The 1987 ATV Fire: Why the World’s First Three Kingdoms Drama is Gone Forever

Cinematic depiction of a burning 1970s television set and melting film reels representing the loss of Samguk Chunchu 1976.

The first person to dramatize the Three Kingdoms for television is dead. The performance no longer exists. The tape that held it melted. You cannot watch it. Not because it was never made. Because a building burned in 1987 and nobody saved what was inside. The oldest recorded visual interpretation of one of the most … Read more