对中国第一部短故事片《难夫难妻》几个问题的质疑与考证

摘要

The year of 1913 saw the production of the first Chinese featurette DiE For MarriagE by Asia Movie Company,and its release in New Stage,September 29. With Zhengqiu Zheng as screenwriter and Zhengqiu Zheng and Shichuan Zhang as joint directors,and featuring a group of modern dram( or Civili-zation Play)actors and/or actresses,the featurette takes the customs of mercenary marriage of Chaozhou, the native place of the writer as its subject matter. However,owing to the loss of its copies and stage pho-tos,its descriptions in Chinese film history have been incomprehensive,contradictory to one another and even with obvious fallacies for many years. On the basis of sorting out the relevant data about it,the au-thor of the present paper has made queries and examinations on the descriptions concerning DiE For Mar-riagEin various editions of Chinese film history so as to rectify errors and offer necessary supplements.%1913年亚细亚影戏公司出品的影片《难夫难妻》是中国第一部短故事片，于当年9月29日在新新舞台上映。影片由郑正秋编剧，郑正秋与张石川联合导演。影片以郑正秋的家乡潮州的封建买卖婚姻习俗为题材，由一班文明戏演员出演。但由于影片的拷贝和剧照等资料佚失，致使中国电影史多年来对该片相关情况的描述或有失全面，或相互矛盾，甚至有明显谬误之处。笔者在梳理现有相关资料的基础上，对各个版本的中国电影史论著中有关《难夫难妻》情况的描写进行质疑与考证，以纠错补遗，查缺补漏。