| Dingjun Mountain | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 定軍山 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 定军山 | ||||||
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| Directed by | Ren Qingtai | ||||||
| Starring | Tan Xinpei | ||||||
| Cinematography | Liu Zhonglun | ||||||
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| Country | China | ||||||
| Language | Mandarin | ||||||
Dingjun Mountain was a 1905 Chinese silent film directed by Ren Qingtai (任慶泰) a.k.a. Ren Jingfeng (任景豐), who was assisted by his cinematographer Liu Zhonglun (劉仲伦). This film, made by Beijing's Fengtai Photography (豐泰照相館),[1] constitutes the first Chinese film ever made.[2]
The film consisted of a recording of Peking opera superstar Tan Xinpei dressed in the character Huang Zhong and singing some arias from the Peking opera of the same name. The play is a dramatised account of Battle of Mount Dingjun (219 AD) and based on an episode in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The only print was destroyed in a fire in the late 1940s.[citation needed]
- ^ Hu, Jubin (2003). Projecting a nation: Chinese national cinema before 1949, Hong Kong University Press, p 39.
- ^ Zhang, Yingjin & Xiao, Zhiwei (1998). "The Fifth Generation" in Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. Taylor & Francis, p. 128. ISBN 0-415-15168-6.