A wonderful introduction to the century of images

Episode 1

"The opening of the 20th century - cameras began to record fragments of history"

It traces the beginning of the birth of film in the late nineteenth century to the first Precious historical images on the eve of the outbreak of World War I.

QUOTE One hundred years ago in 1895

A one-minute moving image was screened in Paris

The latest projector

Focused light The lens is an experimental bottle filled with water

The light source is the arc lamp used for street lighting at that time

This hand-turned part

It was also a camera when shooting

What thirty viewers watched a hundred years ago was

[Factory Gate] photographed by Frenchman Louis Lumière

Using midsummer This image shot under strong sunlight

is the earliest officially released film in the world

The imaging technology has developed rapidly since then

Recording the history of this century

< p>The twentieth century is the earliest era recorded by moving images

Episode 2

"The formation of mass killings-soldiers in the trenches witnessed the emergence of horrific weapons"

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The entire process from the beginning to the end of World War I is recorded in archives around the world.

QUOTE Early twentieth century

At that time, one-fifth of the earth's area was colonized by European powers

The powers competed with each other to seize new colonies

Competing to expand armaments and watching with eagerness

The situation in Europe is about to break out

The incident first occurred in the Balkans

The Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo

The prisoner was a Serbian nationalist who called for independence

Austria took this opportunity to declare war on Serbia

And the German response to the Austrian Alliance joined

The Russian Empire, France and the British Empire

joined forces to help Serbia declare war on Germany

The First World War broke out in July 1914

World War I was the first war to be fully recorded with moving images

The emergence of new killing weapons with high destructive power

This shows the formation of the war system in the twentieth century

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This collection collects images from 1914 to 1918

Describes the First World War that became the prelude to the twentieth century

Episode 3

< p>"It started in Manhattan - the desire erupted from mass society dominated the era"

The [mass] suddenly appeared in the twentieth century and became the protagonist of the era, and the mass production and mass production that followed Massive consumption, in the era of great panic, went crazy and formed a catastrophic mass movement. American society in the 1920s was the origin and epitome of mass society.

QUOTE Manhattan in the 1920s was lined with high-rise buildings

There was a flood of information

The desires of the public were flowing across them

People were looking for wealth Running around for fun

A strong mass society is gradually taking shape

This episode examines the 1920s that became

the origin of modern mass society

The Light and Shadow of American Society in the 1990s

Prosperity and Decline

Episode 4

"Hitler's Ambition - Holding high the banner of national rejuvenation and people placing their trust in the future On the Nazis"

The history of the 1930s, from the Great Panic to the outbreak of World War II. A [monster] was born from the desires of the masses, and a mass movement called fascism eventually led the masses to bring themselves and the world into unprecedented disaster. The most thought-provoking phase of mass society in the twentieth century.

QUOTE October 1929

Stocks plummeted on Wall Street in New York

Companies went bankrupt one after another and banks closed

What happened in New York, the world economic center Economic panic

Spread around the world in the blink of an eye

The world has plunged into an unprecedented recession

It emerged against the background of people's despair and uneasiness

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Nationalism is surging in various countries

This episode focuses on Germany led by Hitler

Introducing the world panic since 1930 The beginning

The era up to the outbreak of World War II in 1939

Episode 5

"The world witnessed hell—the indiscriminate bombing massacre and the atomic bombing"

The Second World War, which began in 1939, exposed the ugliest and dank side of human nature to its most vivid expression. Whether the war was just or not was meaningless to the civilians who were struggling to survive in purgatory every day. The shuddering scenes burned onto the film are records of human madness and suffering.

QUOTEThe small village of Oradorou in southern France

It was completely destroyed by the German army in World War II

In order not to forget the tragic memory

The ruins are still in their original state

June 10, 1944

The German army attacked the village

All the villagers who did not resist were killed

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The six years from 1939 to 1945

Hell-like scenery spread all over the world

World War II

Not only on the battlefield The battle of the army

The citizens who resisted were also involved in the brutal war

This episode depicts the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century

The Second World The Great War

Episode 6

"Under the banner of independence—Asia has gone through a painful journey toward the independence of the motherland"

The struggles of Asian countries for independence before and after World War II History, centered on India, China and Vietnam, collects precious images of the time and is also the episode with the richest content on China in this series.

QUOTE August 1945

People in Asia

Rejoicing at the end of the war

The [Greater East Asia] promoted by Japan ***Rong Circle] Collapse

A power vacuum emerged in Asia

Leaders who fought for the independence of their country

China’s Mao Zedong

Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam

Gandhi in India

Asia, under the leadership of strong leaders

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Twentieth Century

People in Asia longed for

to be liberated from colonial rule by great powers

This episode depicts Asian countries

The painful journey of fighting for independence

Episode 7

"The division of the world by the winner - the East-West Cold War begins with the Yalta Conference"

The Yalta Conference is a great power The beginning of dividing the world according to respective interests and manipulating the fate of small countries was the initiator of many national tragedies and the beginning of the Cold War between the East and the West.

