Screening 8.75mm

As part of the Orphan Film Symposium session Moving Image Technologies at Work, in Asia, NYU scholar Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang and Dino Everett, archivist at the University of Southern California, present “Thinking Out of Sync: A Demonstration of the Chinese Obsolete Film Format 8.75mm.” Using a newly refurbished machine, they will project 8.75mm film prints of News Report ’72 No. 45 (新闻简报72年45号) and a 1973 production from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.  Rural Film Projection: China’s 8.75mm Cinema Revolution by Chenghao Wen and Yangyang Xu (NYU Cinema Studies) In the annals of Chinese cinematic exhibition history, there exists a uniquely