laurie, Margot Nash
  • ‘The Selling of the Female Image’ Carole Kostanich
  • ‘Ladies Rooms’ Pat Fiske, Sarah Gibson, Susan Lambert
  • ‘Gentle Birth’ Barbara Chobocky
  • ‘Getting it On’ Gilly Coote
  • ‘Charlene Does Med at Uni’ Margot Oliver
  • ‘All in the Same Boat’ Debbie Kingsland
  • ‘Come On’ Elizabeth McCrae, Joanne Horsburgh

All Titles Produced by Sydney Women’s Film Group

STRIKE ME LUCKY  1934

SMITHY (PACIFIC ADVENTURE)   1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rqxMhziFuw

Aussie Female Feature Filmmakers

These feature films are made by Australian female filmmakers and have been recently released or are coming soon. Support women in film and check out these Aussie titles now at cinemas and online!

  • ALL ABOUT E – writer/director Louise Wadley / producer Jay Rutovitz
  • AMBROSIA – writer/director Rhiannon Bannenberg
  • BEIJING BEING – writer/director/producer Emma Jaay
  • BERLIN SYNDROME – director Cate Shortland / producer Polly Staniford / novel by Melanie Joosten
  • BLUE – writer/directer/producer Karina Holden producers Sarah Beard and Sue Clother
  • CALL ME DAD – writer/director Sophie Wiesner producers Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton.
  • CASTING JONBENET – writer/director/producer Kitty Green
  • CHASING ASYLUM – director/producer Eva Orner
  • CONSTANCE ON THE EDGE – director Belinda Mason / producer Marguerite Grey
  • CRUSHED – writer/director/producer Megan Riakos / producer Sarah Bishop
  • DAMAGED – director/producer Maha Wilson
  • DEFIANT LIVES – writer/director/producer Sarah Barton / producer Liz Burke
  • DESTINATION ARNOLD – writer/director Sascha Ettinger Epstein /
    Producer Michaela Perske
  • DRAMA – writer/director/producer by Sophie Mathisen / producer Dominique Mathisen
  • EMBRACE – writer/director/producer Taryn Brumfitt / producer Anna Vincent
  • FOR NOW – writer/producer Katherine Du Bois / writer/director/producer Hannah Barlow
  • FRISKY – writer/director/producer Claudia Pickering
  • FUN MOM DINNER – director Alethea Jones / writer Julie Rudd / producer Naomi Scott
  • GAYBY BABY – Maya Newell
  • GIRL ASLEEP – director/co-producer Rosemary Myers
  • IN MY OWN WORDS – writer/director Erica Glynn
  • INNER DEMON – writer/director Ursula Dobrowski / producer Sue Brown
  • INNUENDO – writer/director/producer Saara Lamberg
  • JASPER JONES – director Rachel Perkins
  • LOOKING FOR GRACE – writer/director Sue Brooks / producers Lizzette Atkins, Sue Taylor, Alison Tilson
  • LOST GULLY ROAD – writer/director/producer Donna McRae / producer Liz Baulch
  • LOST IN PARIS – writer/director/actor Fiona Gordon / producer Christie Molia
  • MOUNTAIN – writer/director Jennifer Peedom / producer Jo-Anne McGowan
  • PAULINE HANSON: Please Explain! – writer/director Anna Broinowski
  • RIP TIDE – writer Georgia Harrison / director Rhiannon Bannenberg
  • ROLLER DREAMS – writer/director/producer Kate Hickey producers Cecilia Ritchie and Diana Ward
  • SKIN DEEP – writer Monica Zanetti / producer by Rosie Lourde
  • SHERPA – writer/director Jennifer Peedom / producer Bridget Ikin
  • SPOKE – writer/director Em Baker
  • STRANGERLAND – director Kim Farrant / writer  Fiona Seres / producer Naomi Wenck
  • THAT’S NOT ME – writer/actress/producer Alice Foulcher / producers Anna Kojevnikov, Sally Storey
  • THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE – writer/director Ros Horin
  • THE CONNECTION – Shannon Harvey
  • THE DRESS MAKER – writer/director Jocelyn Moorhouse / producer Sue Maslin / novel by Rosalie Ham
  • THE LAST GOLDFISH – writer/director/producer Su Goldfish
  • THE OPPOSITION – director/producer Hollie Fifer / producers Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton
  • THE PINK HOUSE – writer/director Sascha Ettinger Epstein / producer Claire Haywood
  • THE WEATHERMAN’S UMBRELLA – Anne Richey
  • THE WILL TO FLY – writer/director Katie Bender
  • WIDE OPEN SKY –  writer/director/producer Lisa Nicol / producer Anna Craney
  • WHAT IF IT WORKS? – writer/director/producer Romi Trower
  • WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED – director/producer Gillian Armstrong / writer Katherine Thomson

Have you recently released a film and not on the above list?  Email us at info@wiftnsw.org.au to be added to next month’s e-news.

