Scenes of Life in YanAn「延安內貌」 1 The original positive 35mm print of the first newsreel (14 mins.) shot in YanAn in 1938, in which Mao ZeDong is filmed for the first time. Lin Cang 林蒼& Xu TianXiang 徐天翔 (production, direction), Jin Kun 金崑 (camera). Filmed around March 1938 under the auspices of the China Wartime Film Research Association, but not publicly screened until 1941. Photographs of the Long March are very rare, as are those of its endpoint in YanAn, the communist base of Northwest China in ShaanXi 陝西 province. Moving pictures are even rarer. And rarer still is this exceptional film, in which for the first time ever, in motion on the screen, Mao ZeDong may be seen along with other Chinese Communist leaders, including Liu ShaoQi, Ding Ling, Luo RuiJing, and Kang Sheng. 「延安內貌」「YanAn NeiMao」「 Scenes of Life in YanAn」 is a nitrate-base 35-mm film, 14 minutes in length with no direct sound recording. When it was edited, three revolutionary songs of the time were added (the third being unidentified):「三大紀律八項注意」 ; and 「軍民大生產」which became 「邊區十唱」and would be integrated into 「東方紅」. In 1974, a member of the production crew, a filmmaker from HongKong, parted with this nitrate and explained that the negative and all working prints had been lost, and that this nitrate was therefore probably unique. Nitrates require special conservation methods. So a 35 mm safety internegative was produced as well as a 4K digital version. This digital version, in the attached demonstrationfile (available by clicking the present yellow colour hyperlink) is divided diagonally to make possible to compare in this e-catalogue the raw nitrate with the stabilized and recalibrated restoration. The title appears in the catalogue of the HongKong cinémathèque, but all there is in their collections is a VHS cassette with no sound track. In China it was impossible to track this very rare film down, and there was no sign of it on the internet. Nor can the film be found, either screenable or simple archived, at any of the dedicated memorial sites of the History of Chinese communism. It has thus yet to be made known and available for any historical or even official purposes. A brochure held by Princeton University contains the first printed allusion to the film. The publication's main subject is ManJiangHong「滿江紅」, but two of its pages describe the particularly rare newsreel「 延安內貌」 YanAn NeiMao. 15