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The Story of Tahan River- Part II

This movie presents the geologic research results on the stream capture of Tahan River, and its effects on the economy as well as the lives of people. Geologists were interviewed to discuss the years stream capture occurred, and to reconstruct the process of the stream capture of Tahan River. .....

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PAS -TA AI :The Saisiyat Ceremony in 1936

It it is late November in 1936, the blooming season for silver grass. Accompanied by government officials of the Shinchiku Prefecture, Professor Utsurikawa Nenozo and his assistant Miyamoto Nobuto, both members of the Institute of Ethnology at Taihoku Imperial University, arrived at the ceremonial grounds of the Ta’ai Village, which is located in the Wuzhi Mountain of Hsinchu. They came to investigate the Pas-ta’ai ceremony of the Saisiyat. They brought 16 mm film cameras and vividly recorded this large ceremony, which was held in remembrance of the Ta’ai (the pygmies). Entering a new century, .....

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Collected Ping-pu Memories- On Representing Kavalan and Ketagalan Voices and Images

Through this 50-minute documentary, we invite you to travel through time, to discover a collection of Kavalan and Ketagalan artifacts, sound recordings, photographs and 16 mm films. Collected by Western and Japanese people one hundred years ago, these treasures were scattered to various institutes in different countries. Through the recorded footage of tribal people and activities since 1990, we urge you to trace through the memories and history, .....

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Top of East Asia-Taiwan’s Moutain Yushan

This film compresses the massive time-space and amazing biodiversity of Taiwan's mountains into a viewable size. It features Taiwan's highest Mountain Yushan, and tells the story of each unique and dramatic landscape. Combined with computer animation, the nine months shooting on land, sea, and from the air provides exquisite scenes and spectacular views of Taiwan's landscapes. .....

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Taiwan Jade

Taiwan Jade, produced in Fongtian, Hualien, was famous worldwide during the 1950s and 60s. The exported jade made a fortune for Taiwan, and its production remains at the top of the world today. This film from the Chinese Taipei Film Archive helps us understand Taiwan Jade's popularity and how its supply could not meet demand at the time. Hok-Shin Liu, professor of the Department of Resources Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, who started the fervor in jade quarrying about four decades ago, was interviewed for the first time. His interview reveals the pinnacle period of Taiwan Jade. .....

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Cracking the Nucleus

The memories of developing nuclear experiments in Taiwan were hidden in a dust-covered accelerator in a basement for twenty years. In 2005, the former operators of this accelerator, a retired professor and two veteran technicians, led a group to reconstruct it for educational exhibition, as now known as the NTU Heritage Hall of Physics. The story of the NTU accelerator and its reconstruction is presented in this film. .....

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