Interesting Film History by Emilano Richards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzFqGEIs_k

Edison’s Black Maria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7laguPTT-Q

The Lumière brothers  ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat’ First silent documentary 1896

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVChRVfZ74

Georges Méliès  ‘A Trip to the Moon’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUU0229MhIo

George Albert Smith ‘A Kiss in the Tunnel’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSKkU9iPxzs

 

George Albert Smith ‘The Sick Kitten’  1903

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-DhskWrDA

Edwin S Porter ‘The Life of an American Fireman’  1903

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-wOu6UNcs

Benjamin Christensen ‘The Mysterious X’ 1914

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUX2w7TFNHQ

Victor Sjöström ‘The Phantom Carriage’ 1921

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_cYhqVblLc

Alice Guy-Blaché ‘Falling Leaves’ 1912

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzXYPJAGkg

D W Griffith ‘Intolerance – Love’s Struggle Through the Ages’ 1916

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtiJH3EOHo

‘The Birth of a Nation’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YurPw4euzM

Robert J Flaherty ‘Nanook of the North’ 1921

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58GMFjwqd4

Abel Gance  ‘La Roue’ 1922

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6jFoYm3xs

F W Murnau ‘Nosferatu’ 1922

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVhZfYl3c0

Raoul Walsh ‘The Thief of Bagdad’ 1924

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECZW9R16EY

Erich von Stroheim ‘Greed’, the last three minutes 1924

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY0h4bbTIJw

King Vidor ‘The Crowd’ 1928

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEjAQb0F8Sk

Carl Theodor Dreyer ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXO7pfoUfvI

Otto Preminger ‘A Royal Scandal’ 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjEPkkoa1dU

Forough Farrokhzad ‘The House is Black’ 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqQeSf24phU

Jorgen Leth ‘The Perfect Human’ 1967

SCREEN  STUDIES

Mise-en-Scène 

Mise-en-Scène translates to ‘placing-in-the-scene’ and being interpreted to cover the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing and that takes place on the set.

The importances of the content when making choices with sets, lights, costume, makeup, props, décor, sound, hair styles, film stock, aspect ratio, performance, aspects of camera and movement to create the mood and ambiance of a film contributes to the range of emotional, subjective, psychological, engrossing and engaging experiences.

It is not only about montage, it is an aspect of cinematic storytelling, narrative information conveyed by building various shots, creating sequences and scenes that are modified to create the film. There is the aesthetics of the shots, the stylistic arranged elements being part of the context that is composed with width, depth, space, time and reality to capture the audience, giving meaning to the film and developing the story.

Mise-en-Scène is about the tools that gives the film life, allowing the viewer to participate in the reality created by the shots and the relationship between the shots.

Bibliography

Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. “Film Art: An Introduction.” In Film Art: An Introduction, Ch 4 118 – 166. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Van Sijll, Jennifer. Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 2005.

Cook, David A. “A History of Narrative Film.” In A History of Narrative Film, pp 49–50, 182, 365–366, 423–24, 456–57, 486, 513–17. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1981.

Colman, Felicity. “Film, Theory and Philosophy the Key Thinkers.” pp 9, 23, 37, 102, 106, 108, 116, 118, 141, 172, 174, 208, 222, 228–9, 230–1, 343, 2009.

Monaco, James. “How To Read A Film – Movies Media and Beyond.” In How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory, pp 193, 205, 461, 456–468. 4th ed., completely rev. and expanded. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

“Wikipedia,” Mise En Scène. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scène>

My Impressions of Two Contrasting Editing Styles

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The editing style in the breakfast montage of ‘Citizen Kane’ shows the rapid, acceleration of the passing of time. This is successfully done with quick edits between Kane and Emily at the breakfast table, contrasted with the image wipes, which successfully moves the story along several years in a few minutes. The editing gives the audience an understanding of the development of each of the characters while compressing real and screen time. The editing style having a strong impact on the narrative.

In contrast there are many long takes in ‘The Shinning’ which strongly contributes to the eerie, unsettling and terrifying emotions created in this horror film.

These prolonged shots leave the audience wondering where is the story going and what is going to happen. There is no quick distraction, the slow editing to the next shot or action creates suspense setting the audience up and building the tension.

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Gallipoli uses long takes such as when Archy and Frank are running through the trenches. This builds atmosphere and tension as the audience follows the character wondering where they are going, how long will it take and what is going to happen.
 

Deconstruct a Shot

 
 
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I have chosen a shot from ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’,  the screen shot has been taken from IMDB’s link to the full length trailer.

Screen shot 2013-05-03 at 7.06.08 PMThe area defined in this shot gives a sense of distance going back to the three soldiers while conflicting the viewer with the flat area cutting across the shot behind the characters. The viewer’s eyes want to go from the Doctor in the front, left to beyond the soldiers, right and the wall stops the eye bringing it coming back to the emotional face of the doctor and the cycle continues without settling.

The hard edged light behind the Doctor’s head and the shape of the light shadow behind the soldiers highlights their position in the environment. There is the strong, vertical building line between them confirming the conflicting relationship and the distance created between them.

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The simple and harsh, vertical and horizontal lines of the building’s structures are part of the emotion created in the scene.  Colour adds to the mise-en-scène, the shades of blue combined with the rain and mud leave a cold and miserable feeling.

‘….a film can manipulate space to communicate information or convey a feeling.”

Dick, Bernard F. “Anatomy of Film.” In Anatomy of Film, p 49, Boston, Mass.: Bedford St. Martins, 2005.

Sound Assisting the Narrative in Film

How Can Sound Assist the Narrative in Film?

The sound in film assists the narrative by shaping the viewers perception of the story and being a subliminal driving focus of the film.

le_fils_de_l_autreIn the opening sequence of ‘The Other Son’ the exchange of music and strong location effects introduces and establishes the mood of the film. The on and off screen paper stamping sounds in the background during the medical examination has an unconscious influences on the atmosphere in this scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYLEcrcFJAc

In the shower scene from “Psycho” the sound makes it impossible for the viewer not to become emotionally involved in the characters actions. The sharp contrast between the musical sounds and the focus on particular sound effects together with the exaggerated film shots work to build the emotional tension.

