Taiwan races to restore deacde-old film reels

Rare Taiwanese-language films, known locally as taiyupian, flourished briefly from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s under the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government, which fled to Taiwan following its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party. Taiwan is now racing to restore the decades-old reels to preserve a chapter of its culture, with film preservers having salvaged fewer than one-sixth of the estimated 1,200 films produced.