List of Chinese film-production companies before 1949
The following is a list of notable film production companies from Mainland China before the communist revolution in 1949.
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C[]
- Changcheng Film Company- (Great Wall) Active in the 1920s
D[]
- - (Great Earth), Hong Kong production company active between 1939-1940 that focused on Mandarin-language films, founded by Cai Chusheng and Situ Huimin
- Datong Film Company- (Great Harmony), Major privately owned production company of the 1940s
- - (Great China), first major production company to emerge in post-war Hong Kong, focused on Mandarin-language films
- - Major production company of the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua
- Diantong Film Company- Leftist film company active from 1934-1935. Only produced four films.
G[]
- - Founded in the late 1930s by former Mingxing director Zhang Shichuan, major rival of Xinhua Film Company during the "Solitary Island" period
H[]
- - (China-America Film), early production company founded by American in Hong Kong. Only produced one film, Lai Man-Wai's landmark 1913 film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife.
K[]
- - (Mount Kunlun Pictures), Major privately owned production company in the 1940s, produced the 1949 anti-GMD film Crows and Sparrows
L[]
- Lianhua Film Company
M[]
- Manchukuo Film Association- One of the most controversial company under Japanese authority
- China Sun Motion Picture Company, Lai Man-wai's production company, later merged into Lianhua.
- Mingxing Film Company- (Star)
N[]
- Northeast Film Studio- One of the cornerstone companies.
S[]
- Shanghai Animation Film Studio
- ("Shanghai Films")- Active in the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua
T[]
- Tianyi Film Company (Unique Film Productions), predecessor of the Shaw Brothers Studio, active in the 1920s and 1930s
W[]
- Wenhua Film Company- (Cultural China), major privately owned (by Wu Xingcai) production company of the 1940s; produced Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town (1947)
X[]
- - active in the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua
- - Produced 1938 The Blood Spilt in the Treasure Mountain City.
- Xinhua Film Company- (New China), leftist film company, active in the 1930s and 1940s
Y[]
- - Active in the 1930s, produced Leftist films
Z[]
- - (Central) Minor production company, active in the 1930s
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