A Chinese Production with Hollywood Taste Anne Kerlan
A Chinese production with Hollywood taste Anne Kerlan To cite this version: Anne Kerlan. A Chinese production with Hollywood taste: Love and Duty (Lian’ai yu Yiwu), by Bu Wancang, 1931. Steve Neale. Silent Features, The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914-1934, 2019, 9780859892896. halshs-01164763 HAL Id: halshs-01164763 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01164763 Submitted on 17 Jun 2015 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. A Chinese production with Hollywood taste: Love and Duty (Lian’ai yu yiwu), by Bu Wancang, 1931. Anne Kerlan, IHTP-CNRS, Paris Love and Duty (Lian’ai yu yiwu, Bu Wancang, 1931) belongs to those films that can make us believe in miracles. Considered lost for more than half a century, it was rediscovered fully intact far away from China, the country where it was produced in 1931 in the belongings of a former high-ranking officer in the Chinese Nationalist Army, who was for many the Republic of China’s consul in Uruguay. The third production of one of the main film company of China, the United Picture Service (U.P.S. or Lianhua yingye gongsi; thereafter U.P.S.), with two of the biggest stars of the early 1930’s playing in it, it is both a beautiful film and an important landmark in the history of the company and of Chinese cinema.
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