Hong Kong Filmography (1913-2003)

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http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/form/hkfilmography.pdf


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:

1. 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.


2. 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.


3. 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.


4. Hong Kong Filmography (1913-2003)

For reference purpose, we have compiled a Hong Kong filmography (1913-2003). 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 (1913-2003)]
(Chinese version only, in pdf format)


5. 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)