The Live Performance of Turning Point of the Youngsters Accompanying a Live Band and an on-Stage Narrator at the Korean Film Archive

A scene of the live performance of Turning Point of the Youngsters (Dir. Ahn Jong-hwa, 1934) with a live band and an on-stage narrator in 2008. Turning Point of the Youngsters is the oldest surviving Korean feature film, which became known to the world in July 2007 when a private collector who briefly operated Dansungsa theater after liberation donated an original nitrate negative film to the Korean Film Archive. Since then, the Korean Film Archive planned a performance accompanying an on-stage narrator and a live band to restore not only the film but also the movie viewing environment of the silent film era. This live performance was premiered in 2008 to celebrate the relocation of the Korean Film Archive building in Sangam-dong. Director Kim Tae-yong was in charge of directing the performance, and actor Jo Hee-bong was in charge of film narrator.