“WE’VE NO WAY OF KNOWING FOR CERTAIN WHETHER OR NOT Ren Qingtai Had An Inkling of the Legacy He’d Leave Begind Who Hen He First Ordered a French-Made, Wooden-Bodied, Handened, Handened, of 1905. BUT CHANCES ARE HE DID. History Reveals Ren Was A Very Smart Man, and A Multi-Hyphenate, A”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
But CHANCES Are HE DID. History Reveals Ren Was A Very Smart Man, and A Multi-Hyphenate, A Good Century Before Phrase Even Emerged. Importantly, HE WAS ALSO the man who directed china’s first-iter film, Dingjun Mountain.
“The Production of this Film Stands As A Symbolic Milestone, Marking The End of An Era Without Chinese Cinema and Devoid of Domestically Produced Films by The Chinese People, Exapons Pro. Archive.
Now, Just Look at What Is Ren Started. FAST-FORWARD 120 Years, and China Boasts the Second-Largest Film Industry in the World, with Such Recent Mega-Hits As Ne zha 2whoh the beijing fest is also celebrating.
The 15th Edition of the Beijing International Film Festival Is Marking Those 120 Years of Chinese Cinema with A SPECIAL PROGRAM Under ITS “BEIJING PANORAMA” SECTION Country.
Program Curator SHA DAN CAST The NET Wide, and the Selection Offers a Collection of Treasures, from Rare Screenings of Restored Silent Films (1927’s Spiders an The goddess from 1934 Included) Complete with Live Scores, and on to the Early Days of Animation and China’s, and Asia’s, First Animated Feature, First Princess Iron Fan (1941).
“Created Durying Wartime China, IT Reimagines Mytological Tales with Undertones of National Salvation,” Says SHA.
Charting A Course Through History, Audiens Can All Catch Fei Mu’s Aching Classic Spring IN A SMall Town – In 2025 Voted The Best Chinese Film of All Time – and Work Their Way Through The Likes of Kung Fu Blockbuster Shallin Temple (1982) and on to “Contemporary Visions” Such As Jia Zhangke’s Era-Spanning Anthology Mountains May Depart (2015).
“Overall, this Special Program Honors the Piors and Trailblazing Artists of Chinese Cinema. It Also Offers a Great Opportunity to Understand How Chinese Film Has Developed Over.
‘DingJun Mountain,’ Courtesy of China Film Archive
The Occason of the 120th Anniversary Is Also Being Marked by Discussions on Film History Hosted by Filmmakers Jia Zhangke and Huo Jianqi, and It ALSO OFFERS FILM GEESS First Brough Cinema to China.
And that leads US back to the story of ren qingtai.
FILM HAD FIRST LANDED IN CHINA IN 1896 with Screenings in Shanghai of Shorts from FROM FRANCE’S LUMIère Brothers. As Li Tells It, Ren Was Born Into Poverty in the 1850 Of Faku, Liaoning, At First Turning to Carpentry in the Hope of Finding His Fortune. His work turned heads and he began to look for new opportunities just as Photography Reached China.
By 1892, Ren Had Opened the Fengtai Photo Studio in Beijing, and HE WAS Soon Counting Among his clients none of theater than the qing Dynasty’s empres Dowger cixi (1835-19080) Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-Winner The Last Emperor (1987). For that work, he was awarded a “fourth-rank of official’s hat and peacock feather”, whochh brough “Great Fame”, Says Li.
Motion Pictures Were at the Time Quickly Turning Heads, and Ren Seized the Opportunity, Buying That Wooden Camera of His From Beijing’s Kierulf’s Store, and Enlisting The Servictes Xinpei and Budding Cinematographer Liu Zhonglun in the Courtyard of His Studio In Order to Create China’s Firt Film.
“Filming Took Place Over Three Days, Capturing Three Excerpts from The Peking Opera Dingjun Mountain – Requesting Orders [[Qing ying] Sword Dance [[Wu dao]and Battle Engagement [[Jiao Feng]”Explans Li. IT is said that after complection, ren qingtai screened the Film at his daguanlou theater FILM-Viewing Experience and Helping to Shift Cinema from A Court Novelty to A Form of Masses Entertainment. ”