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TAIPEI TAIWAN 16mm HOME MOVIE SHOT BY AMERICAN SERVICEMAN REPUBLIC OF CHINA 83954 (1948)

1948 · Short film · 36 min

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Shot by a U.S. serviceman, this 16mm silent home movie shows rare footage of Taiwan and likely dates to 1948 or 1949. At the time, Taiwan had just emerged from an era where it was a Japanese colony for fifty years (1895-1945). A new era was beginning with the dramatic finale to the Chinese Civil War, with Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist forces retreating to the island after their defeat on the mainland. The footage in the film provides a rare look at the immediate postwar era in Taiwan, with the…

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36 minutes

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