2023 is the 70th anniversary of the victory in resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea. Shanghai Radio and Television has specially launched the documentary "Shangganling" to commemorate it. The documentary is divided into three episodes, each about 50 minutes, and comprehensively tells the most famous Battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The film is a project funded by the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation and jointly produced by the Shanghai Radio and Television Documentary Center, BesTV Network Television Technology Development Co., Ltd., and Bilibili. It will be broadcast every Tuesday night at 22:00 starting from January 2, 2024. It is broadcast on Dragon TV and simultaneously on BesTV iptv/Internet TV/cable TV big screen and Bilibili.
Exclusive images of the day the battle at Shangganling began were released for the first time
The Battle of Shangganling was a classic battle in which the Chinese People's Volunteers defeated the extremely weak with the extremely weak. Over the years, there have been some film and television works reflecting the Battle of Shangganling that are well known to the Chinese people, but the real historical images left by the Battle of Shangganling are very rare. In 2023, the director team of the documentary "Shangganling" searched archival institutions around the world and finally found a film file record in the U.S. National Archives. It was marked as October 14, 1952, the day the Battle of Shangganling broke out. The 7th Infantry Division of the US Army Image of somewhere in North Korea. After digital conversion of the film, the directors were pleasantly surprised to find that the 10-minute original film not only captured footage of the US bombardment of the Shangganling area on the day the war began, but also recorded the wounded soldiers at the US military field medical station and the mountains of US artillery shells. Shell, this shows the fierce fighting situation at that time.
The mountain of shell casings piled up by the U.S. military on the first day of the war at Shangganling
The documentary "Shangganling" uses many precious historical images from the Central News Documentary Film Studio that reflect the battles and lives of the volunteers during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. At the same time, with the assistance of the Shanghai Audio and Video Archives, the director team also purchased from overseas news about the "Battle of Triangle Mountain" from the Associated Press at that time (note: the United States called the Battle of Shangganling the Battle of Triangle Mountain) and the South Korean army's attack on the North Mountain of 537.7 Highland. Battle news, these newly discovered real images of different stages of the Battle of Shangganling are presented for the first time in the documentary "Shangganling".
Searching for overseas archival cultural relics Interpretation from an international perspective
In addition to domestic filming and interviews, the documentary crew of "Shangganling" also traveled to South Korea, Russia, and the United States to search for story clues and archival materials. The director team obtained a batch of precious archival materials and battlefield photos related to the Battle of Shangganling through descendants of veterans and military history experts in the United States, adding many vivid details. In order to tell the story of the very classic artillery battle of the Volunteer Army in the Battle of Shangganling, the film crew not only photographed various types of artillery used by the Volunteer Army at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, but also went to the Central Russian Armed Forces Museum in Moscow to photograph the BM-13 rocket launcher. It is the famous "Katyusha", and I interviewed Russian experts to tell the story behind it. Since the Shangganling area is still a military restricted area, in the summer of 2023, the film crew also followed the descendants of the volunteer army martyrs and a team of volunteer experts to pay homage at the border between North and South Korea, recording touching moments.
Descendants of volunteers and military history experts went to the border between South Korea and North Korea to pay homage to the martyrs of Shangganling
Wang Lijun, director of the Documentary Center of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, said: "The documentary "Shangganling" is a comprehensive presentation of the Battle of Shangganling. It has both a macro narrative and a detailed description. , it not only introduces weapons and equipment, but also displays spiritual aspects. Moreover, in addition to Chinese historical materials and interviews, foreign archival materials and interviews are also appropriately added, reflecting the international perspective of the documentary. "
Movie-level audio-visual elements" Reappearance of "Shangganling"
The main battlefield of the Battle of Shangganling was two small highlands of only 3.7 square kilometers, with an altitude of less than 600 meters. In order to more intuitively show the terrain and battle details at that time, the documentary "Shangganling" invited a team that had participated in the special effects production of the movie "Changjin Lake" to create a three-dimensional sand table and a real-life three-dimensional reproduction of some battle scenes. The director team also teamed up with the special effects team to apply virtual motion capture technology commonly used in game production to the documentary, and invited professional military action actors to reproduce the innovative tactics "making dumplings" and "air bombing" invented by volunteer veterans in the Battle of Shangganling.
Virtual motion capture technology restores the tactics of the Volunteer Army
In terms of sound production, the documentary "Shangganling" invited a team that specializes in sound effects for military movies to create movie-level sound effects for various weapons and battle scenes that appear in the documentary. At the same time, the documentary is inspired by the popular episode "My Motherland" in the old movie "Shangganling", and uses different orchestrations to perform as the theme music of the documentary, arousing the memories and emotions of the Battle of Shangganling in the hearts of generations of people.
brings together young people to pay tribute to youth.
The director team of the documentary "Shangganling" are all born in the 80s and 90s. In this creation, the directors also visited and filmed many young people and the stories of "Shangganling". They each used their own talents to Different methods are involved in the creation of documentaries. For example, miniature models are made to restore the classic tunnel battles in Shangganling; the tactics of the Volunteer Army are restored through three-dimensional simulation and virtual motion capture technology; shooting games are used to recreate the style of the Volunteer Army's sharpshooters; comics are used to recreate the stories of heroes, etc.
Made a tunnel model to reproduce the "tunnel battle" in Shangganling
Sun Jiayi, a post-80s girl, is the initiator of the "I Come to Find Relatives for Martyrs" public welfare project. In recent years, she has led a team of volunteers to find relatives of martyrs Wang Wancheng and Zhu Youguang who died in the Battle of Shangganling. The documentary crew also followed them to the martyrs' hometowns and recorded many touching stories.
Searching for the relatives of martyr Wang Wancheng
Volunteers sent the portrait of martyr Zhu Youguang back to his hometown
Zhu Hong, deputy secretary of the Party branch of the Shanghai Radio and Television Documentary Center and chief producer of the documentary "Shangganling", said: "Many of the martyrs who died in the Battle of Shangganling were At the time of youth, the documentary "Shangganling" also adds the perspective of contemporary young people, paying tribute to youth with youth, telling everyone that young people more than 70 years later have not forgotten history or heroes."
Author: Wang Yan
Text: Wang Yantu: smg photo editor: Xu Yang Editor: Xing Xiaofang
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