By the 1980s, over 1000 Taiwanese-language films had been made, but as Taiwan prospered economically in the late 20th century, cultural assets like these began to be ignored and brushed aside--until recently, when visionary people began to collect and preserve them.
根據統計，1980 年代前，台灣拍攝了上千部台語片。只是，半世紀來，台灣經濟導向的社會發展，使得早年的文化資產遭到漠視，直到最近幾年才在有識之士的呼籲下，開始蒐尋這批散佚的影像史料。