Film studios offer nostalgic feel
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ONE cannot speak of the film-making bases in the city without mentioning Shanghai Film Studios Amusement Park at Chedun of Songjiang District.
Funded and built by the Shanghai Film (Group) Co Ltd, the park is a site for film & TV shooting, sightseeing and cultural communication.
It features old Shanghai scenes and buildings, such as 1930s Nanjing Road, Nanjing Road W., shikumen alleyways of Shanghai, old town of Shanghai, European style buildings, the Suzhou Creek neighborhood, the Moller Villa, churches, the Peace Plaza, the Zhejiang Road steel bridge and so on.
Visitors can not only pose for photos in front of the buildings, but also venture into some of them. It’s very likely that they will encounter some crews which are shooting new films or TV dramas there.
It has been said that this is a 1930s Shanghai funland, a different time and space from the prosperous, modern, new Shanghai. Almost every building on the street has been seen on the large screen.
The trolley buses shuttling past pedestrians, the railway station that had witnessed thousands of people gathering and parting, the Garden Bridge, the Moller Villa, the pointed church, as well as the songs and dances of the old days, were manifesting by themselves in the old Shanghai dreams.
Most of the domestic films and TV dramas’ setting in old Shanghai has been shot here. The most renowned should be “Romance in the Rain” and “Lust, Caution.”
In contrast to the well-known Chedun film studios park, Yang Peipei Film and TV Studio Base of Shanghai Jizhong Film Culture Communication Co Ltd may not be as well known to the public. But many TV viewers would have seen the recent hit of Hunan Satellite TV, “Delicious Destiny,” or those popular online dramas, such as “Wu Xin — the Monster Killer,” “Rakshasa Street” and “Rush to the Dead Summer.” All of them have been set and shot in the studio base in Yexie Town, also in Songjiang.
Built in 2004, the base covers an area of about 7,000 square meters. People can find ancient streets, the quadrangle courtyard, building groups of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, and a small town in the south of Yangtze River.
The studios, hotels and restaurants, along with the professional prop warehouses, costume factories, and light and equipment warehouses, can meet different needs of film or TV crews.
Meanwhile, to match up the construction of Songjiang Scientific Film Capital proposed by G60 Scientific Corridor Planning Version 2.0, the newly unveiled Songjiang District Science and Technology Museum G60 Exhibition Hall opens an area for Film and Television Cultural Industry Exhibition, showcasing and promoting the film and television history and resources of Songjiang. The exhibits include posters of classic silence movies and the performance props of Charlie Chaplin.
There are also replicated classic street scenes of Chedun Film Studios Amusement Park, where visitors can pose for pictures freely. In addition, the 60-inch screen plays videos produced with the modern film special effects, leading the audience to experience the charm of high-tech on modern film production.
Shanghai Film Park
Yang Peipei Film and TV Studio Base
Film and Television Cultural Industry Exhibition at Songjiang District Science and Technology Museum G60 Exhibition Hall
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