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5/10/2015 Rediscovered wartime documentary premieres China.org.cn Esperanto | 한국어 | BIG5 | ﻋﺭﺑﻲ | 中文 | Français | Deutsch | 日本語 | Русский язык | Español Register | Sign In This Site China Wiki City Guide China Archives Mobile RSS Newsletter Sunday, May 10, 2015 Beijing, Moderate to heavy rain, 55 °F Home China World Business Environment Arts Sports Travel Opinion Photos Video Top 10 双语 Learning Chinese Forum Hot Topics: • 2015 Met Gala • Beijing Int'l Music Festival • 5th Beijing Int'l Film Festival • 'Nature Is Speaking' You are here: Home > Arts > Movies & TV Most Viewed ›› Rediscovered wartime documentary premieres 1 Victory Day parade held in Moscow Xinhua, May 7, 2015 0 Comment(s) Print Email 2 Chinese troops march on Red Square 3 Dutch collector: Mummified Buddha will r... Adjust font size: 4 WWII victory anniversary marked around w... A documentary about China's resistance against the Japanese invasion during the World War II 5 North Korea testfires ballistic missile... was shown to Chinese audiences more than 70 years after it was made. China's Top Attractions: A Complete Guide Most Popular Arts Stories ›› 1 Dutch collector: Mummified Buddha will r... 2 Zhao Wei promotes new TV series 3 Monkey King gets wax replica 4 Isabella Liu: A rising star in design 5 Adventurer Agustinus Wibowo: A journey h... Poster of the Oscarwinning documentary 'Kukan': The Battle Cry of China [Photo/CRI] The Oscar winner 'Kukan': The Battle Cry of China, was filmed by American correspondent Rey China Wiki ›› Scott in the 1930s. The 85minute movie premiered at the China Three Gorges Museum in Xanadu (元上都) is a historical southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Tuesday. site in the Zhenglan Grasslands of northern China's Inner It was played for an audience of around 200, mostly scholars and students. Mongolia Autonomous Region. The spot has been included on the World Heritage List. (More) "It was heartshaking," said Zhang Jin, a professor with Chongqing University who attended the screening. "In the past, young Chinese people could only learn that part of history through books Features ›› and imagine what happened. The film gives them a chance to actually see it." Art house films still suffer in Sponsored by Chinese American filmmaker Li LingAi, Scott visited China four times beginning in China 1937, where he recorded the destruction of Japanese invaders and the hardship of ordinary Despite support from fellow directors and actors, one people in wartorn China. Chinese director’s appeal for more screenings for Chinese art house films seems to have done The movie premiered in the United States in 1941 and was watched by late U.S. President little to change the harsh reality Franklin Roosevelt. Scott won an Academy Honorary Award for producing the film "with a 16mm of imbalance in China's booming film market. camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions". The film contains 17plus minutes showing a twoday air attack by the Japanese invaders in Opinion ›› Chongqing, China's wartime capital after the Japanese invasion, in August 1940. Scott managed Export of domestic drama picking to record the scenes from the roof of the U.S. embassy. He also filmed the debris and blaze after up pace the bombing. Exporting homemade TV series http://www.china.org.cn/arts/201505/07/content_35509661.htm 1/3 5/10/2015 Rediscovered wartime documentary premieres China.org.cn the bombing. Exporting homemade TV series has been a longcherished goal for China's cultural industry. Zhou Yong, director of the research and collaborative innovation center in Chongqing, said it was his first time to see such vivid depictions of the bombing. Arts Photos ›› "It was shocking," he said. "Rather than filming the battlefield, the movie focused on the struggle of ordinary people, on how unyielding they were during the war." The movie has never been screened in China and was considered lost after World War II. World's largest Zhao Wei Disney flagship promotes new TV It was rediscovered by Chinese American filmmaker Robin Lung, who spent six years searching store to open series for the complete copy of the film and another three years repairing it. The research and collaborative innovation center of Chongqing has acquired the right of using it for 20 years in China, including the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the WWII. In Chongqing, screening of the film will be moved to Hongyan Revolutionary Memorial Hall, a museum dedicated to the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the city. Chongqing TV has decided to run it later this year, said Zhou Bo, deputy head of the publicity department of Chongqing. Several other provincial television stations also applied to use it. Follow China.org.cn on Twitter and Facebook to join the conversation. Print Email Related Deng Xiaoping documentary uses rare US archival Documentary highlights SinoAfrica cultural footage integration screened in Nairobi Chinese documentary seeking to protect rare Documentary 'Cotton' records workers' hardships monkey makes debut in U.S. Documentary about life on QinghaiTibet Plateau to debut on National Geographic Channel Documentary reveals details of Crimea's return 0 Comment(s) Go to Forum >> No comments. Add your comments... User Name Required Your Comment Enter the words you see: Submit Racist, abusive and offtopic comments may be removed by the moderator. 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