The Research About China Educational Films Association Before Anti-Japanese War

Film was born in France at the end of the 19th century. When Film was borned, it had been closely integrated with education. The China Educational Film Association (CEFA) was established in July in 1932. It has garthered various celebrities such as Party&Government bigwigs, scholars, famous movie producers and movie stars, thertre directors and so on. The CEFA aims to support education and promote culture. Its contributions to the Chinese cinema agitation steering in the 1930s and the first peak in Chinese film history can not be neglected.This paper is in the basis of drawing the outline of the CEFA's development and activities from foundation to the Anti-Japanese War, trying to have a comprehensive discussion of its movie concept and historical role and influence. After that I will try to comparatively analyze the relationship with the Left-Wing Film Movement (LWFM) leaded by the China Film Culture Association (CFCA). The relationship between the CEFA that KMT thought of it as a "soft" measure in film management and Film Censorship Committee (FCC) that KMT thought of it as a "hard" measure will be reflected how to interaction from positive and negative two aspects to jointly promote the development of Chinese film industry, and show KMT's film management systems and policy ideas in the 1930s. Full-text is divided into four chapters:The first chapter mainly describs the CEFA's generally information. It is begun with the backgrounds and the straight reasons why the CEFA must be established. Then through the concrete materials unfold to discuss its membership composition. Finally draw a conclusion that CEFA has the nature of the "social groups" and point out its member's strong official background.The second chapter summarizes the CEFA's development and activities situation from foundation to the Anti-Japanese War. To correct the social vogue and guide the Chinese film to the right track, the CEFA launched the "revival national films Movement". Then,the CEFA had overcomed difficulties, and played educational films in schools and society by the itinerant means; and also actively organized the Jinling University in Nanking to product China's own educational films.In addition, the CEFA had activity in publishing books and pressed a series of research books about educational film theory and practice. In particular, the CEFA had published the "China Film Yearbook (1934) ", more and more contemporary researchers had paid attention to this book. The final part is a new point about the debate on which film was the first international award winning film of Chinese, "Spring of farmers" or "Song of the Fisherman "?The third chapter excavates the purpose and ideas of the CEFA by analyzing some important documents such as "the new route of Chinese film enterprise","the outlet of film enterprise". The beginning is about what is the definition of "educational film". The researchers have two different tendency. Some people argued that educational films emphasis on "school teaching movie"; the others thought that all films are "educational film". At "the outlet of film enterprise", it has proposed "poor, weak, stupid, selfish, chaos" five problems and five standards about "educational film". This five standards immediately led to steering and prosperity of Chinese films in 1933. Meanwhile, there is a strong reformist stance in the CEFA's concepts. They want to use moderate improvement to establish a new national moral.The fourth chapter analyzes the relationship between two sides, one is the FCC and the CEFA under the direct and indirect control of the KMT in the 1930s, the other sides is the LWFM under the leadership of the CCP, to discuss the KMT's film policy in the 1930s. First, the CEFA and CFCA both two sides have promoted each other and have a close relationship with each other. The next is the relationship between the FCC and the LWFM. The third part is a new understanding about the White Terror Events of the 1930s called "Yi Hua affair".Conclusion section has summarized all the efforts that haven been made by CEFA before the Anti-Japanese War in 1937. Discussing when the CEFA, the FCC and the hands behind the scenes——KMT tried to play the film's moralize function, had the affects of management, control and guidance for the 1930s'films at the same time, and played a "moderate improvement in order to establish a new national moral" purpose, brought about a confluence between the Educational Film Movement and the LWFM in finally, the two sides jointly promote the first China film's peak.