| Shanghai is used to be called metropolis rather than city, in order to stress her modern and stylish character. Early in 1842, after signing the "Treaty of Nanjing", Shanghai has become one of open foreign trading seaports in China, meanwhile, a large flow of fresh things, western thoughts as well as culture began to be introduced in. This place is the first issue of "The Young Companion" has ever published and also the creating center of Chinese movies.In 1920s, when the magazine "The Young Companion" was founded, Chinese movie industry has also developed into a formal direction, and entered into its booming period. The Star Company, Unique Company, U.P.S Production are slightly better than the others no matter from the scale, or influences. On technology, our nation's sound motion pictures and cartoons were all developing in the trials and explorations;on actors, the Star-generating movement of China has also come into being ardently, actresses especially attracted people's attention. As a printing medium, "The Young Companion" could take in movie affairs at right time. It not only keeps a watchful eye on homegrown films, but on foreign films (especially for Hollywood films), which has also been preserved during the whole process of this magazine.Pictorial magazine is a special one. A Large number of pictures have broken the characters' narrative functions, while, through a visual recreation, the final effect could enlarge its reporting, publicity, as well as esthetic function. The amazing pictures of the whole Shanghai presented by "The Young Companion" have been widely accepted and long been praised by people. For those the movies, if also share the modern and stunning features, "The Young Companion" will also make a full report and publicity by using an image-text style but images are preferred.This paper selected 172 editions from "The Young Companion" from 1926 to 1941 together with 1945 as the subject. Through reading, grooming the existed data, the author adopted a kind of intensive interpretation method to inspect large amount of pictures, photos so as to establish a kind of new historical imagination about the our nation's early movies. |