The sounds which include foley, ambience, effects and music or lack of, give life to the vision and manipulate audiences. This includes telling them how to feel while evoking feelings, creating moods, influencing the pace, making changes in time, establishing locations, drawing attention to details and making connections between characters, places, images and moments to suggest a few.

Basic Structure of a Story

THELMA and LOUISE

ACT ONE – setup, the trip

imagesThe scene is set with the girls preparing to get away for a week-end get away having some freedom away from the routine of their lives. Thelma is married with an abusive husband and Louise is a waitress both bored with their lives, they want change, time away from their tedious lives. Thelmaʼs relationship is not very comfortable and she leaves without letting her husband know and for some reason packs the gun.

They leave and disaster happens when they stop to have some fun at a bar/club on their way. Thelma gets into trouble when a guy she meet at the club gets aggressive in the car park. Louise appears with the gun and shoots Harlam. Now they have to figure out what to do and unknown to them the police have become involved. Louise phones Jimmy for money as they have none and they decide to go on the run.

ACT TWO – confrontation, the runaway

They discuss running away as they figure no one saw them. They have a chance of escaping with the possibility of going to Mexico but not through Texas and need go via Oklahoma to pick up the money.

They pick up DJ after some initial reluctance. Jimmy arrives with the money and proposes to Louise. DJ makes his way back to Thelmaʼs room while Louise and Jimmy are catching up. When Thelma meets up with Louise, Louise realises the money will be gone. When the go and check the money is gone.

This leads to Thelma robbing the store and when the police see the security video they are building up more and more information on what they are doing. The men are wondering about what is going on.

Thelma and Louise phone the boys and work out they know and the police are there. Louise asks to speak to the police and finds out they know about them going to Texas. They are becoming fugitives.

They drive towards Mexico and pass a sexist truck driver who Thelma finally ignores. A policeman pulls them over, possible speeding and Thelma shoots the car radio and puts

the policeman in the boot of the car. Louise calls Hal, the police and they are being charged with murder. They are not giving

up, not making any deals – dead or alive. Their fate has been sealed.

ACT THREE – resolution, the escape

They see the macho truck driver again and ask for an apology, when he does not give it to them they shoot the truck tyres and the truck explodes.

A stoned bicycle rider finds the policeman in the boot of the car and the police helicopters are closing in. There hare lots of police cars chasing them, they are out numbered. They go off the road and temporarily lose them under the bridge and pull up close to the edge of a cliff. The police continue to close in until Thelma and Louise can choose, surrender, fight or keep going. They are not giving up and they drive off the cliff.

Ingredients of a Story

What are the essential ingredients of stories. SCHOOL of ROCK is a

musical comedy, a fell good movie when you leave the cinema and the power of music. Dewey Finn : Protagonist Antagonist : ’ can be a threat of obstacle to the main character’ from Wikipedia I was thinking this could be society represented by the teacher, parents, flat mates/friend

Characters

images-2Dewey : On the surface he is a fraud and ill-equipped to be a teacher. The film shows how his role effects the students and they gain confidence and self-esteem. He is a slob rocker, self-absorbed, passionate and incapable of complying with any authority. Being motivate by the need for money, only knowing rock he is not concerned about the interest of the kids. Later it unfolds that he cares for the kids or does he? Is he only interested in rock success thus manipulating his students to follow his interests.

All the kids are includes and if they are not happy with their roll he works it out eg Summers from groupie to manager, Billy from security to band stylist. Tomika from security to singer and Dewey shares his eating habits with her also supports her when she lacks confidence before the concert.

Ms Mullins : the uptight principal Repressed school kids

Summers : determined to please and succeed

Zac : shy with large and overbearing father and uses music to show him other responses ‘step off’

Freddy : rebel, troublemaker drummer and provides the vehicle for Dewey to prove that he cares for the kids

Lawrence : keyboardist, transformed to a rockin’ keyboardist

Tomika : body issues. Does not want to be a security detail or roadie and is a singer. Also needs support before the concert.

Billy : security to band stylists Gordon : roadie to computer lighting the show

Confilct

images-1Is shown from the social side between conservative and band lifestyles. And in the characters by not fitting in, not succeeding in the traditional ways and society expectations. to the desire to succeed in socially acceptable ways and how the story unfold between the two. Dewey goes from being only interested in himself to being concerned about the kids.Including them all in the project to changing their roles, protecting Freddy, playing the kids song at the concert. The kids and his friend change as well as the principle and the parents at the end.

Resolution

With the success of the band and the development of the relationship between Dewey and the kids the parents and principle see the value and talents of the children and there is room for it all.

The children find themselves and what they can do. Dewey finds success and his place in the world.

Ethics

Paying your way, socially acceptable behavior, body issue of being fat, bullying.

World (rules)

Dewey is scruffily dressed and slept in a mess on the sofa, the school environment is neat and tidy, Dewey takes the principle to his pub for coffee and she is uncomfortable, Freddy rolled up his shirt sleeves.

Theme

almost famous, rebellious attitude, norms and deviance, piety and blasphemy, right and wrong.

Environment

fictional school

Beginning : Dewey is a slob rocker who is self-absorbed, problems with authority and not capable of taking responsibility. He is at the end of the line.

