List of Chinese film production companies (pre-PRC)

The following is a list of notable film production companies from Mainland China (including Hong Kong) before the Communist takeover in 1949.

C

*Chengchang Film Company- Active in the 1920s

D

*Dadi Film Company- (Great Earth), Hong Kong production company active between 1939-1940 that focused on Mandarin-language films, founded by Cai Chusheng and Situ Huimin
*Datong Film Company- (Great Harmony), Major privately owned production company of the 1940s
*Dazhonghua- (Great China), first major production company to emerge in post-war Hong Kong, focused on Mandarin-language films
*Dazhonghua Baihe- Major production company of the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua
*Diantong Film Company- Leftist film company active from 1934-1935. Only produced four films.

G

*Guohua Productions- Founded in the late 1930s by former Mingxing director Zhang Shichuan, major rival of Xinhua Film Company during the "Solitary Island" period

H

*Huamei Film Company- (China-America Film), early production company founded by American Benjamin Brodsky in Hong Kong. Only produced one film, Lai Man-Wai's landmark 1913 film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife.

K

*Kunlun Film Company- (Mount Kunlun Pictures), Major privately-owned production company in the 1940s, produced the 1949 anti-GMD film Crows and Sparrows

L

*Lianhua Film Company

M

*Minhua Film Company- Produced Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town (1947)
*Minxin Film Company- (China Sun), Lai Manwei's production company, later merged into Lianhua.
*Mingxing Film Company- (Star)

S

*Shanghai Yingxi- Active in the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua

T

*Tianyi Film Company- (First), early production company of the Shaw Brothers, active in the 1920s and 1930s

W

*Wenhua Pictures- (Cultural China), major privately-owned (by Wu Xingcai) production company of the 1940s

X

*Xianggong Yingye- (Hong Kong Films), active in the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua
*Xibei Film Company
*Xin Shidai Film Company- Produced Situ Humin's 1938 The Blood Spilt in the Treasure Mountain City.
*Xinhua Film Company- (New China), leftist film company, active in the 1930s and 1940s

Y

*Yihua Film Company- Active in the 1930s, produced Leftist films
*Yiji Film Company

Z

*Zhongyang- Minor production company, active in the 1930s