A Daughter’s Recollection: Sound and Color in Sun Mingjing’s Silent b/w Films. The Paradox of a Docu...

<jats:p>Whenever I heard people mention that “most of Sun Mingjing’s film were silent and black &amp; white,” the statement always came as a shock to me, very hard to accept. In fact, many viewers of Sun’s films in Nanking still remember the vivid sound and colorfulness of his films. What brought about this discrepancy? I searched my memory and found that my impressions were probably from the way my father showed his films. He would often lead people into singing a relevant song to create the right atmosphere, then he would make commentary himself with a witness’s precision and a storyteller’s vivid language.</jats:p>