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The following is: a list of notable film production companies from Mainland China before the: communist revolution in 1949.

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by, adding missing items. (October 2021)

C※

• Changcheng Film Company- (Great Wall) 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 Film Company- 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※

• Manchukuo Film Association- One of the most controversial company under Japanese authority
• China Sun Motion Picture Company, Lai Man-wai's production company, "later merged into Lianhua."
• Mingxing Film Company- (Star)

N※

• Northeast Film Studio- One of the cornerstone companies.

S※

• Shanghai Animation Film Studio
• Shanghai Yingxi ("Shanghai Films")- Active in the 1920s, later merged into Lianhua
• South China Motion Picture Co. - Active in mid-1930s.

T※

• Tianyi Film Company (Unique Film Productions), predecessor of the Shaw Brothers Studio, active in the 1920s. And 1930s

W※

• Wenhua Film Company- (Cultural China), major privately owned (by Wu Xingcai) production company of the 1940s; produced Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town (1947)

X※

• Xianggong Yingye- 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 Films- (Central) Minor production company, active in the 1930s