Middle : He finds a job teaching kids continuing in his devious ways. He finds out the kids have musical talent and they form a bond. Dewey and the kids learn from each other and their journey makes this part of the story.

End : Dewey gets exposed when the paycheck arrives for Ned. Following this the he is asked questions at the parents evening about what has been going on. His real identity is revealed and he is fired from the school. The next morning the kids come looking for him and push him and they all head to the ‘Battle of the Bands’. The principal and parents realise the kids are missing, head to the concert and their outrage changes to support.

Genre and Tone in Korean Films | KOFFIA 2021

INTERESTING HISTORIC FILMS

A Three-Man Collision (Sannin otoko no shototsu)

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) 1902

All Quiet on the Western Front1930

Arrival of a Train (Arrivée  due train à La Ciotat) 1985

Ball of Fire (1942) Howard Hawks  into  A Song Is Born (1948) Hawks

Bend of the River

Blue Angel, The 1931  German Joseph von Sternberg 

Clear Skies Avenge (Tenhare adauchi) 

Dishounered 1931

Fire-Bug, The 1905

Great Train Robbery, The 1903

Hero of Liao Yang, The 

In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Jack and the Beanstalk  1902

Jazz Singer, The

Judge Priest (1934) into The Sun Shines Bright (1953) John Ford

L’Amour 1933

La petite Lise 1930

La Strada 1954 Fellini

La Vie de Moise

Lady in the Lake  1946

Lady and the Gent, The 1932

Law of the Newly Invented 20th-Century Puck (Niju seiki shinhatsumei pukku o hakurai kuinige no ho)

Lonsdale Operator, The    D. W. Griffith 1911

Love Parade, The

Man from Laramie, The

Man’s Castle 1933

Marriage Circle (1924)  Lubitsch

Man Who Knew Too Much, The  (1934, 1956) Hitchcock

Morocco 1931

Morphology of the Folk Tale 

Mythologiques

Napoleonic Epic, The (L’Epopée napoleonienne)

Passion Play   Pathé

Quatorze juillet 1932

Ride Lonesome

Sous les toits de Paris 1930

Seventh Seal, The 1956  Bergman

Seven Men from Now

Tall T, The

Three Bad Men (1926) reworked into Three Godfathers 1926)

True State of Parisian Coeds’ Depravity, The (Danjo gakusei  daraku no shinso)

Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) 1930

Winchester ’73

Zigomar 1911

INDIAN CINEMA

ARDESHIR IRANI  The Father of India’s Cinema and Talkies 

‘Raja Harishchandra’, India’s first feature film screened in Mumbai, 1913 during the silent era spanning about two decades, including hidden instrument players and a narrator.  

Hollywood talkies were already being screened in India for the Britishers, Indian elite and educated urbanites. 

The Imperial Film Company won the day releasing India’s first Hindustani talkie feature film, ‘Alam Ara’ (Light of the World) at Mumbai’s Majestic Cinema, 14th March, 1931 becoming the first film where actors naturally spoke their lines instead of using dialogue cards.  Produced by Ardeshir Irani, the father of Indian talkies. 

The second talkie released was Krishna film Company’s ‘Ghar Ki Lakshmi’ and the third Madan Theaters’ ‘Shirin farbad’ with Imperial’s second talkie, ‘Daulat Ka Nasha’.  

Ardeshir Irani made India’s first talkie in English ‘Noorjahan’ 1932 and India’s first Persian film ‘Dukutar-e-Noor’ 1933 calling musicians from Iran.  Following this Irani made two more films in the same language ‘Firdousi’ and ‘Shirin Farbad’.  

India’s first colour laboratory was set up by Irani and he produced India’s first colour picture ‘Kisan Kanya’ 1937 becoming the grand old man of Indian cinema and the father of the Indian talkie. 

‘Krishna Janam’ 1918

Kaliya Mardan (The Childhood of Krishna) 1919

‘Veer Abbimanya’ 1922

‘Madhuri’ 1928

Mother India   1957

Dosti   1964

Umrao Jaan 1981

Dil Chahta Hai   2001

Lagaan:  Once Upon a Time in India  2001

Mr and Mrs Iyer  2002

Chokher Bali  2003

Pinjar   2003

Maqbool 2003

Swades    2004

Black  2005

Maine Gandhi Ko Nahon Mara (I Did Not Kill Gandhi)  2005

Mangal Pandey  2005

Dor  2006

Utthaan  2006

Chakde India   2007

Guru  2007

Taare Zameen Par  (Like Stars on Earth)  2007

Jadhaa Akbar   2008

JAPANESE THEATRE

Nolletti, A., Desser, D. (Eds.), 1992. Reframing Japanese cinema: authorship, genre, history. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Spoken Silents in the Japanese Cinema; or, Talking to Pictures: Essaying the Katsuben, Contexturalizing the Texts   J. L. Anderson

Utsushie

http://www.f.waseda.jp/kusahara/Utsushi-e/What_Is_Utsushi-e.html

Bunraku  – puppet theatre

Kamishibai

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JAPANESE RADIO

Airplane Drone (Bakuon) 1939

Danger (Tanko no naka)  1925

Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii) 1936

SELECTION of SOME JAPANESE FILMS and SERIES

SOME REMAKES

A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari) 1934 as Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) 1959

I was Born but … (Umarete wa mita keredo…(1932) into Ohayo (1959)

Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) Two versions 1956 and 1983

Samurai Trilogy (Musashi Miryamoto) two versions 1940 and 1954-56

The Life of Matsu the Untamed (Muho Matsu no issue) 1943 retelling Rickshaw Man 1958

