Take a trip back in time to Hong Kong, 1976 to see what all the stars of Shaw Brothers’ celebrated film studio were up as photographed and written about within the pages of Shaw’s monthly fan magazine “Southern Screen” in our latest installment in the Linn Haynes Memorial Collection. Among the many topics covered in this complete issue is the wedding of studio leading man Yueh Hua (THE MONKEY GOES WEST) to rising actress Tanny (THE BATTLE WIZARD). Coverage continues on actress Betty Ting Pei’s scandalous biopic BRUCE LEE AND I. Famed kung fu moviemaker Lau Kar-leung discusses Hung Fist kung fu. Law Chun’s fantasy horror film THE SNAKE PRINCE, starring Ti Lung is previewed. As usual, most text is in Chinese and is accompanied by lots of interesting color and black and white glamour photos, movie stills and behind-the-scenes images.
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The Linn Haynes Memorial Collection is a compilation of rare Asian film memorabilia from the golden age of kung fu cinema (1970-1985) presented as tribute to the late kung fu movie scholar Linn Haynes. Contained herein is a growing repository of long out-of-print Hong Kong film magazines in their entirety, featuring images and articles (occasionally bilingual) about the actors, filmmakers and their films from this bygone era. As bonus, LHMC will periodically include rare lobby card art from a variety of classic kung fu movies.
About Southern Screen
“Southern Screen” was a glossy monthly movie periodical published by Shaw Brothers from 1957 through the mid-’80s. Its content consisted largely of upcoming films, actor profiles, gossip, and news originating from the Shaw Brothers studio at Clearwater Bay. It began as a 200-page magazine and gradually shrunk to approximately 80 pages. The magazine was distributed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Australia, India, Korea, North and South America, France, and Britain.
“Southern Screen” was only one of several movie magazines published by Shaw Brothers. Others included English-language periodical “Movie News,” which ran from 1948 through the late 1980s, “Yue Lok Poh,” and “Hong Kong Movie News,” which ran from 1966 until the studio shut down its film production unit in the mid-1980s.
About Linn Haynes (1974-2008)
Bobby Linn Haynes passed away on February 28th, 2008 at the age of 33. He was a well-respected kung fu film scholar and consultant, as well as Kung Fu Cinema’s Community Relations Manager. He was well known within the kung fu fandom community as a knowledgeable expert on classic kung fu movies. He was a freelance writer, a consultant to various DVD distributors, a DVD commentator, and an avid collector of comics, videos and books. This collection of rare movie memorabilia is provided to the public as a tribute to Linn’s great contribution to the kung fu movie fan community all around the world.
Credits
This feature collection is provided courtesy of Dr. Carolyn Halladay and Terrence Brady, who together have contributed complete, high-resolution scans of various “Southern Screen” and “Cinemart” issues. The collection is also provided courtesy of Brian Dyer, who contributed lobby card art.
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