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Stealing a Roast Duck
1909 Hong Kong film
Stealing a Roast Duck (Chinese: 偷燒鴨; pinyin: Tōu shāo yā; Jyutping: Tau1 siu1ap3) is a silent short directed by Liang Shao-Bo in 1909; it is considered the first film from Hong Kong. The film stars Lai Pak-hoi in a lead role, while Shao-Bo stars as the eponymous duck thief.[1] Due to the Japanese destroying film to make bombs with nitrate, no copy of the film is extant; there has been doubt whether the film even actually existed.[2] There are also signs that the film was shown in 1917 in Los Angeles, which would make it the earliest Chinese film with a foreign release.[3][4][5]