Man's Heart (1928)

Country

Malaysia

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This silent film follows overseas Chinese workers in the tin mining industry of 1920s Malaysia. It shows their struggles and hardships.

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What happens

Man's Heart (Chinese: 男子的心) is a British-Malaysian tragedy silent film about the overseas Chinese community in the tin mining industry. Produced and released in 1928, the film was presented by the Kwong Kwong Motion Picture Company (Chinese: 光光影片公司), which was located in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan state. Its film crew and shooting equipment came from the past Nanyang Low Pui-kim's self-made Motion Picture Company (Chinese: 南洋劉貝錦自製影片公司) in Singapore. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.