Abstract
'Film' is a visual medium and an assemblage of social activities. Also film reflects director's message and the housing culture of those days. Architecture represented on the screen express opinions and feelings of the public and demonstrate the ways people have put meaning on the notions of the home, domestic culture, public spaces, and so forth. This study starts with these 'visuality' and 'cultural characteristics' of films. This paper will focus on the 18-Korean-films, which contain the 'Images of Apartment Housing', in 1930~60s called 'the early stage of Korean apartment culture'. With shot analyses of the films and related materials, this paper has an objective on how the film director interpreted and used the apartment architecture as cinematic elements, and how the images of apartment housing were represented in their films.