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Manchu Love
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Wikipedia article
'Manchu Love' is a 1929 MGM short silent historical fiction film short in two-color Technicolor. The film features a cast entirely of people of Asian descent and stars Sojinas Su Shun and Etta Lee as Empress Tzu Hsi.Slide, Anthony. 'The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry'. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998. p. 87. Accessed 19 May 2021. It was the ninth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.
Production
The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood. Director Elmer Clifton was paid $1000.00 for his work on this film and 'Light of India', a later entry in the series.Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". 'Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film'. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38. The art direction and color supervision by Natalie Kalmus drew significant praise despite the project having one of the lowest budgets in the "Great Events" series.
Preservation Status
This film has survived in its entirety. A complete print was preserved by the Cinema Arts Laboratory in 1993 and is held in the archives at the George Eastman House.Layton and Pierce 342 It was screened as recently as 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art's Roy and Niuta Titus Theater for a presentation by authors James Layton and David Pierce.[https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1095 The Dawn of Technicolor: The Silent Era]. 'Museum of Modern Art'. Accessed April 12, 2020.
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