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  2. Cinema of China - Wikipedia

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    Cinema of China No. of screens 86,300 (2023) • Per capita 2.98 per 100,000 (2016) Main distributors China Film (32.8%) Huaxia (22.89%) Enlight (7.75%) Produced feature films (2016) Fictional 772 Animated 49 Documentary 32 Number of admissions (2016) Total 1,370,000,000 • Per capita 1 Gross box office (2023) Total CN¥54.9 billion (US$7.73 billion) National films 58.33% The cinema of China ...

  3. History of film - Wikipedia

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    Released in 1901, the British film Attack on a China Mission was one of the first films to show a continuity of action across multiple scenes. [33] The use of the intertitle to explain actions and dialogue on screen began in the early 1900s. Filmed intertitles were first used in Robert W. Paul's film, Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost. [54]

  4. Cinema of Asia - Wikipedia

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    The first short films from Asia were produced during the 1890s. The first short films produced in Japan were Bake Jizo (Jizo the Spook) and Shinin no Sosei (Resurrection of a Corpse), both from 1898. [5] The first Indian short film was also produced in 1898, The Flower of Persia, directed by Hiralal Sen. [6]

  5. Film industry - Wikipedia

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    Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first Chinese film, Dingjun Mountain, was made in 1905, with the film industry being centered on Shanghai in the first decades. China is the home of one of the largest film studios in the world, the Hengdian World Studios , and in 2010 it had the third largest film industry by number of feature ...

  6. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    Skyfall is the first film to gross over £100 million in the United Kingdom. [140] The Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese, becomes the first major American movie to be delivered to theaters in digital formats only. [141] Stalingrad is the first Russian film to be released in IMAX. [142][143] 2014.

  7. Media history of China - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1983, there were approximately 162,000 film projection units in China. [2]: 1 Most of these were used by mobile movie teams which showed films outdoors in rural and urban areas. [5]: 102. In 1980, the Chinese computing technology was estimated to be about 15 years behind United States technology. [24]

  8. Category:History of China on film - Wikipedia

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    To Live (1994 film) The Tokyo Trial (film) Categories: History of China in fiction. History of countries on film. Films set in China. Works about Chinese history.

  9. History of animation - Wikipedia

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    The history of animation, the method for creating moving pictures from still images, has an early history and a modern history that began with the advent of celluloid film in 1888. Between 1895 and 1920, during the rise of the cinematic industry, several different animation techniques were developed or re-invented, including stop-motion with ...