China National Film Museum
Cinema landmark holding over thirty thousand film artifacts across twenty halls tracing a century of moviemaking.
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This guide to the China National Film Museum in Beijing traces back to the autumn of 1905, when photo-studio owner Ren Qingtai persuaded the aging opera star Tan Xinpei to perform scenes from Dingjun Mountain in front of a hand-cranked camera. The film premiered that December at the Daguanlou Theater in Beijing's old Dashilar quarter, with Tan in full costume singing arias he had performed his whole career. The museum's twenty exhibition halls hold more than thirty thousand objects from the century that followed.
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