![]() ![]() This article was first posted on 27th April 2020. Many of China Stars film have been successful on an international scale. Ben Brodsky & the real dawn of Hong Kong cinema China Daily 13th March 2010 China Star produced a total of 11 films, accounting for 18 of the 61 Hong Kong films produced in the year.HKM is Hong Kong’s response to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme which calls for the preservation of valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world through digitization to guard against collective amnesia. The materials include text documents, photographs, posters, sound recordings, motion pictures and videos. The Hong Kong Memory Project Hong Kong Memory (HKM) is a multi-media web site that gives free and open access to digitized materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage.Benjamin Brodsky biography, Hong Kong Memory Project.The copy in the Taipei Film Archive was only 80 minutes long, significantly shorter than the original 2-hour long version, but didn’t undermine the film’s importance in documenting early Chinese society. It was critically acclaimed after its release in the US, Brodsky was even praised by the media as “King of Chinese Cinema”. He created a documentary with vision, presenting the ordinary lives and natural beauty of towns and villages. In 1914, with better production conditions gained through connecting to Yuan Shikai’s government, he ultimately made A Trip Through China (1917).īrodsky shot A Trip Through China in various Chinese cities. ![]() It was well received in high society and earned Brodsky a reputation. In 1914, Brodsky made his first film, The Sport of Kings (retitled Hong Kong Races) on the annual Hong Kong horse race. Van Velzer from New York for staff training, equipment and printing laboratory building. Source: Hong Kong Memory Project.Įventually he founded the Variety Film Exchange Company and Variety Film Manufacturing Company in 1913 on Nathan Road, Hong Kong. Benjamin Brodsky the President of China Cinema Company Limited and nine Chinese board of directors, including high government officials, economists, entrepreneurs. A group picture published in the Moving Picture World on April 10 1915. Group photo of China Cinema Company Limited. With the Chinese government’s financial support and young intellectuals’ love of Western drama and cinema after the Republican Revolution, he travelled to the US to purchase new films and planned to return to China to make films. He came to China in 1909 to start his business of film projection and trading related equipment. First to open a film production company in Hong Kong, he inspired his friends Lai Man-wai, Lai Buk-hoi and Lo Wing-cheung to become filmmakers, laying the seeds for the Hong Kong film industry.īrodsky travelled around the world as a film projectionist when he was young. Benjamin Brodsky Source: HK Memory Projectīenjamin Brodsky, a Russian Jew, was one of the pioneers of the Hong Kong film industry.
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