Taipei Story Internet Archive — [extra Quality]

If you are watching via the Archive, you are likely a student of cinema. Here is how to analyze the stream using the IA’s tools.

The Internet Archive is not a torrent site. Founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, its mission is "universal access to all knowledge." While it is famous for the Wayback Machine (archiving web pages), its "Moving Image Archive" contains over 4 million videos, including news broadcasts, classic commercials, and—crucially—orphaned films. taipei story internet archive

A recent loss hit the community hard: the source code for the original "Taipei 101 Fireworks Livecam 2005" interactive map was corrupted. The map allowed you to click on different rooftops in Xinyi District to see the fireworks from a friend's perspective. It is now a 404 error page. The archive has preserved the error page. If you are watching via the Archive, you

The protagonist, Lung, is a former baseball star. In Taiwan, Little League baseball was a source of immense national pride in the 1970s. Lung’s physical injury (a shoulder that can no longer throw) symbolizes Taiwan’s own growing pains and the "injury" of a society moving away from its past glories toward an uncertain, corporate future. Founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, its mission

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The archive’s founder, a digital librarian who goes only by the handle , describes it simply: “Hollywood archives films. Taipei archives demolition permits. We archive the feelings in between.”

The answer is complicated. The film is still under copyright in Taiwan (life of the author plus 50 years; Edward Yang died in 2007, meaning copyright extends to 2057). In the United States, under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, restored copyrights apply to foreign works. Legally, these uploads are infringing.