Published 2020
“…Under the leadership of its first president Robert Blum (1953~1962), The Asia Foundation, a San Francisco based private non profit organization which was established in 1951, was actively involved in the motion picture industries in Asia since its first feature film project The People Win Through, based on a play written by a Burmese
Prime Minister U Nu, came out in 1953. The Asia Foundation had clandestinely supported anti-Communist motion picture industry personnel, ranging from producers, directors, and technicians to critics and writers in Japan, Hong Kong, Burma, South Korea, as well as American and British motion picture producers in Malaysia and Thailand through covert activities. …”
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