Film is a kind of continuous image picture developed by the combination of moving picture and slide projection, which is a modern art of vision and hearing, and also a synthesis of modern science and technology and art that can accommodate a variety of arts, such as theater, photography, painting, music, dance, writing, sculpture, architecture and etc.

But it also has its own characteristics.

But it also has its own characteristics, the film in the artistic expression not only has the characteristics of other arts, but also because of the use of montage (French: Montage) this artistic leap in the film grouping techniques, has a means of expression beyond all other arts, and the film can be reproduced in large quantities to show, along with the development of the modern society, the film has been deepened into the social life of mankind, is an indispensable part of people's daily life, and has become an important part of the modern society. With the development of modern society, the movie has penetrated into all aspects of human social life, and is an indispensable part of people's daily life.

Film is a product of the 19th century in the United States, when the standard of living rose and the public demanded new entertainment.

Film is a modern technology based on the principle of visual retention, the use of photographic (and sound recording) means to record the images of external things (and sound) on film, through the projection (while restoring the sound), and the use of electricity to project the moving image on the screen (as well as synchronization of the sound) in order to express a certain content.

Film is a visual and aural art that utilizes film, videotape, or digital media to capture images and sound, plus post-editing.

Film is an integrated modern art, and like art itself, has a complex and varied range of disciplines. There are many types of movies and many ways to categorize them.

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History of the Development of Chinese Film:

From 1896 to the 1920s, although foreigners occupied a monopoly on China's film market, they couldn't stop the beginning of China's film activities. 1903, the German student Lin Zhusan returned to China with a film and a projector, and rented Beijing's Tianle Tea Garden in Qianmen Polishing Factory. In 1905, Ren Qingtai of Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio filmed a Peking opera "Dingjunshan" starring famous Peking opera veteran Tan Xinpei to celebrate his birthday.

From the very beginning, Chinese cinema has combined with the traditional Chinese arts of opera and rap to develop a unique film genre. But the Fengtai Photo Studio, which first attempted to make this type of movie, was only a small business, not a movie institution. It was not until the emergence of the "Movie Department" of the Commercial Press that the Chinese film industry really began.

During this period, in addition to the "Commercial", the successive emergence of film production organizations also include the U.S. investment in "Asia Film Company", "Phantom Fairy", "China", "Shanghai", "New Asia", etc. Since most of their members came from the theater stage, most of the themes and contents of the films at that time originated from Chinese opera and civilized theater. In addition, they also began to shoot short and feature-length films, making the most preliminary exploration and experimentation of the art of cinema.

Chinese cinema was born in 1905, and has gone through various stages of history, including the semi-feudal and semi-colonial period, the revolutionary war period, the construction of new China, the Cultural Revolution, the reform and opening-up period, and the new period of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way; and it has gone through the process of technological change from silent to sound and then to stereo, from black-and-white to color and then to stereoscopic image (3D), from analog to digital, and from traditional to modern. The process of change.

At different stages of development, Chinese films have left behind outstanding masterpieces: during the pioneering period in the 1920s, there were progressive films focusing on social transformation, such as Orphans Saving Their Ancestors; during the period of resistance to the Japanese invasion and salvation, there were films inspiring morale and promoting patriotism such as The Wild Streams and Children of China; and after the war, there were films that profoundly revealed social conflicts and the nature of realism, such as Eight Thousand Miles of Road, the Clouds and the Moon and A River Flowing East, forming the creative trend of realism and the essence of the Chinese film industry. After the war, "Eight Thousand Li Road, Cloud and Moon" and "A River Flows East" profoundly revealed the social contradictions and essence of society, forming the trend of realism.

During the 17 years after the founding of New China in 1949, a large number of excellent works combining realism and romanticism such as The White-haired Girl, Blessing, and The Lin Family Shop emerged, shaping a large number of screen images with a strong national style and forming the first climax of the development of New China's movies; after the decade-long Cultural Revolution, China's movies came out of the doldrums, and a large number of movies such as Little Flower, Man in Middle-Aged, and so on, were produced. After ten years of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese films came out of the doldrums and produced a large number of excellent films reflecting the practice of reform and criticizing the social ills. Especially at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, films with major revolutionary and historical themes such as The Founding Ceremony and The Battle of Armageddon, as well as films with realistic themes such as Jiao Yulu and The Phoenix Qin, formed a second climax.

Entering the 1990s, as a matter of fact, Chinese films have implemented such major measures as film and television merger reform, film excellence project, rural film projection project, film shareholding system, syndication reform, etc., with brand-new breakthroughs and improvements in artistic quality and form. In addition to such works as Kong Fan Sen, The Days of Lei Feng, Xi Lian, and That Mountain, That Man, That Dog, new styles of New Year's movies and comedies such as See No Evil have appeared, and a large number of new forces have emerged.

Entering the new century, Chinese movies have formed a new pattern of coordinated development of state-owned, collective, and private ownership, and the development of movies has embarked on a virtuous circle. Deng Xiaoping, The Cocoanuts, Once Upon a Time in Taiwan and other masterpieces have achieved both social and economic benefits, and domestic blockbusters such as Hero, Myth, and Shock*** have dominated China's market and created box-office miracles for Chinese films in the world of cinema. More than 30 Chinese films have won awards at more than 40 international film festivals.

In 2012*** produced 893 movies of all kinds, with a total national box office of more than 17 billion dollars, while group-buying tickets contributed nearly 2.7 billion dollars to the domestic movie box office, saving 5.012 billion dollars in living expenses for the majority of movie fans.

For the cinema group-buying market fire, industry analysts believe that the movie tickets and catering wedding dresses, compared to its degree of standardization is higher, the cinema is also stronger than the average restaurant reception. Secondly, for ordinary consumers, the ticket price of movie tickets is still high, the demand for movies has been inhibited to a certain extent, and the emergence of group purchasing is just the release of this part of the demand, won a wide range of moviegoers love.

In 2014, China's movie market reached unprecedented heights. 2014, in the face of strong pressure from imported blockbusters, especially Hollywood, domestic movies pressed production, improved quality, continuously improved the level of creativity, and constantly enriched the variety of genres, which was welcomed by the market audience and won the market's dominant position with a share of more than 54%, and a number of excellent films emerged, such as Take the Tiger Mountain, Return and My Darling. A number of outstanding movies have emerged, including "The Return", "Dear" and "Wise Tiger Mountain". At the same time, the works of a group of young movie directors also attracted widespread attention from the society. China's movie market has reached a new height.

Data from the 2013-2017 Analysis Report on China's Film Industry Market Prospecting and Investment Strategy Planning shows that in 2012, China produced 745 feature films (including 92 digital films produced by movie channels), with the total number of all kinds of films produced reaching 893; the national total box office of the film industry reached 17.073 billion yuan, and China's film market entered a period of rapid development.

In February 2013, the number of screenings in China's theaters reached more than 2 million, basically flat compared to January; the number of moviegoers reached more than 57 million, an increase of nearly 10 million, an increase of 19%; *** output box office of more than 2.1 billion yuan, a big increase of nearly 500 million yuan, an increase of up to nearly 30%.

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