Taiwanese film hunters rescue ageing reels from bygone era

In a dimly lit red-brick house in central Taiwan, film hunter Wang Wei and his team haul out ageing film reels, salvaging the fragile remnants of a cinema boom that nearly vanished from history.

Rare Taiwanese-language films — known locally as “taiyupian” — flourished briefly from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s under the Kuomintang […] ...