A Cat, Shozo and Two Women (Neko to shozo tofutari o onna) 1956

A Charred Water Lizard (Imori no kuroyaki) 1908

A Crazy Page/A Page Out of Order (Kurutta ippeiji)  1926

A Grievance about Public Morality (Kotoku no nakigoto) 

A Group of Japanese Men Swimming (Danseito no suiei)

A Maroon Wooden Drum (Ebicha no mokugyō)

A River Fête at Ryōgoku (Tōkyo Ryōgoku no kawabiraki) 1905

A Story of Floating Weeds ( Ukigusa monogatari) 1934

A Story ofJapanese Yakuza (Nihon Kyokakuden) 1964-71 series 

A Taxing Woman (Marusa no gonna) 1987

A Taxing Woman Part 2 (Marusa no gonna 2) 1988

A Tipsy Life (Horoyoi jinsei) 1933

A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Song (Nihon shunka-ko) 1967

A View of Nikko (Mikko no kokei) 1905

A Woman Aviator (Onna hikoka) 1913

Abe Clan, The (Abe Ichizoku) 1938

Actual Scene of the Asakusa Flower Garden, The (Asakusa hanayashiki jikkyō) 1903

Actual Scene of the Fifth Osaka Exhibition, The (Osaka daigokai hakurankai jikkyō) 1903

Actual Scene of the Kyoto Gion Festival, The (Kyōto gion matsuri jikkyō) 1903

Actual Scene of the Kobe Naval Review, The (Kobe kankanshiki jikkyō)  1903

Adventures of Jirocho (Jirocho sangokushi) 1952-54  nine part series

Adventures of Jirocho (Jirocho sangoku-shi) 1963-4

Age of Assassins (Satsujinkyo jidai) 1965

Age of Irresponsibility in Japan (Nippon musekinin jidai) 1962

(Akanishi Kakita) 1936

Amateur Club (Amachua kurabu) 1920

Amended Record of Japanese Zigomar, The (Zoku Nippon Jigoma kaishin-roku) 1912

An Actor’s Revenge (Yukinojo henge) 1935

An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no avi) 1962

An Inn at Osaka (Osaka no ado)  1954

Apart from You (Kimito wakarete) 1933

Art of Shinto-Style Sword Drama (Shintō-ryū kenbujutsu sugekimi) 1908

Bad Sleep Well, The (Warui eats modo you nemuru) 1969

Band of Ninja (Ninja bugeicho) 1967

Bandits on the Wind (Yato gaze no nana o hashiru) 1961

Battered Energy of Desire, The (Oshima Nagisa)

Battle of Honno Temple, The (Honnoji gassed) 1909

Bell Forest (Suzu ga modi) 

Benkei of the Bridge (Hashi Benkei) 

Between War and Peace (Senso to heir) 1947

Blood Is Dry, The (Chi wa kawaite ire) 1960?

Boy (Shonen) 1969

Bride Talks in Her Sleep (Hanayome no negoto) 1933

Brothers and Sisters of the Today Family, The ( Todake no kyodai) 1941

Burden of Live (Jinsei no onimotsu) 1935

Burglar on the Roof

Bushido—Samurai Saga (Bushido zankoku monogatari) 1963

Captain’s Daughter, The (Tai-i no musume) 1929

Carmen’s Pure Love (Karumen junuosu) 1952

Catch, The (Shiiku)  1962

Ceremony, The `Ceremonies, The (Gishiki) 1971

Children—The Precious Disturbance (Kodakara modo) 1935

Christian Rebel, The (Amakusa Shiro tokisada) 1962

Chuji’s Travel Diary (Chuji tab nikki) 1927

(Kunisada Chuji) 1935

Chug Makes a Name for Himself (Chuji uridasu) 1935

Chūshingura 1932

Climactic Operation, The (Kojo sakusen) 1974

Code of an Outlaw, The (Yatamono no okite) 1969

Combat without a Code (Jingi maki tatami) 1972-74  series

Common Soldier’s Story, The  –  series

Crest of the Man, The ( Otoko no monsho) 1963-66

Cruel Story of Youth or Naked Youth for export (Seishun zankoku monogatari)  1960

Cuckoo-New Form, The (Shin hototogisu) 1909

Daimyō Saburo-maru 1914

Dancing Girl of Azu (Izu no odoriko) 1933

Dandyish Procession (Haikara no gyōretsu)

Dawn (Reimei) 1927

Dawn at the Soga Brothers’ Hunting Grounds (Soga kyōdai karma no akebono) 1906

Days of Youth (Wakaki hi) 1929  

Death by Hanging (Koshikei) 1968

Dear Summer Sister (Natsu no imoto) 1973

Demon Thistle 1908

Diary of Yunbogi (Yunbogi no nikki)  1965

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief ( Shinjuku dorobo nikki) 1968

Dispersing Clouds (Wakare-gumo) 1951

Dodeskaden 1970

Dr Kimuyo (Joi Kinuyo sensei) 1937

Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna) 1933

Drinking Habit and the Family, The (Inshu to katei)

Drunken Angel (Yoidore tench) 1948

Early Summer (Bakushu) 1956

Education of Old Ideas, The (Kyu-shiso no kyōiku) 

Empire of Passion, Ghost of Love, The Realm of Desire  (Ai no borei) 1978

End of Summer, The (Koharyakawake no aki) 1961

End of the role of the Schoolgirl, The (Jinshin no ura-omote)