QUOTE Yalta, a resort on the Black Sea coast

Libadiya Palace

Once the villa of the Nomanov dynasty

1945 In February 2016

The leaders of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union

gathered here

to hold the Yalta Conference that decided the fate of the world

US President Roosevelt

British Prime Minister Churchill

and Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union

The final battles to the death at the end of the war are still raging around the world

The infighting battle to divide the sphere of influence in the post-war world has begun

The results of the Yalta talks

resulted in countless people leaving their homes

The same nation was divided into two parts The Tragedy of Two

This episode introduces the Yalta Conference, the starting point of the post-war world system

and the subsequent East-West Cold War era

Episode 8

< p>"Peace in Terror - Eastern and Western leaders shoulder the ultimate weapon - nuclear weapons confrontation"

In the Cold War era for more than 40 years, the arms and space development competition between the United States and the Soviet Union brought about Huge fiscal deficits and apocalyptic fear gripping the world, and the [Long Peace] born of the balance of fear. As the winner of the Cold War, the United States now dominates the world with only 3.5% of its defense budget. However, the Soviet Union, which was once glorious, failed to escape the curse of "satellites in the sky and red flags in the ground".

QUOTEAfter World War II

Tensions between the East and West camps intensified

The United States repeatedly conducted nuclear tests in order to maintain its nuclear superiority

1946 The first post-war atomic bomb test was carried out in Bikini in July

Since then, the United States has carried out more than 60 nuclear explosions in the Central Pacific

Four years later than the United States

The Soviet Union also successfully conducted an atomic bomb test for the first time

The United States' nuclear monopoly came to an end

Nuclear power that can destroy the earth in an instant

The United States and the Soviet Union The nuclear weapons increased the risk of nuclear war to the Cold War

In order to maintain a nuclear power superior to that of the other side

The United States and the Soviet Union launched an arms race

This episode introduces the 1950s To the early 1960s

The Cold War era dominated by nuclear terror

Episode 9

"The impact of Vietnam—American society began to shake"

A war between compatriots that lasted for fifteen years under the slogan of [national unity], and a proxy war of great powers that lasted for ten years in the name of defending [freedom] and [justice]. After paying a heavy price, today, the United States The economic and cultural comeback has been welcomed, but today, thirty years after using force to complete [the cause of reunification], Vietnam's national reconciliation is still far away.

QUOTEApril 30, 1975

North Vietnamese tank troops stormed the presidential palace in Saigon

This was the first time in the Vietnam War

A war in which battlefield images were broadcast through television

People can see it at home

The images of the fighting in Vietnam that day

The reality of Vietnam has shaken American society

Promote changes

The enormous cost of war oppresses the American economy

Domestic divisions over whether to go to war

Confrontation against the system Triggering the collapse of various values

This episode describes the Vietnam War

and the United States' superpower status that was shaken

by the Vietnam War

Episode 10

"The endless national tragedy - under the endless flames of war are the hesitant cries of people"

The twentieth century is a century of national suffering. The rise of nationalism caused by intolerance between nations and the proliferation of national self-determination has brought about terrorist activities and disputes caused by intensified antagonisms within and between nations. Under the protection of national concepts such as "sovereign equality" and "non-interference in internal affairs", people continue to suffer due to their nationality and ethnic attributes that they cannot choose.

QUOTESeven years after the end of the Cold War

National dissatisfaction suppressed by the superpowers erupted like a volcano

Ethnic disputes spread around the world

None The end of ethnic strife has caused more than 30 million refugees on the earth

The twentieth century is a century of refugees who come one after another

It has been more than a hundred years since the birth of the image

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The endless procession of refugees can be seen in any era

National antagonisms surrounding national leadership,

Exile and religious opposition under the dictatorship

This episode introduces the creation of countless refugees

The national tragedy that continues to this day

Episode 11

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"JAPAN - Meiji? Taisho? Showa in the Eyes of the World"

Japan special series collects film images about Japan shot by photographers from various countries from the Meiji era to the 1920s. It is accompanied by movable type records of foreigners' comments on Japan.

In 1895, the French Lumiere brothers

filmed the event for the first time in Paris

Japan appeared in the film two years later

Through these images

Overseas people witnessed this distant eastern country for the first time

From the beginning of the film

Japan has been captured by photographers from all over the world

These images record

Post-Meiji Japan, which was regarded as a small country in the Far East

on the world stage The trajectory of the debut

Various customs

War, defeat and post-war revival

[The Century of Images] Final Return

We will introduce Japan from the late Meiji era to post-war reconstruction

Japan preserved in overseas video materials