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Research
on Film - A Matter of Searching
The Hong Kong Film Archive's Research Section occupies a crucial position
within the archive, beating heavy responsibilities apart from its regular
duty of compiling research materials. The areas of their work include the
following:
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Research
for The Hong Kong Filmography:
The Research Section is responsible for searching all primary materials,
including newspaper articles, video copies, special souvenir programmes,
assorted books and documents, handbills, photographs, etc that help
in the publication of our series of Hong Kong Filmography.
The work also involves tedious checking of names and years among other
trivial details.
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The
Oral History Project:
The Research Section needs to work out whom to interview and arrange
schedules and meetings with film personalities. The outlines of questions
must be drafted and comply with the demands of our interviewer; such
work being done beforehand to ensure a smooth interview. The number
of film personalities interviewed is now well over 180.
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Regular
Research:
Whenever the Archive holds an activity or puts out a publication,
it is the Research Section that supply the relevant information, photographs,
and orgainise interviews. Newspaper cuttings and all kinds of documentary
materials are compiled, arranged and then filed in order to ensure
the Archive's ongoing collection of information.
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Hong
Kong Filmography (1913-2006)
For reference purpose, we have compiled a Hong Kong filmography (1913-2006).
We welcome your advice on errors and omissions in the database. Some
film historians credited Stealing a Roast Duck (1909) as
the first Hong Kong fiction film. It was produced by Benjamin Brodsky's
Shanghai based production company, directed by Leung Siu-po/Liang
Shaobo from Hong Kong and filmed entirely in Hong Kong.
[Download Hong
Kong Filmography (1913-2006)]
(Chinese version only, in pdf format, about 3MB)
Last revision date: 29 Feb 2008
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Hong
Kong Cantonese Opera Films of the 1950s and 1960s
Cantonese opera has always been closely related to Hong Kong cinema
and Cantonese opera film was one of the major genres in the 1950s
and 1960s. For reference purpose, we have compiled a filmography listing
"authentic" opera films and costume musicals. It is interesting
to note that only 4 Cantonese opera films have been produced since
the end of the 1960s, including Laugh in the Sleeve (1975,
Lee Tit), Princess Chang Ping (1976, John Woo), The Legend
of Purple Hair Pin (1977, Lee Tit) and The Legend of Lee
Heung Kwan (1990, Chor Yuan). The filmography is in Chinese only.
[Download
50s & 60s HK Cantonese Opera Filmography]
(Chinese version only, in pdf format, about 450KB)
Last revision date: 7 Sep 2004
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