五十年代經歷過數次武俠浪潮的起跌：峨嵋劍俠傳式飛劍特技興旺一輪，輪到黃飛鴻的南派武俠片稱雄一時。黃飛鴻系列後勁不繼，射鵰英雄傳的新派武俠卻又掩至。這幾個流派的武俠片，背後都有其特別一種武俠小說作其創作根源。五十年代武俠片的興衰，反映著武俠小說的發展和變化。

There were ebbs and flows in the jianghu of the martial arts cinema of the 1950s: Emei swordmen’s daggers and stunts predominated for a while, then giving way to the fists and kicks of the Southern Master Wong Fei-hung. While the tide of Wong Fei-hung subsided, the neo-martial arts of the eagle-shooting hero emerged. Each of these different streams of wuxia cinema indeed has its origins in wuxia fiction. The rise and fall of the martial arts cinema of the 1950s will be read in juxtaposition with the genealogy of martial arts fiction in the seminar conducted by our expert from the Hong Kong Film Archive.