Yungang Film Hall_Yungang Grottoes

Yungang Film Hall is located on the south side of Li Fo Avenue. It was officially opened to the public in August 2018. Above the entrance of the film hall is flying apsaras holding Pipa with Yungang characteristics. Both sides of flying apsaras are decorated by lotus, and the gate pillars are masonry made of waste stone. The entire archway combines Yungang characteristics, environmental protection concepts, and ancient stone carving art together.

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The back hall

The front hall

The back hall

The seats replaced by old cinemas are used in the back hall of the film and television hall. Although some of them are old, they complement the environment with the simple architectural style and old cameras. In the film and television hall, the propaganda film "Yungang Grottoes", which was shot when the world cultural heritage was declared in 2001, is played every day for about 14 minutes. It mainly introduces the excavation history of Yungang Grottoes and the characteristics of Grottoes in various periods.

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The front hall

In the front hall are displayed six domestic fixed movie projectors used in large professional cinemas in the 1950s and 1980s, 11 domestic mobile movie projectors in the 1950s and 1980s, and three domestic automatic slide projectors in the 1960s and 1980s.

In the first wall display cabinet are displayed Beijing brand black-and-white TV sets produced in Tianjin in 1970, small TV sets, video cameras, video players, video recorders of the 1980s and promotional CDs of Yungang in different periods.

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In the second wall display cabinet, there are 35mm hand operated silent projectors produced in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, 8mm electric silent projectors produced in the United States in the 1940s, 8.75mm sound film projectors produced in China in the 1950s, and 16mm Jinggangshan brand mobile film projectors produced in China in the 1960s.

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Inside the three wall mounted display cabinets are cameras made in Germany in the 1920s, electric cameras made in Japan, portable cameras made in the United States and documentary film copies of Premier Zhou accompanying Pompidou to visit Datong, Yungang Grottoes and Premier Zhou caring about Yungang Grottoes.

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Inside the four wall type display cabinets are peony, Hongmei brand 120 cameras, washing cameras and playing cameras produced in China in the 1970s. Precious old photos of Yungang Grottoes in the 1920s and 1930s.

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In the wall display cabinet 5, there are thematic slides of Yungang Grottoes in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s, large-scale slide projector and teaching projector made in Germany in the 1930s.

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