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==External Links==
==External Links==
* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_%28film_term%29 China Girl (film term)]
* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_%28film_term%29 China Girl (film term)]
* [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/OCTO_a_00228#.V9h__rWUiHo ''China Girls on the Margin of Film''] by Genevieve Yue
* [http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/projects/leaderladies/ Gallery of leader ladies]
* [http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/projects/leaderladies/ Gallery of leader ladies]
* [https://www.facebook.com/leaderladies?ref=hl/ China Girls-Leader Ladies Facebook page]
* [https://www.facebook.com/leaderladies?ref=hl/ China Girls-Leader Ladies Facebook page]
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* [http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/china-girls-leading-ladies-actual-women/ Moving Image Archive gallery]
* [http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/china-girls-leading-ladies-actual-women/ Moving Image Archive gallery]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nVBDX3P5TY/ Short film from the Harvard Film Archive featuring various leader ladies]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nVBDX3P5TY/ Short film from the Harvard Film Archive featuring various leader ladies]
* [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/OCTO_a_00228#.V9h__rWUiHo ''China Girls on the Margin of Film''] by Genevieve Yue
 


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Revision as of 20:37, 20 September 2016


Leader ladies (also called china girls) are the photographs of (most often) women that sometimes appear in film countdown leader. Their images were used by film lab workers setting color timing or black and white density. Often appearing on exhibition prints but rarely seen on screen by an audience, images of leader ladies have long been collected by archivists, projectionists and film lab employees. The below links provide some history on leader ladies as well as various image galleries.

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