我今天想讲三个问题:第一,中国电影的历史及其分期;第二,三十年代电影的一些情况;第三,对解放前电影和解放后电影的看法,也就是,是厚古薄今,还是厚今薄古的问题。第一,中国电影的历史及其分期电影艺术的历史很短,跟音乐、美术、文学、戏剧不能相比。别的艺术品种有上千年的历史,而电影则还不满一百年,如果从1895年美国发明电影算起,也不过是八十八年。在中国,大概只有七十年(这是从1913年开始拍故事片算起)。如果从党的电影小组成立算起正好是五十年。所以电影的历史很短。在世界范围来讲,电影传到中国不算太晚;中国自己拍电影的历史也不算太晚,在亚洲可能仅次于日本。自1895年美国发明电影后,1896年就在上海徐园放过《活动影戏》, I would like to talk about three issues today: first, the history of the Chinese film and its stages; some of the films of the second and third decades; and third, the view of the pre-liberation film and the post-liberation film, that is, Thin today, or thin this ancient issue. First, the history of Chinese cinema and its division The history of cinema art is very short and can not be compared with music, art, literature and drama. Other art species have thousands of years of history, while movies are less than a hundred years old. If the film was invented by the United States in 1895, it would have been only eighty-eight years. In China, it is only about seventy years (this is from the beginning of the feature film in 1913). It is exactly fifty years from the establishment of the party’s film team. So the history of the movie is very short. It is not too late for the film to reach China on a world scale. It is not too late for China to make its own film and probably second only to Japan in Asia. Since the invention of the movie in 1895 in the United States, 1896, Xu Yuan in Shanghai has let off a “movie”