Photo Essay: Chinese Cinema Museum
Photo Essay: Chinese Cinema Museum
In the ancient village that we went to last Saturday, there was a Chinese Cinema Museum. Perhaps this should have been posted on the Classic Cinema group. I had been to this village previously, but my camera broke down so I couldn’t get the photos I wanted. However, here you go.
1 The entrance to the Cinema Museum.
2 I remember projectors that looked like this.
3 But I don't remember anything that looked like this. Perhaps it's an editing machine.
4 Posters to advertise their films.
5 I had an 8 mm camera like the one on the right.
6 Some other old vintage items.
7 She must have been an actress in the Peking Opera - perhaps they filmed it.
8 This was a monster of a projector.
9 Could be a Chinese femme fatale.
10 This seems like a pretty modern form of projector, but of course it is for film.
11 Speaking film. Up until a few decades ago, the Chinese film was a weird size between 10 mm and 35 mm, because the government did not want people to watch foreign films, so all the equipment for taking movies and showing them was built to that strange specification. Nowadays western films are shown in movie theatres and DVDs of them are sold everywhere.
12 A typical vintage movie theatre. Today there are multiple screen cinemas in shopping malls that show regular, 3 D and even 4 D movies. The only time in the almost 10 years I've been in a movie theatre here was to go see the final Hobbit movie, in 4 D. Not only do you have to wear the usual 3 D glasses, but the seat shakes when there's an earthquake on screen. And when water splashes on screen or there's a rainstorm you get a fine spray from the seat ahead, and if there is a surprise in the action, you get punched in the back by your seat back.
13 Okay, the lights have dimmed. That's all folks...
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