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About this episode

In 1945 U.S. Army Doctor Clinton Millett was in charge of the 172nd General Hospital Convalescent Camp on Lake Dianchi on the outskirts of Kunming China. He led the Hospital convoy across the Burma Road from Ledo, India to Kunming, China. During his eight months in China he took beautiful colored photographs of the landscape and the people. In 2004, Dr. Millett's son, Gregg, and great-granddaughter, Krystal, took his photographs back to Kunming. Through a chance connection, Jin Fei Bao, of Kunming organized the exhibition of these photographs, and in one month, 300,000 people came to look back into their colored past. Many people recognized their homes, old streets, shops and even their parents and themselves as children! Dr. Millett's 35mm colored slides are now at the National Museum of China in Beijing and where declared by Chinese historians as the earliest known collection of colored photographs of China. This documentary shows Dr. Millett's original slides contrasted with the digitally enhanced images prepared for the China exhibition.

• Release Date

  Sep 10, 2009

• Runtime

  29:34