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Article: China needs outstanding film producers, official says
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 2, 2007
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China needs outstanding film producers, official says
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese film industry needs to
resurrect its producer system and find a new generation of producers
who are politically, aesthetically and economically competent, a
senior film administrator said here on Friday.
In the 1920s, China saw the emergence of a batch of outstanding
producers -- such as Zhang Shichuan, Zhang Shankuan, Xiang Yunhu, Gu
Eryi, and Gu Yelu -- who, like their Hollywood counterparts of the
period, had both artistic and financial control of the filmmaking
process.
But the system broke down in the 1950s when the state took over
all the film studios and copied the Soviet Union model of ...