The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films | Atlas Obscura
Used as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public. Source: The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films | Atlas Obscura
Used as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public. Source: The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films | Atlas Obscura
Few people ever saw the images of China girls, although for decades they were ubiquitous in movie theaters. At the beginning of a reel of film, there would be a few frames of a woman’s head. She might be dressed … Continued
Nitrate motion picture film, or celluloid, was the original medium for Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Casablanca, and The Wizard of Oz—not to mention thousands of other movies screened before 1951, including practically … Continued