Enoken’s Kondo Isamu (Enoken no Kondo Isamu) 1935

Equinox Flower (Higanbana) 1958

Fallen Blossoms (Hana chorine) 1938

Faithful Servant Naosuke (Chuboku Naosuke) 1936

Failure of Overconfidence (Unubore no shippai)

Family Games (Kazoku geimu) 1983

Feather Cloak Dance of Miss Tenkatsu, The (Tenkatsujo no hagoromai) 1906

Fifth Scene of the Loyal Forty-Seven Retainers, The (Chūshingura godanme)

Fighting Soldier(Tataku hentai) 1940

Fires on the Plain (Nobi) 1959

First Steps Ashore (Joriku dai-ippo) 1932

Five Scouts ( Gonin no sekkohei) 1938

Floating Nest of the Little Grebe, The (Nio no Ukisu) 1900

Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari)  1934 and 1959

Floating Weeds 1959

Flower of Green Tea over Rice, The (Ochazuke no avi) 1952

Funeral, The (Ososhiki) 1984

Gate of Hell 1953

Genroku Dance of the Yoshimachi Dancers, The (Yoshimachi geigi genroku odori) 1905

Ghost Mirror (Yūrei kagami) 1908

Girl Students’ Military Arts (Jogakusei no bugeitaiso) 

Good Morning (Ohayo) 1959

Grand Motion Picture on the Boxer Rebellion (Hokushinjihen katsudō daishashin) 1900

Great Metropolis: Chapter on Labor, The (rodehen) 1930

Green of the Pine, The (Matsu no midori) 1911

Groom Talks in His Sleep, The 1935

Growing Up (Takekurabe) 1955

Harakiri (Seppuku) 1962

Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) 1956 and 1983

Hen in the Wind (Kaze no nana no mender) 1948

Hidden Fortress, The (Kakushi torrid no san akunin) 1945

High and Low (Tengoku to jig) 1963

History of Japanese Film Music (Nihon eiga ongaku shi)

Hitokiri (Tenchu) 1969

Hometown (Furusato)1930

Hoodlum Soldier (Heitai yakuza) 1965

Hosokawa Covered with Blood (Hosokawa no chidaruma)

Human Condition, The (Ningen no joke) 1958 – 1961

Humanity and Paper Balloon (Ninjo kamifusen) 1937

I was Born but…. (Umarete wa mita keredo…)  1932

If We Don’t Abandon This Child (Kono ko sutezareba) 1935

Ikiru (1952)

In the Realm of the Sense (Aino koriida)  1976

Intention of Murder (Akai satsui) 1964

It’s Tough to Be a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) series 

Japanese Don, The (Nihon no don) 1981

Japanese Cherry Blossoms (Nihon sakura) 1909

Japanese-Made Social Puck Moving Picture (Nippon-sei shake pukku katsudō shashin)

Japanese Summer:  Double Suicide (Muri shinju nibon no borei)  1967

Japanese Zigomar (Nippon Jigoma) 1910

Jirocho and Mt Fuji ( Jirocho Fuji) 1959

(Kaketoji Tokijiro) 1929

Katsuben Story, The 1957

(Kavita Akanishi) 1936

Komatsu Riyuzo Part ll 1939

Koume of Kanaya (Kanaya Koume) 1930

Kumagai Fan Store, The (Ogiya Kumagai) 1908

Lady and the Beard, The (Shukujo to hide)

Largest Gambling Den in the Postwar Period, The (Sengo said no toba) 1969

Late Autumn (Akibiyori) 1960

Late Spring (Banshun) 1949

L’Amour (Ramura, aka Aibu) 1933

Lightening Burglar (Inazuma goto)

Life of Matsu the Untamed, the (Kuho Matsu no issue) 1943

Life Story of Saint Nichiren, The (Seishō Nichiren Daishi gochidai-ki) 1910

Lilly of the Valley (Tsuruganeso) 1935

Little Man, Do Your Best (Koshiben gambler) 1931

Live of Oharu, The (Saikaku ichidai onna)  1952

Lonely Roughnech, The (Subishiki Ranbomono) 1927

Long-Sought Mother aka Mother He Never Knew, The (Mabuta no haha) 1931

Lottery Jackpot (Senryoraku) 1935

Lower Depths, The (Donzoko) 1957

Loyal Forty-Seven (Chūshingura) 1962  (Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers)

Man Who Left His Will on Film (Tokyo senso hiwa) literally Secret Story of Postwar Tokyo aka He Died after the War 1970

Marching On (Shingun) 1930

Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The (Tora no o fumo otokotachi)  1945

Mito Komon Part II 1932

(Minamoto Musashi) 1962-1970

Modern Yakuza, The (Gendai yakuza) 1969-71

Modern hash 1929

Morning for the Osone Family (Osoneke no asa) 1946

Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku) 1944

Mother (Haha) 1929

Mr Pu (Pu-san) 1953

Mud and Soldiers (Tsuchi to heitai) 1939

Munekata Sisters (Munekata shimmy) 1950

National Boarding House (Kokuyu no Geshukuya)

Neighbour’s Wife and Mine, The (Madamu to nyobo)  1931

New Great Detective Zigomar (Shin Jigoma Dai-tantei) 1912

New Katsura River (Shinkatsura gala) 1909

Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no your to kiri)  1960

Nights.s Wife, The 1930

Nightly Dreams (Yogoto no yum) 1933

Nightly Dreams, Apart from You 

Ohara (aka Good Mroning )  Ohio (1959)

