https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01439685.2024.2435684<\/a><\/p>\n\nAbstract<\/p>\n\n
In 1966, the British colonial government\u2019s Hong Kong Film Unit inaugurated its monthly current affairs film series, Hong Kong Today (1966\u20131974). Initially established in 1959 under the Public Relations Office and later renamed Government Information Services (GIS), the Film Unit was a publicity arm of the Colonial Government and regularly screened films for urban audiences across twenty-five theaters as well as for rural audiences via mobile projection units.<\/p>\n\n
Chronicling both significant and trivial events in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1974, the Today series in 1966 would coincide with the first of three years of deadly events that radically shook Hong Kong and the globe, changing the ways in which the Crown colony saw itself in relation to the British colonial government. The archival documents surrounding these film episodes, including those featuring the 1967 Maoist riots, were recently removed by the GIS from the archive of the Hong Kong Public Records Office.<\/p>\n\n
To keep the historical record alive, this essay explores the archival material surrounding the missing documents by examining the dynamics behind the decisions of the colonial government leadership, GIS, and the filmmakers. It unravels the 1967 riots as a pivotal point in Hong Kong\u2019s formation during Cold War, complex colonialism, and change in government and population relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author: Seth Henderson Source: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Link: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01439685.2024.2435684<\/a> Abstract In 1966, the British colonial government\u2019s Hong Kong Film Unit inaugurated its monthly current affairs film series, Hong Kong Today (1966\u20131974). Initially established in 1959 under the Public Relations Office and later renamed Government Information Services (GIS), the Film Unit was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145170531,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[776957933],"tags":[776958255,776958135,776958076,776958258],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--en","tag-archive","tag-hong-kong-history","tag-newsroom","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pai6UY-20g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6896,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/08\/25\/article-pro-communist-mandarin-cinema-in-cold-war-hong-kong\/","url_meta":{"origin":7704,"position":0},"title":"[Article] Pro-Communist Mandarin Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"25\/08\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Po-Shek Fu, Qin Yameng, Man-Fung Yip Source: The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War Link: https:\/\/experts.illinois.edu\/en\/publications\/pro-communist-mandarin-cinema-in-cold-war-hong-kong Abstract Colonial Hong Kong was a transregional hub of Cold War ideological confrontation where the United States and its Chinese ally, Chiang Kai-shek\u2019s Taiwan, struggled with Beijing for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Hong Kong Studies Newsroom"","block_context":{"text":"Hong Kong Studies Newsroom","link":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/category\/%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%ad%b8%e8%a1%93%e6%83%85%e5%a0%b1%e5%ae%a4-en\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7097,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/09\/17\/article-water-on-cross-border-screens-hong-kong-water-tales-from-the-1960s\/","url_meta":{"origin":7704,"position":1},"title":"[Article] Water on cross-border screens, Hong Kong water tales from the 1960s","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"17\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Zimu Zhang Source: Journal of Chinese Cinemas Link: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17508061.2025.2510066?src=exp-la&fbclid=IwY2xjawM93BpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFFNGM2RENaeVRGQThZRDFrAR6pUCCESdPv6wv9OeCNz2Pbyuso_079UHwOD_5txp5N9o33roEy8pz0b_jTzg_aem_9UX3jyZ2lWArtzvvLLGydQ Abstract This paper examines the massive engineering of water, mediated through screen practices, in the 1960s Hong Kong-Guangdong borderscape. 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