United Photoplay Services Film Studio
Another high-profile business which Fung was involved in was the major movie studio United Photoplay Service Ltd (聯華影業製片印刷有限公司), which was created in 1930 as a merger of several studios led by Lo Ming-you (羅明佑), the scion of a prominent comprador family.
I asked Phil Kenny if he knew anything about the studio:
I don’t know anything about this company. My knowledge of these older Chinese ones is quite limited and I can only point you to the wikipedia entry for what I assume is the same company. Doesn’t sound like it was HK-based though.
(York Lo Fung Tang article)
wikipedia “The Lianhua Film Company (simplified Chinese: 联华影业公司; traditional Chinese: 聯華影業公司; pinyin: Liánhuá yǐngyè gōngsī; literally: “United China Film Company”) was one of the three dominant production companies based in Shanghai, China during the 1930s, the other two being the Mingxing Film Company and the Tianyi Film Company, the forerunner of the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studio.
The original name of the company was Lianhua Productions. It is also known by a large number of translated names, notably China Film Company, United China Film Company and United Photoplay Service. The full name of the limited company later on was called “Lianhua Film Production and Processing Company, Ltd.”
Source:
- Lianhua Film Company – wikipedia
- link Phil Kenny’s website and info about it.
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