Chen Min, director of Jiangsu News Station of Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group spent nearly two years in helping the Memorial Hall to recover John Magee’s "37-minute film disc".

Five years ago, at the end of 2017, a senior scholar at the Memorial Hall recommended Shao Tzuping to Chen Min. Shao is the main discoverer of the "Magee Film" and The Diaries of John Rabe, ironclad evidence of the Nanjing Massacre. That night, Chen Min contacted Shao Tzuping.

In February 2018, Chen Min (first on the right) went to Shao Tzuping's home for an interview, her first time to see Shao and his wife. Through multi-verification, "an inch disc" of 37-minute Magee film was confirmed.

In January 2018, an organization came into Chen's vision — the Association in Memory of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre (hereinafter referred to asAMVNM).AMVNM was founded in the United States in 1991, and over the years its members have pursued historical evidence, filmed documentaries, organized memorial ceremonies... A lot of work has been done to disseminate the history of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, especially the history of the Nanjing Massacre.Shao Tzuping is the founding president of AMVNM.

While looking through the materials, Chen Min came across an academic paper by Shao Tzuping, which briefly recorded AMVNM's search for Magee Film in the United States starting in late December 1990. "The film is 37 minutes long and, despite being 53 years old, is of excellent quality..." The paper said.

Chen then interviewed Wei Bizhou, deputy editor-in-chief of World Journal in the US. In 1991, Wei Bizhou, then a political reporter of World Journal, attended a press conference held by AMVNM. Wei Bizhou confirmed that the New York reporters had seen Shao Tzuping's film collection of the Nanjing Massacre that Shao and his peoplehad found in the basement of David Magee's house. It’s the 37-mimute version made by them.

This interview became the key evidence to Chen's confirmation that Magee Film had a 37-minute version.

Shao Tzuping gave Chen Min a clue that the "one-inch disc" was at present very likely to be in the hand of another overseas Chinese Chen Shiann-jong. Chen Min got up in the midnight for days making international calls. Finally, one day, Chen Shiann-jong answered the phone from the United States at 3 a.m. In the following half a year, Chen Min communicated with Chen repeatedly through Wechat, telephone and email, urging him to find "one-inch disc" again and again. The communication reached a hundred times.

Thanks to seven months of persistent search by a group of patriotic overseas Chinese, in October 2018, the 37-minute version of the "one-inch disc" of Magee Film, which had been lost for many years was found in New York. In April 2019, the Memorial Hall sent a team of experts to the United States for verification. Experts believed that the 37-minute version was one of the most comprehensive and rich versions of Magee’s films revealing the atrocities committed by Japanese invaders during the Nanjing Massacre.

the 37-minute version of the "one-inch disc"

After many times of communication among Chen Min, the Memorial Hall staff, experts, scholars, and press people, Shao Tzuping, Chen Shiann-jong and Kevin Chiang decided to donate the 37-minute version of "one-minute disc" to the Memorial Hall.

On December 13, 2019, the Memorial Hallheld a donation ceremony. Shao Tzuping (first from the right), Chen Shiann-jong (third from the right) and Kevin Chiang (second from the right) donated the 37-minute film to the Memorial Hall. Magee’s two grandchildren attended the ceremony.

Chen said she would continue to do whatever she could for the collection of historical materials, exhibitions and the dissemination of thehistory of the War of Resistance.