China girl

English Noun ~ en US film A moving or still image of a woman or mannequin, used by film processing technicians to calibrate colour balance and exposure of skin tones in reproduction.Lane Relyea, Thomas Beard and Eric Crosby, Ordinary Pictures, Minneapolis, MI: Walker Art Center, 2016, p. 120. en 1993 Scott MacDonald (media scholar) Scott MacDonald Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies 60 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1715119M/Avant-garde_film A final group of Hollywood’s usually invisible working class is introduced in Fisher’s comments about the use of the China Girl, the images of women dressed in multicolored clothes that are often seen on heads and tails of reels of film. The China Girl’s function is to act as a color-control standard: The skin-tone of white skin is the norm against which other colors are measured. en 2000 Bret Stern How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000 172 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7274698M/How_to_Shoot_a_Feature_Film_for_Under_10_000_(And_Not_Go_to_Jail) It is really amazing how easily colorists can screw up the look of your film with a few misconceptions about proper skin tones and by using the dreaded china girl. (A china girl is a pasty white specimen of a girl that a colorist uses as a reference when balancing the colors on your film.) en 2013 Rachel Kushner The Flamethrowers (Kushner novel) Flamethrowers 6 86 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28519875M/Flamethrowers If the curtains in a film looked tennis-ball chartreuse and not some paler shade of yellow, it made no difference to the viewer. There was no original set of curtains they needed to resemble. Flesh is different. Flesh needs to resemble flesh. It has a norm, a referent: the China girl. Curtains can be acid-bright but not faces. And if faces look wrong, we question everything. en slang street name The opioid drug fentanyl.Paul Dickson, Slang, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 163; Richard Isralowitz, Drug Use: A Reference Handbook, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, 2004, p. 252. en horticulture Name given to cultivars of various tree, shrub and plant species, including dogwood, holly, orchids, etc. en attributively with reference to hair Straight, glossy, cut short, with a fringe / bangs. en 1987 Paul Allman No Pain, No Gain 4 24 https://archive.org/details/nopainnogain0000paul/page/24/mode/1up?q=%22China+girl%22 Her hair was black and straight, cut in a demure China girl cut that didn’t quite match her aggressive looks. en 2002 James Flint (novelist) James Flint 52 Ways to Magic America 223 https://archive.org/details/52waystomagicame0000flin/page/223/mode/1up?q=%22China+girl%22 when she was on her own she had to remove her contacts and don the chestnut brown ‘China Girl’ wig that was the centrepiece of her daily disguise. en 2004 Joel Barraquiel Tan Edmund White and Donald Weise Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction Rondo 282 https://archive.org/details/freshmennewvoice0000whit/page/281/mode/1up?q=%22China+girl%22 Rondo’s also over-the-top fem. Like Richard Simmons queeny, but the Chicano version with an asymmetrical China-girl bob. Any of various cocktails. en offensive dated ethnic slur A young woman of Chinese (or other East Asian) descent. en Chinaman References