{"id":133299,"date":"2017-04-19T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/the-rise-and-fall-of-china-girls.html"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:28:39","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-china-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/the-rise-and-fall-of-china-girls.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of China Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China Girls were faces (usually women, always white) used as unseen color calibration images in the leader of movie films, to confirm that the film had been printed and processed correctly. In this digital age, they&#39;re beginning to disappear, but this article provides a fascinating look into pictures never meant to be seen by the public but of critical importance for projectionists and studios.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/6sF9WzbBGz8pwbwcECShEcHY7qTH7n4Go6-ylY-VWeYt6oxX5bTyqcZT2LbkMSL62uLf0X5JrnN8zXgflfQBoQBIkpuZVcPSXsxphFJgCRFEpfkphgxKOtEadcpiuCfMpqeYuxXblefM37FFi9D6pRL_17g9jpqBnbxo7jhk9ha0s63sXb3H_DJaFz2kKwoePq6-xo4-2acgIaArgLCt-XMt-4euufcK3ey5I1D8Uc082zIOtB4ded43ZCVv8aos9FABzSsCCeCOqHkQDO7BbXovQRVOyFW9_Y37nMV7SRhRiVY=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films'>The Forgotten &#8216;China Girls&#8217; Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nUsed as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6BVjabita4G'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Girls were faces (usually women, always white) used as unseen color calibration images in the leader of movie films, to confirm that the film had been printed and processed correctly. 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