According to the seminar held by the Science Fiction Training Camp organized by the China Research Institute for Science Popularization and the Science and Imagination Center of Southern University of Science and Technology, the history of Chinese Sci-Fi films can be traced back to The Invisibility Cloak, produced by Happy Pictures in 1925. It came out 14 years earlier than the premiere of Shanghai Beach in Sixty Years Later (1939), which is commonly considered to be the pioneering work of Chinese science fiction films. The Invisibility Cloak was created under the influence of American Keystone's comedies (slapstick) and science fiction about invisibility, which also bears the imprint of traditional Chinese comics. Therefore, it can become a valuable subject of a cross-genre, cross-cultural, and time-transgressive science fiction research, enriching the aesthetics of Sci-Fi films.

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