Korea"s Oldest Fiction Film Discovered
Published: 04 Jan. 2003, 18:08
The main characters in the film are played by Suk Keum-sung and Kim So-yeoung. It is a 35mm black and white film 12 minutes long, and some parts are lost, but this does not diminish its importance as the oldest known Korean film.
The Korean Film Archive will screen four old films at its center in the the Seoul Art Center at 2:00 pm on August 19: 'Shimchungjun'; 'Uhhwa' (Fisherman's Fire), directed by Ahn Chul-young in 1939; 'HyeolgwaHan' (Blood and Dirt), directed by Shin Kyeoung-Kyun in 1949; and another film, details of which have not been released.
After the screenings, a professor at Sangmyung University will lead a discussion on the significance and value of disinterring these earliest examples of experiments with the moving image.
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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