Beijing Film Academy

Beijing Film Academy (abbreviated as BFA) is China's only, Asia's largest and world-famous film college. It is an art college supported by Beijing Municipal director, SARFT and the Ministry of education.

The predecessor of Beijing Film Academy is the Institute of performing arts of the central film administration founded in 1950. In 1951, it was renamed the film school of the film Bureau of the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China; in 1953, it was renamed the Beijing Film School; in 1956, it was finally transformed into the Beijing Film Academy. Since its establishment for more than 60 years, Beijing Film Academy has cultivated more than 20000 film workers for new China's film industry, known as "the cradle of Chinese film talents".

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The origin of Beiying

A brief history of its predecessor

At the beginning of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese War, after the Yan'an film group led by the Communist Party of China made the film Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army, Yuan Muzhi, the head of the film group, was appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to carry all the negatives of the film to Moscow in the summer of 1940 for post production. During his stay in the Soviet Union, Yuan Muzhi visited the all Soviet National Film Academy in Moscow. He was greatly inspired by the original intention that China also needs to establish a "China's own film University" to develop the people's film industry.

With the rapid progress of the Chinese people's war of liberation, in order to meet the national liberation, cultivate and save cadres, according to the instructions of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, at that time, the Northeast film studio, the only base of the people's film industry, held four training courses for film cadres from the beginning of 1947, and trained more than 520 cadres, of which 440 cadres participated in film work and more than 70 participated in film production The army and local cultural work have been strengthened. The orientation and educational policy of these training classes have accumulated experience for the establishment of China's own film education.

After the birth of the people's Republic of China, Zhou Yang, Xia Yan, Yuan Muzhi, Chen Bo'er and other leaders of new China's film industry felt that they needed a large number of film professionals who acted as workers, peasants and soldiers and wrote about workers, peasants and soldiers when planning the transformation, construction and development of the old China's film garden. Chen Bo'er was appointed to plan and implement the project from the reality when he did not have the conditions to set up "China's own film University" for the time being. So people's film education began its initial stage. Under the leadership of Chen Bo'er, Xie Tieli, Ba Hong, Wang gengyao and others, after planning, and with the consent of the Ministry of culture, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Premier Zhou Enlai, founded the Institute of performing arts of the film Bureau of the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China in June 1950. And in early July in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and other places to start enrollment.

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On September 14, 1950, 38 students of the first three-year actor class held the opening ceremony.

Chen Bo'er is the director of the Institute of performing arts. The site is located in No.4 courtyard of shilaoniang alley in Xicheng District, and then gradually developed three school buildings, namely: No.9 courtyard of shilaoniang alley, Shoubi alley, Dacheng lane and other four quadrangles, covering an area of 3200 square meters, with an area of 2000 square meters. During the period of Performing Arts Research Institute, the branch of the Communist Party of China was the eighth branch under the general branch of the film Bureau.

Actors class 1 enrolled two students in 1951 and 1952. There were 55 students when they graduated.

From the beginning of the new academic year in 1951, class 2 of actors and class 2 of screenwriters were recruited. There were 24 students in class 2 of actors and 37 students in class 2 of screenwriters.

In May 1951, the Institute of performing arts was renamed the film school of the film Bureau of the central Ministry of culture.

At that time, most of the professional teachers were artists who had been engaged in revolutionary literature and art for many years from the liberated areas, the army and the Kuomintang ruled areas. The teachers are: Wang Yi, Yan Gong, Xie Tieli, Chen Huaiai, Ba Hong, Li Luling, Xiao Long, Shi Lianxing, Tang Yuanzhi, Geng Xi, Xu Zhiqiao, Wang Zhenzhi, Wu Tian, Lin Yi, etc. At that time, in terms of teaching, he began to learn the Soviet drama and performance theory that had been introduced to China, and compiled professional teaching materials such as "acting course". At the same time, Pei Wenzhong and Jin Kemu were invited to teach "history of social development" and "political economy" respectively. Wang Zhenzhi taught "speech at Yan'an Forum on literature and art", and Shi Dongshan and Cai Chusheng taught "film characteristics". In addition, Xia Yan, Zhou Yang, Feng Xuefeng, Chen Huangmei, Yu Min, Yu Pingbo, Ding Ling, Nie Gannu, sun Jiaxiu, Ai Qing, Lao She, Sheng Jialun and other famous literary artists all came to the university to give lectures.

