DREAM FACTORIES ON THE OUTSKIRTS A Concise History of Singapore’s Early Film Studios (1926 – 1973) by Toh Hun Ping Movie production in Singapore by local filmmakers first started in July 1926, when Low Pue Kim (Liu Bei-jin, 刘贝锦), a Singapore-born entrepreneur, established the Nanyang Low Pue Kim Independent Film Production Company/南洋刘贝锦自制影片公司. He founded the company in the hope of creating, as a precedent, Chinese films with a Nanyang (literally ‘South Seas’; broadly refers to Southeast Asia) flavour using homegrown talents. […]

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