The background of the singer Red Peony

1On August 6th, 926, Don Juan, the world's first short film with sound, was released in the United States, which caused a great debate all over the world. Many film artists at that time strongly opposed the new invention of using film sound technology. Charlie Chaplin said: "There are several people sitting there, wearing headphones and dressed like soldiers from Mars; There are several microphones hanging above the actors, just like fishhooks. This scene is so complicated and frustrating. Who can be creative in this pile of rubbish? "There are also two schools of opinion among investors. Sam Warner and Harry Warner, the bosses of Warner Company, think that talking movies are a huge business opportunity, while other bosses worry that this technology will make them spend too much money on equipment, and the production of actors' talking will make American movies fall out of favor in the world.

In Europe, most intellectuals grew up in the aesthetic tradition of striving for perfection in oral and written language, so they strongly oppose talking movies. In France, a slogan against talking movies appeared: "Noise? Yes! Language? No! " In Japan, talking movies are strongly resisted by debaters. These people used to be chattering commentators, explaining the movements of silent movies to the audience. They can get high salaries, but their existence is redundant in front of audio movies. At first, they tried to drown out the conversation with loud voices, or forced the theater manager to turn off the audio equipment. Finally, they began to use intimidation and hired thugs to attack the manager of the film projection company.

However, in China, the pros and cons of film vocalization are hotly debated, and the opposing opinions seem to have the upper hand. The reasons they put forward are: "First, the dialects in our country are not unified, second, it is quite difficult to develop without the input of Xiongda University, and third, it is necessary to cultivate a class of actors with good voices who can perform at the same time." And all this "can't be done overnight."

"Sound" or "silence" became a multiple-choice question that China Film Company had to answer at that time. Lianhua Company, which started as a cinema operator, chose to shoot silent films because it could not change its cinema screening equipment in a short time. However, Tianyi Company, due to its early use of audio equipment in cinemas in Nanyang and the bold and astute style of Shaw Brothers, really devoted itself to sound film shooting. The mature star film companies pay equal attention to both, claiming to continue to focus on silent films, but secretly stepping up the experiment of audio films.

193 1 In March, China's first sound film "Goddess Red Peony" was released in Shanghai, which immediately caused a sensation at home and abroad. In the second half of the year, Rain by Huaguang Film Company and Singing Spring by Tianyi Company, two sound films with more mature on-chip pronunciation technology, also stood out. It took China filmmakers only one year to complete the Shoot with sound film. Although the smoke of the competition between audio films and silent films will still exist for a long time, it is a good start after all.