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Locals were keen to upgrade their technical skills by working with several visiting international experts. ''It's a classic film that promotes human rights and was strongly anti-Communist,'' Grace Swe Zin Htaik said.Īn Indian representative from Universal Studios came to Myanmar during the early 1950s to provide assistance and much needed film stock. The Myanmar Academy Awards were launched in 1952 and haven't missed a year since.Įven a Myanmar president got into the act _ in 1953 President U Nu wrote a script called The People Win Through, which was picked up by Cascade Pictures California. Like Bollywood, Myanmar's golden years of cinema took place during the 1950s. Just 20 films were made in 1947, which gradually crept up to 40 and then 60. But the temperature underground caused the film to deteriorate.'' During the occupation we couldn't buy film, so we'd tried to save our stock by burying it. The celebrated actress Grace Swe Zin Htaik, a Myanmar Academy Award winner and five time nominee, told Spectrum: ''We started making films again in 1946, but the quality was no good. So many cinema halls were bombed that the industry turned to stage dramas _ no films whatsoever were made until the occupation ended five years later. Although films dealing with social and political themes _ such as gambling and corruption _ were widely popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s, several were censored by the British colonial government.
The 1930s also witnessed the emergence of stunt films and animation, with the first animated short made in what was then known as Bombay. ''It represented the excitement and glamour of the film industry,'' recalled U Myint Soe, a nephew of A1's founder U Nyi Pu. In the 1930s, A1 Film Company's luxurious 28 hectare studio came to be referred to as ''Burma's Hollywood''. Historical films and family dramas dominated throughout the 1920s and in 1931, the 1928 film Wishing on a Grand Thing was exported to English viewers. As early as 1920, Myanmar actresses went abroad to star in Indian and Japanese films, and by 1932 the industry had graduated from silent films to sound. Its first film studio, the Burma (Myanmar) Film Co, screened the nation's first feature film Love and Liquor on Oct 13, 1920, a date that continues to be commemorated annually as Movie Day. The genre was extremely popular in the 1920s and ’30s, as were historical films and family dramas. FLIGHT OF ROMANCE: A poster at the Myanmar Motion Picture Museum from an early romantic film.