Once More (Ima hitotabino) 1947

One Night’s Lodging (Isshoku ichiham) 1968

One Thousand and One Nights of Travelling (Matatabi senichiya) 1936

Only Son, The (Hitori musk) 1936

One’s Sin (One ga tsumi)

Orochi 1925

Oryu (Hibotan Oryu) 1968

Oryu’s Visit (Oryu sanjo) 1970

Osaka Elegy 1936

Otomi Stabbed 1908

Our Neighbour Miss Yae (Tonari no Yae-chan) 1934

Pastoral Symphony (Den’en kokyogaku) 1938

Pleasures of Flesh (Etsuraku) 1965

Pheasant in a Burnt Field (Yakino no kigisu) 1909

Police 1933

Prison Breakout in Saghalien, The (Karafuto no hagoku)

Quiet Duel, The ( Shizukanaru kept)  1946

Red Beard (Akahige) 1965

Rashomon (1950)

Red Beard (Akahige) 1965

Record of a Living Being (Ikimono no kiroku)  1955

Record of a Tenement Gentleman 1947

Respect for the Emperor (Sonno jodi) 1928

Rickshaw Man (1958)

Riding on a Ball in Real Society (Katsu-shakai no tamanori)

Samurai Rebellion (Joiuchi) 1967

Samurai Trilogy (Jusashi Minamoto)  1940 and 1954-56

Sanshiro Sugata 1943

Scarlet Bat, The ( Beni komori) 1931

Scene of Minamoto Musashi’s Elimination of the Baboons, The (Miyamoto Musashi hihi taiga no ba) 1908 

Second-Rate Comedian aka Something like That (No yo na mono) 1981

Semi-Japanese Semi-Western Wedding (Wayō sechū kekkonshiki) 1908

Seppuku (Hara-diri) 1962

Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) 1954

Shadow Figure (Kageboshi) 1909

Shanghai 1932

Sky is Clear ( Sora wa haretari) 1925

Song of the Flower Basket (Hanakago no ute) 1937

Spring in Southern Islands (Nanto no haru) 1925

Steel Edge of Revenge, The (Goyokin) 1969

Stone Bridge (Shakkyō)

Story of the Last Yakuza in the Showa Period, The (Showa zankyoden) 1965-72

Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi (Nishizumi sensacho-den) 1940

Stray Dog (Nora ini) 1949

Street without End (Kagirinaki hodo) 1934

Succeeding the Second (Nidaime shame) 1968

Surface and True Feelings of People’s Minds, The (Jinshin no ura-omote)

Sword of Vengeance series

Successful Love, The (Ai no seikō)

Sumo Wrestler’s Debut (Ippon batata dohyoiri) 1931

Sun Legend of the Shogunate’s Last Days 

Tale of the Loyal Forty-Seven Retainers, The  (Chūshinguara)

Tampopo 1986

Tange Sazen 1933

Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Tange Sazen—hyakuman ryo no tsubo)  1935

Tattoo of a Lion, The (Karajishi shugi) 1965

Ten Dark Women (Kuroi junior no gonna) 1961

Tenth Scene of Taikoki, The also known as Ehon Taikoki (Taikoki jūdanme) 1908

Theatre of Life, The (Jinsei gekijo—Hishakaku) 1963

There was a Father (Chichi arise) 1942

Three Beauties (San rem ka) 1934

Throne of Blood (Kagemusha) 1980

Three Outlaw Samurai (Sambiki no samurai) 1964

Three Resurrected Drunkards (Kaette kits yopparai) 1968

To Sleep So As To Dream 1986

To The Distant Observer 1979

Tokyo Chorus (Tokyo no gassho) 1931

Tokyo Snowscape (Tōkyō no sekkei) 1905

Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo boshoku) 1957

Tough Guys behind Bars (Kabe no nana no korinai mermen) 1987

Tragedy:  The Self-Immolation of the Captain (Higeki: sancho no junshi) 

Trial of Vivienne Ware, The 1932

True Account of the Ando Group, The (Andagumi jitsuroku) 1978-79

True Character of Gentlemen Nowadays, The (Tosei shins hi no shotai)

Tsubaki Sanjuro (Sanjuro) 1962    –    Sanjuro (Tsubak Sanjuro) 1962

Twenty-Six Japanese Martyrs, The 1930

Two People at Dojō Temple (Ninin dojōji)

Ugetsu (Ugetsu mongatari) 1953

Ugetsu Monogatari 1953

Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves (Momijigari)

Village Bride, The (Mura no hanayome)  1928

Violence at Noon (Hakuchu no troika)  1967

Wanderers (Matatabi) 1973

War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, The (Hawaii-Marei ski kaiser) 1942

Well-Mannered Beasts, The aka Elegant Beast (Shitoyaka na kedamono) 1962

What did the Lady Forget (Shujo wa nani o waster-tala) 1937

Where Chimneys Are Seen (Entotsu no mire basho) 1953

Wife Be like a Rose (Tsuma yo bra no yo ni) 1935

Woman of the Mist (Oboroyo no gonna) 1936

Woman of Tokyo (Tokyo no gonna) 1933

Woman Samurai 1908

Woman Who Touched the Leg (Ashi ni sonata gonna) 1926

Wonderful Men in the World of Yakuza (Yakuza those no suteki na mermen) 1988

Yakuza Front on the Tokaido Path (Ninkyo Tokaido) 1958 

Yakuza on the Road (Matatabi waraji) 1929

Yataro’s Travel Hat (Yataro gasa) 1932

(Yojimbo) 1961

Young Days of Jirocho (Wakaki hi no Jirocho) 1960-62

CHINESE  FILMS – Films to 1991

1931 first Chinese talkie was released

A bible for Daughters

A Spring River Flows East

Along the Sungari River

Army Nurse (1986)

At Middle Age

Before the New Director Arrives  1956

Bitter Love (or Sun and the Moon, The) ( 1981)

Black Cannon Incident, The

City of Sadness

Come On China

Crows and Sparrows

Diary of Returning Home

Dr Norman Bethune  (Bethune: The Making of a Hero?)

