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Article: Nanjing Massacre Documentary Film Discovered in US
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 13, 1997
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A documentary film on Nanjing Massacre that had never been
released, was discovered in the United States, said Tze-ping Shao,
first head of a U.S.-based association in commemoration of Nanjing
Massacre victims and the man who is now keeping the film.
The six-week long Nanjing Massacre started 60 years ago today
during which some 300,000 civilians and disarmed Chinese soldiers
were killed by the intruding Japanese troops.
Shao, a Chinese-American, said here Friday in an interview with
Xinhua that the 37-minute soundless black-white documentary film was
shot by John Gillespie Magee, a US missionary in China from 1912 to
1940 who died in 1953.
Magee, who had been chairman of the Nanjing ...