During the period of Performing Arts Research Institute, although there were not many professional teachers and the teaching plan was relatively simple, the courses taught covered all aspects of literature and art, and the students received a wide range of knowledge. During this period, there was no special teaching equipment and the conditions were simple. Practicing martial arts was on the brick floor in the courtyard, and people had to go to the cinema to buy tickets. Classroom and dormitory are all coal-fired furnaces in winter. Although the conditions are hard, the style of study is united, tense, lively and serious.

In the autumn of 1951, actors class 1, class 2 and screenwriter class went to Hanyang, Hubei Province to participate in land reform for 6-8 months. After that, the screenwriter class went to Shijingshan iron and steel plant to work in the workshop trade union and lived with the workers for three months.

Adjustment of colleges and departments

In 1952, the departments of colleges and universities nationwide were adjusted. The film broadcasting specialty of Nanjing Jinling University headed by Professor Sun Mingjing, the audio-visual education specialty of Sunan Institute of culture and education headed by Professor Chen Hesheng, and the animation specialty of Suzhou Academy of fine arts headed by Professor Qian Jiajun and fan Jingxiang were transferred to the film school together with the teaching equipment of the three schools. So far, the film school has become a comprehensive school with art department and technology department. It marks a new step of Chinese film education. At the same time, the school moved to the new school building in huanggufen, outside the gap in Xinjiekou, Beijing. The new school covers an area of 3.3 hectares, with a construction area of 6900 square meters, including 300 square meters of rehearsal hall, 1800 square meters of theater (performance and projection), 600 square meters of classrooms and laboratories, and 15000 square meters of simple playground set in the south of the school site.

After the adjustment of departments and colleges, in 1952, the film school participated in the unified enrollment of colleges and universities across the country, and opened three two-year junior college classes, namely, journalism and photography major, development and printing major and animation major transferred from Suzhou Art College. Besides junior college classes, development and printing major also recruited secondary school classes. In order to develop the film projection work in ethnic areas, the film school held a training class for projection teachers in ethnic areas. Until 1954, they successively held training courses for in-service cadres, such as training courses for news photography cadres, the first training course for projection teachers, Russian specialized courses and so on.

In March 1953, the film school of the film Bureau of the central Ministry of culture was renamed Beijing Film School.

On December 24, 1953, the 199th Executive Council of the Central People's government made a decision. “…… The film bureau should actively prepare for the establishment of the Academy of film arts within four to five years to cultivate film talents, first of all, screenwriters, directors and actors. In the first Five-Year Plan for the development of film industry formulated by the film industry administration, there is a plan to establish Beijing Film Academy on the basis of Beijing Film School. On the one hand, the Ministry of culture sent a group of foreign students to the Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Germany to study film writing, film photography, film art and film engineering; on the other hand, it organized special personnel to investigate film education in the Soviet Union; at the same time, it hired Soviet film education experts to give lectures and train teachers. In November 1955, the Soviet experts B. Ivanov, B. kazansky, A. Simonov and B. antoninko presided over the lecture. Four specialized courses of director, actor, photography and production were held with the focus on the cultivation of teachers. The students were all in-service cadres from the creative and production departments of various film studios with considerable practical experience. The length of schooling was two years. At the same time, the school has equipped some teachers to assist Soviet experts in their work and study in class.

In addition to theoretical teaching, Soviet experts paid more attention to the practice of film homework during recess. Therefore, the school established the practice office on the basis of the original performance department, adding film practice equipment and teaching support. Under the guidance of the Soviet experts, the four specialized classes successively shot nine pieces of joint operation films, such as "the storm of the little white flag" and "mutiny among relatives". The actor specialized class also rehearsed the stage plays "enemy" and "the Twelfth Night". Premier Zhou Enlai personally watched the performance of the twelfth night and met with Soviet experts and students. He affirmed and encouraged the experts' teaching and students' academic achievements.

In July 1955, the "report on the preparation for the establishment of Beijing Film Academy" by the preparatory group of Beijing Film Academy was submitted to the Government Affairs Council by the Ministry of culture. Premier Zhou Enlai personally gave instructions to the Ministry of higher education on July 24, and the Department of Comprehensive Education officially listed the plan on August 4.

From the first actor class of the Performing Arts Institute to the specialized class, the initial stage of film education, has provided 576 professional graduates for the urgent need and development of new China's film industry. Among them, Li Zibai, Yin Zhiming, Zhao Lian, Pang Xueqin, Li Mengyao, Sun Yu, Zhang Tianmin, Lin Ruwei, Lin Nong, Wang Yan, Yu Yanfu, Dong kena, Yang Jing, Yu Yang, Zhang Guilan, Li Wenhua, Wei duo, Shen Jie, Chang Yan, and ADA are a large number of famous artists

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