LHMC: Southern Screen – December, 1975

The December 1975 issue of Shaw Brothers-owned film fan magazine “Southern Screen” featured a Christmas special with festive images of studio screen idols including Li Ching, Tanny and Ching Li. Betty Ting Pei, the actress whose home Bruce Lee died in, continued to exploit her loose association with the star by appearing with Bruce Lee look-alike and MIGHTY PEKING MAN star Danny Lee. A leading story in this issue was Chang Cheh’s historical epic MARCO POLO, starring American actor Richard Harrison in a rare example of a Caucasian lead in a Hong Kong movie. Poster art for this film and for the 1975 Shaw drama CUTIES PARADE can be found on the back cover.

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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.