In an article entitled "Taiwan Documentaries and Cultural Change," Li Tao-ming notes that early Taiwan documentaries would occasionally appear on TV. At that time people in TV like Chang Chao-tang, Chuan Ling, Huang Chun-ming and Christopher Doyle expressed concern about folk culture in a highly emotional way. They filmed, for example, tens of thousands of Matsu worshippers, old residences, and the paper umbrellas of Meinung.
李道明在「台灣紀錄片和文化變遷」一文中指出，台灣紀錄片早期曾零星出現在電視節目中，當時的電視工作者如張照堂、莊靈、黃春明、杜可風等，以帶有感情的筆調，關注民俗文化，如大甲媽祖數萬信徒進香、古厝、美濃紙傘等。