Great Bright Cinema.

"Quick, someone fainted again. Fast. ”

The urging voice came faster than one.

Faint?

Can you faint while watching a movie?

I felt that the foreigners here looked at each other, and they had no idea what movie was being shown inside or why it was happening.

"Gentlemen and ladies."

Moyes cleared his throat and said, "I'm just as curious about what's going on inside, and if we want to solve this mystery, I think we should go in and see." ”

So, this group of people walked into the Daguang Cinema......

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Sobbs, screams, and even cries were heard in the cinema.

Some people looked at it and suddenly fainted.

Even for the well-informed journalists, some of them would suddenly run into a corner and vomit profusely.

The wife of a diplomat, who had just walked into the cinema, glanced at the big screen and suddenly let out a sharp and terrifying scream.

No one blames her, because it's all too normal here......

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Ma Guisheng's tears kept flowing there.

He didn't even know how he controlled the emotional projection.

He thought it was a tragedy for a little person like himself to live until now.

But at this time, he knew that compared with the Nanjing people who suffered terrible suffering in the film, he was so happy.

At the very least, I'm still alive.

Meng Shaoyuan next to him was also crying.

No one has ever seen Meng Shaoyuan cry.

But he's really crying there now.

He knew it existed, but it was the first time in his life that he had seen what was on it.

He thought he was mentally strong enough, and he thought he was prepared.

However, when he saw the film with his own eyes, he knew that in the face of real human tragedy, the so-called strong psychology was not vulnerable at all!

And how many tribulations have these precious films gone through......

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Miss Lester, a British missionary, bravely brought the films to Japan, naively believing that if some of Japan's Christian and political leaders could see them, it might help to stop the atrocities.

She did show a film to a small group of Christian leaders in Tokyo, but her actions were quickly banned and her whereabouts have not been known since.

The film provided to the German diplomat Rosen was almost unknown for half a century.

In the United States, in early March 1938, Feige, who arrived in California from Nanjing, screened Magee's film at a lecture and was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times. In April, Feige screened the film in Washington for the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Commons of the U.S. Congress, the War Intelligence Agency, and journalists. In addition, he has spoken to quite a few churches and government agencies about the film.

Later, the images in the film were remade into photographs, 10 of which were published in the May 1938 issue of Life magazine in the United States, which was the world's first real report on the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre in the media.

In May of the same year, Maggie temporarily returned to the United States for a sabbatical and brought back a more complete film, which he had also shown in churches and other places.

Unfortunately, for most Americans, the film was "too scary", and people often fainted when they saw those atrocity scenes, which also limited the film's dissemination.

Decades later, the Rosen Report, stored in the Potsdam Archives in Berlin, Germany, was discovered.

In the report, written on February 10, 1938, Rosen not only talked about Magee's films and demanded that the material be kept close, but also included a detailed, unsigned catalogue of footage from the films in English.

Rosen even went so far as to ask that the film be shown to "Hitler" because "it is a shocking document of the times".

The Lawson report quickly attracted the attention of the Japanese media, however, because the actual film was not found at the same time, the Japanese refused to acknowledge the existence of the film, and even slandered it as a "ghost movie".

In order to find these films, China and Japan are completely in a race against time.

Thanks to Magee's son, David Magee, it was he who finally found the film and the camera that was shot in the basement. Despite its fifty years of history, the quality of the film is still very good and it plays properly.

Thanks to David Magee, who generously donated these precious films and cameras to China!

The Nanjing Massacre, since then, the evidence is ironclad!

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Even more thanks to John Magee, who made these films. Please also keep in mind his last will:

"If I live again, I still have to serve the Chinese, China is my home."

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And now, all the regrets no longer exist with the appearance of Meng Shaoyuan!

These videos are shocking and terrifying.

But it won't have to wait decades to see the light of day.

Japan, there is no denial.

Both now and in the future.

Meng Shaoyuan burst into tears.

He found that all his hard work and dedication were so worth it at this moment......

