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{{Short description|Former Chinese film production company}} |
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| name = Mingxing Film Company<br />明星影片公司 |
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| logo=Mingxing Film Company (1937) production logo.jpg |
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| logo_caption = Production logo |
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| foundation = 1922 |
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| founder = ],<br />],<br />] |
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| defunct = 1937 |
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| location_city = Shanghai |
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| location_country = China |
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'''Mingxing Film Company''' ({{zh|c=明星影片公司|p=Míngxīng Yǐngpiān Gōngsī|l=Bright Star Film Company}}), also known as the '''Star Motion Picture Company''', was one of the largest ] during the 1920s, and 1930s in the ]. Founded in ], the company lasted from 1922 until 1937 when it was closed permanently by the ]. |
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==History== |
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Founded in 1922 by ], ], and ], Mingxing emerged along with ], and ] as one of the three dominant film studios of the 1920s.<ref name=Zhang>{{cite web|url=http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/essay_ccwlc.html |author=Zhang, Yingjin |title=A Centennial Review of Chinese Cinema |date=2003-10-10 |accessdate=2008-01-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907160026/http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/essay_ccwlc.html |archivedate=2008-09-07 }}</ref> During this period, all three studios were known for producing "light" entertainment though even at this early time there was a sign of social criticism, inherited from the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/cinema/programs/past-programs/hong-kong-shanghai-cinema-cities |title=Hong Kong Shanghai: Cinema Cities |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2007 |website= |publisher=] {{!}} Gallery Of Modern Art |access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref> |
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The film company struggled in its first few years with comic shorts like 1922's '']''. In 1923, the company produced '']'' which became a commercial success and with it Mingxing's fortunes were assured.<ref name=Zhang/> |
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By the early 1930s, Mingxing had become the leading film studio in China, and dominated the market with its upstart rival, the ] (which had co-opted Dazhonghua Baihe) as a close second. In 1931, the first Chinese ] '']'' was made, the product of a cooperation between the Mingxing Film Company's image production and ]'s sound technology.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDRxR-wb-fsC&pg=PT262 |title=A Companion to Chinese Cinema |editor= Yingjin Zhang |publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |chapter=Chapter 24 - Chinese Cinema and Technology |author=Gary G. Xu |year=2012 |isbn=978-1444330298 }}</ref> However, the sound was disc-recorded, and the first sound-on-film ] made in China was by Tianyi Film Company. Tianyi also continued to produce films throughout the 1930s, though its output did not match the two leaders. By the mid-1930s, both Mingxing and Lianhua became major production houses for films in Shanghai. With the death of co-founder Zheng Zhengqiu in 1934, and the advent of full-scale war in 1937, Mingxing was forced to close its doors permanently. |
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Elements of the Mingxing operation would be resurrected by Zhang Shichuan in 1938 as the ].<ref>Fu, p. 9</ref> |
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==Notable films== |
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{{Main|List of Mingxing films}} |
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*'']'' (1922) (Dir. ]) |
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*'']'' (1922) (Dir. Zhang Shichuan) |
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*'']'' (1923) (Dir. Zhang Shichuan) |
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*'']'' (1928) (Dir Zhang Shichuan) |
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*'']'' (1933) (Dir. ]) |
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*'']'' (1933) (Dir. Cheng Bugao) |
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*'']'' (1935) (Dir. ]) |
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*'']'' (1937) (Dir. Shen Xiling) |
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*'']'' (1937) (Dir. ]) |
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==See also== |
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== Notes == |
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== References == |
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* Fu, Poshek. ''Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. |
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* Zhang, Yingjin. "A Centennial Review of Chinese Cinema" ''available at'' https://web.archive.org/web/20080907160026/http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/essay_ccwlc.html. |
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==External links== |
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