A china girl is a type of test film, an image of a woman, a man, an animal, an item or a pop culture character accompanied by color bars that appears for a few frames in the reel leader. A "China Girl" was used by the lab technician for calibration purposes when processing the film. The origin of the term is a matter of some dispute but is usually accepted to be a reference to the models used to create the frames: either they were actually china (porcelain) mannequins or the make-up worn by the live models made them appear to be mannequins.

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