식민지 조선의 발성영화 상영에 대한 역사적 연구

A Historical Study on Talkie Screenings in Colonial Korea

The advent of the first talkie the Story of Chunhyang in colonial Koreain 1935 has played the role of a historical turning point to create a newchapter of Korean film history. In this paper, however, paying attention tothe fact that the Story of Chunhyang did not make appearance in thecolonial Korean film scene all of a sudden, I concentrate on the talkiescreenings in colonial Korea. That is why I expand the time for myresearch from 1926 when a talkie was firstly introduced, to 1930 whencolonial Korean theaters started to establish the talkie system, and to 1936when Japanese theaters equipped with the talkie system in colonial Koreabecame the three biggest theaters in the Kyŏngsŏng entertainment scene. I suggest that the practice of colonial Korean talkies should be understoodin the relationship between Western cinema and Japanese cinema. Inaddition, both introduction of the talkie system and the attempts toproduce talkies went simultaneously in the colonial Korean entertainmentscene. Especially, I discover a new fact that the PKR sound systemdeveloped by Lee Pil-woo is not a recording system for the production ofthe Story of Chunhyang, but a talkie screening system. For probing into the practice of talkies in colonial Korean cinema, Iinvestigate cinematic culture including film discourses and screeningspaces, besides the history of Korean film production, and also employcomparative film history which I set up colonial Korean cinema withinthe triangle structure of Western cinema and Japanese cinema. This research method will be meaningful in the academic field of Korean film history.