Cinematic landscape

A retrospective look at the film industry shows its changing fortunes over the past seven decades of New China, Xu Fan reports.

In the early spring of 1949, Northeast Film Studio - the first movie production company established by the Communist Party of China - wrapped up the shooting of Bridge in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province.

Widely regarded as the first feature-length movie produced in the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the black-and-white movie opened a new chapter in Chinese cinema.