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| 1909 | ||||
| Dec - | American Benjamin Polaski founds The Asian Film Company. Films produced include The Widowed Empress, The Unfilial Son, Revealed by the Pot, and Stealing the Cooked Ducks. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1913 | ||||
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| – Hong Kong’s first fiction film, Zhuangzi Shiqi (Zhuangzi Tests His Wife), directed by Beihai Li, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1926 | ||||
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– Hero of the Sea, and The Nameless Hero, Hong Kong’s first feature-length films, are released in this year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1933 | ||||
| – The Tianyi film production company produce the first Cantonese talkie, Bai jin lon (White Gold Dragon) in Shanghai, China, this year. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1948 | ||||
| – Madame Butterfly, the first Cantonese colour film, is released by Grandview studios. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1953 | ||||
| – The Asia Film Company is founded. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1955 | ||||
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– Kong Ngee, a distributor and exhibitor of Chinese films in Singapore forms a company in Hong Kong to make films in Cantonese. [MORE] [ADD} |
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| 1961 | ||||
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– The Shaw brothers open their studio. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1963 | ||||
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Liang Shan Bo yu Zhu Ying Tai (Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-tai) (Han Hsiang Li) [MORE] [ADD] |
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French director Philippe de Broca begins filming Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (Chinese Adventures in China) on location with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress and Jean Rochefort. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1967 | ||||
| 19/11 - | Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVR) begins broadcasting, contributing to a major decline in the production of Cantonese-language films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1970 | ||||
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- Raymond Chow founds Golden Harvest production company. [MORE] [ADD] |