Clips from the film, 'Sweet Dream - The Deathly Lulluby'(미몽)

This is some clips from the film, 'Sweet Dream - The Deathly Lulluby (Korean; 미몽- 죽음의 자장가)', the oldest surviving korean film, Produced in 1936, Starring Ye-Bong Moon, the most well-known actress of 1930s, as the heroine of this picture.

The plot is Simple(or somewhat cut-and-dried). A rich heirless named Ae-Soon Kim(Ye-Bong Moon) becomes fatigued on her husband (Sun-Ok Yoo) and her family. She runs away from her home with her lover(Inn Kim). But later she finds out that her lover (introduced himself as son of a high official) was just an imposter. She calls the police, and he was sent to jail.

But she doesn't come back home, instead she finds another man (Taek-Won Cho) that will make her 'satisfied'. But When she and her new lover ride a taxi to go to the Hotel, the taxi run over a girl - Ae-Soon's daughter - and kills her. Feeling guilty and remorsed, Ae-Soon finally drinks poison and dies.

The film was presumed lost until 2006, but by that year, The National Film Archive of China found this film with some japanese movies. This print was made for Premiere in Manchuria Kingdom in 1938, so Japanese Intertitles can be seen.

Being neglected for over 60 years, the film's quality is extremely poor, but This film is INVALUABLE as being the Oldest surviving Korean film.

(Note: The First Korean movie was made in 1919, but no film of that era (1919 - 1935) survived - even a single still photograph - , as The Korea National Film Archive was burnt in a fire during The Korean War. The 488 films from that time are completely lost now.)

The Film's original running time is approximately 47 minutes. I edited the film by myself, but You should know that I didn't arranged clips in original sequence order or plot.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 1936
• Korean-Film
• B&W

[LemmingAttack]

@tongyeok 1936 is when the movie was made

[vstasov]

Great archiving.

[naniwa]

Absolutely priceless!

Thank you very much.

[eatallday0713]

Invaluable material.

[eatallday0713]

What I notice immediately is how close, though not identical, they sound like North Koreans today. This leads me to think that it may be South Korea that has changed more in spoken language than North Korea. I have not taken into consideration of the variety of regional dialects.

[jaggingxyy]

this movie....when korea was part of japan.

[etahanihc]

thank you very much for your really interesting videos!!

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and your good taste for art and music ist also adorable!

i was looking for interesting rare old cultural treasures...

and i came across your videos.. really great videos! thanks again and please keep doing it, good luck+best wishes

[AlucardsQuest]

The dialect and manner of speaking is strikingly similar to Japanese.

[tongyeok]

gosh what year is this..they still write hanja in the classroom...