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"Some Japanese soldiers came, some of them like wild beasts, and I was holding a poor wounded soldier who was striding forward in agony, and one of the Japanese dragged him away from me, twisted his wounded neck violently, and tied his hands together, and tied the hands of another wounded man together......"

The narration keeps appearing:

"We were met at the door by an angry officer, a man I had never seen before! He spoke in a voice that sounded like a dog barking. If I were combustible, he would look like he was going to burn me down.

The horror of the past week is something I have never experienced. I never dreamed that the Japanese soldiers would be so barbaric. It's been a week of slaughter, of strength.

I don't think it's been a long time since there has been such a brutality in human history, and only the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks can be compared......

Chinese women knelt down and begged Japanese soldiers not to kill their sons and husbands, who were ruthlessly driven together simply because they were suspected of being soldiers.

Thousands of civilians were roped up in this way and driven to the banks of the Yangtze River, numerous small ponds, and open fields in Shimonoseki, where they were subjected to machine-gun fire, bayonet slashing, rifle volleys, and even executed with hand grenades......"

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As the third roll of film was shown, the screams and vomiting were gone.

Everyone was there watching the film quietly.

In the cinema, there was a terrible, deathly silence.

Almost everyone had tears in their eyes.

Chinese, foreigners.

Wu Jingyi's body trembled.

She thought she was strong, but she realized she was wrong.

I am so vulnerable.

Cai Xuefei had to desperately pinch her tiger mouth with her fingernails to ensure that she would not faint.

She couldn't bear to keep watching, but she forced herself to keep watching.

She had to keep these things in mind, and she couldn't forget them at all.

Xu Zhu had always thought of himself as an emotionless person, but now he found that this idea was so ridiculous.

Sinclair covered her mouth, her hands trembling.

He would rather interrogate a hundred more of the most difficult prisoners than he could bear to see this scene again.

Moyes and Xie Weisi, two men, never imagined that they would cry so sadly......

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The three rolls of film were finally released.

Each volume is 37 minutes long, for a total of 111 minutes.

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Meng Shaoyuan got up slowly.

In his time, it was even difficult to find a 105-minute version, and the version that George Fitch brought out at the risk of death was only 11 minutes per volume.

And now in his hands, he has eight rolls of film in his hands.

And Kodak Shanghai has promised to help him make a large number of copies.

The whole world should know what happened in Nanjing!

The evidence is ironclad!

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The movie is over, and there is still no sound.

No one got up and left.

Everyone sat there silently, silently looking at the screen that was already empty.

Tears and sadness are the only ones here.

"I am Vice-Consul of the Consulate General of the United States of America in Shanghai, Republic of China."

Xie Weisi had to control it with great perseverance in order to slowly walk to the front, and his voice was very clear in the cinema:

"Every word I say today does not mean the consulate, nor the United States of America, but myself.

Just now, we saw the bloodiest, most tragic and ugliest scene in human history. Before coming here, I was attending a reception hosted by the Japanese Consulate, where we also saw some photos.

How the Chinese welcome the Japanese, and how the Japanese treat the Chinese well. But when I came here and saw these videos with my own eyes, I was sure that everything was a lie!

The Japanese and the whole world have told a big lie, they are slaughtering unarmed civilians, they are committing the most despicable crime in the history of mankind, but they are trying to lie and cover it up.

Everyone here today is a witness, and we have witnessed a history that we want to forget, but should never forget. Even our descendants should not forget.

We can't stop the war, and we can't stop the Japanese from continuing their atrocities, but we can at least tell everyone we know what we saw.

Remember Nanjing, remember those who died. I suggest a moment of silence to Nanjing. ”

He was the first to bow his head.

Everyone stood up and bowed their heads.

"Remember, don't forget at all!"

When the silence was over, Xie Weisi raised his head, and his voice suddenly raised:

"Shameless atrocities, ugly Japan, suffering China. Please do what we can to help this country, perhaps we have limited capacity. Thank you to the heroes who made these films and brought them out to the public! Please use your power to spread the content of the film, so that every corner of the world knows about the tragedy that happened in Nanjing, China! ”

Meng Shaoyuan took a deep breath. He did it, and he knew he had done it anyway!