黎民偉先生
1893-1953
監製
中國電影先驅，與長兄黎海山和四兄黎北海創辦新世界戲院和民新製造影畫片有限公司，並參與製作香港首部劇情短片《莊子試妻》（1914）和長片《胭脂》（1925）。他亦是拍攝紀錄片的先驅，早於1923年已遠赴出生地日本拍攝新聞紀錄片《中國競技員赴日本第六屆遠東運動會》和赴北京拍攝京劇名伶梅蘭芳演出的紀錄片。孫中山北伐期間，黎先生曾赴前線拍攝紀錄片《建國史的一頁》（1941年再剪輯成《勳業千秋》）。1926年，黎民偉往上海創辦民新影片股份有限公司，在電影題材和技術上進行積極的探索，拍攝了《西廂記》（1927）、《木蘭從軍》（1928）等影片。1930年他與羅明佑、吳性栽等合組聯華影業製片印刷有限公司（上海），民新併入成為聯華一廠，培育了如阮玲玉、金燄、黎莉莉、陳燕燕等一代影星，拍攝了不少中國經典電影。戰後回港，黎民偉亦參與建設永華電影製片廠有限公司，擔任片廠的洗印技術顧問。
Mr Lai Man Wai
1893-1953
Producer
A trailblazer in Chinese film history, Lai Man Wai was active in the early decades of the 20th century, an era synonymous with the dawn of Hong Kong cinema. Together with his brothers, Lai Hoi Shan and Lai Buk Hoi, he founded the New World Cinema and China Sun Motion Picture Company. He was involved in the production of Hong Kong’s first short feature film, Chuang Tzu Tests His Wife (1914), as well as the city’s first full-length feature, Rouge (1925). Lai was also a pioneering documentarist who, in 1923, went to Japan to record the Sixth Far Eastern Championship Games, and to Beijing to film a performance by Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang. During the Northern Expedition, a military campaign led by Chiang Kai-Shek in the 1920s, Lai travelled to the front line to shoot footage that was subsequently edited into the documentary A Page of History in 1941. In 1926, Lai founded China Sun Shanghai. The studio explored different subjects and filming techniques, and produced epics such as Way Down West (1927) and Mulan Joins the Army (1928). In 1930, China Sun became Lianhua Studios through a merger. Lianhua nurtured a generation of actors, including Ruan Lingyu, Jin Yan, Li Lili and Chen Yanyan, and made dozens of classics of Chinese cinema.