Early Spring (and Serfs)

Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon

Elder Sister

Evening Rain  (1980)

Far From War

Fascinating Musical Band

First Sino-Japanese War, The

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Girl from Hunan

Heading For Home

Hibiscus Town (1987)

Horse Thief (1986)

In-Laws, The (1981)

Intimate Friends

In the Wild Mountains

Kids Canteen

King of the Children

Last Sun, The

Last Day of Winter, The

Leg End of Titanium Mountain, The

Legend of Tianyun Mountain, The (1980)

Li Shuangshuang (1962)

Life (1984)

Life of Mine, The  (1950)

Life of Wu Xun 1951?

Life and Old Well

Lin Family Shop, The (1959)

Lonely Murderer, The

Lower Depths, The

Love and Inheritance 

Loyal Partners (1957)

Make Believe Couple, The

Man Unconcerned with Details, The 

Marine

Me and My Class Mates

Missing Girl Student, The

Moon Reflected on Second Spring (1979)

My Memories of Old Beijing

Jia wu feng yun (AKA The Naval Battle of 1894) (1962) (English Subtitles)

New Doctor, The (1975)

New Year’s Sacrifice  (1956)

Night Lodging

Number Thirteen Haunted Residence

Old Well, The

On the Docks (1972)

On a Small Street

On the Hunting Ground

One and Eight (1984)

Opium War, The

Our Demobbed Soldier

Our Tabby

Out On Parole

Popular Film

President Extraordinary

Red Sorghum

Red Detachment of Women, The (1960)

Regret for the Past

Reverberations of a Life

River Without Buoys

Romance on Lushabn Mountain (1980)

Sacrificed Youth

Savage Land (1981) 

Season for Love, The

Secret Decree

Spring in a Small Town 小城之春 1948

Stage Sisters (1965)

Spring River Flows East 一江春水向東流 (1947) part 1 with English subtitles

Song at Midnight 夜半歌聲 (1937) with English subtitles

Soul of a Nation, The

Stars are Bright Tonight, The

Sungari river

Superstar

Swan Song

T Province

Taking tiger Mountain by Strategy

Third Sister Liu

Trapped on a Frozen River

Travelling Players

Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman, The

True Story of Ah Q, The 

Twins Come in Pairs (1979)

Unfinished Comedy, The (1957)

University in Exile

Wild Torrents

Yellow Earth (Huang Tudi) (1984)

Youth (1977)

Zhenzhen’s Beauty Parlour 

OTHER

BBC Soul of a Nation : The Royal Family of Thailand (1979)

CHINESE ANIMATION

Beautiful Cigarette Girl, The

Camel Dance, The (1935)

Catch the Turtle in a Jar (1948)

Citizen (1932)

Conceited General, The (1956)

Democratic North-East, The

Dream of the Emperor, The (1947)

Father of Miss Lu, The

Fisher Boy, The (1959)

Flute and Cowherd, The (1963)

Golden Conch, The (1963)

Hunger of the Old, Stupid Dog

Intelligent Little Darling, The (1960)

Journey to the West

Little Heroes, The

Magic Paintbursh, The (1955)

Monkey King

Motherland is Saved by Aviation

Painful Story of the Nation, The

Posters of Anti-Japanese War, The

Price of Blood, The (1930)

Princess Iron Fan  (1941)

Rebellion of the Paper Man, The

River is Red with Blood, The

Scenes of Urban Life

Smiling Monkey, The 

Songs of Anti-Japanese War

Spring of Ginseng, The (1962)

Turmoil in a Workshop (1927)

Typewriter for Chinese

Uproar in Heaven  (1964)

Wake Up (1972)

Where is Mama? (1960)

World of Insects, The

Year of Chinese Goods, The

Zhou Bajie East Watermelon (1958)

HONG KONG FILMS

A Chinese Ghost Story

A Hearty Response

Aces Go Places (III)

An Autumn Fairytale

Brothers

City of Fire

Dan Quan Cun Pian

Eastern Condors

Easy Money

Fifty Years of Sunrise and Sunset

Flaming Brothers

Home from the Hill

Imitation of Life

Killing Fields, The

Lady in Black

Legend of Wisely, The  (1987)

Long Arm of the Law:  ll

Modern Security Guard

Paragon

Project A:11

Road Warriors

Rogue

Story of Hay Bo, The

Underworld Friendship

Written in the Wind

Yingxiong Pian

TAIWANESE  FILMS

After Midnight

Aunty Chin-Shui

Daughter of the Nile

Flag is Flying, The

Growing Up

Legend of Dr Sun Yatsen, The

Love is Grown With Flowers

Missing People

My Father is Not a Thief 

Split of the Spirit, The

Strawman

We Went to See the Snow that Year

White Teeth and Black Skin

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