Laborer's Love
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| Laborer's Love (aka Romance of a Fruit Peddler) |
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| Directed by | Zhang Shichuan |
| Produced by | Mingxing Film Company |
| Written by | Zheng Zhengqiu |
| Starring | Zheng Zhegu Zheng Zhengqiu Yu Ying |
| Distributed by | Mingxing Film Company |
| Release date(s) | 1922 |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Language | Silent film Written Chinese and English intertitles |
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Laborer's Love (Chinese: 劳工之爱情; pinyin: Laogong zhi aiqing) is a 1922 short film produced in China. It is also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler (Chinese: 掷果缘; pinyin: Zhi guo yuan). It constitutes the earliest complete film from China's early cinematic history that survives today.[1] The film was also one of the earliest productions of the soon-to-be prolific Mingxing Film Company and was directed and written by Mingxing co-founders Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu, respectively.
Notably, the film had both Chinese and English intertitles; a clear indication that at this early point in its history, cinema in Shanghai was made not only for the Chinese, but for the many Westerners residing there as well.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ A Brief History of Chinese Film. Ohio State University. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
- ^ Martin Geiselmann (2006). Chinese Film History - A Short Introduction. The University of Vienna- Sinologie Program. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
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