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[[File:Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (大小黄天霸) (1962) - rare episode|thumb|right|300px|The 5 minute excerpt on YouTube.]]
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'''''Big and Little Wong Tin Bar''''' is a lost film, notable for being the film debut of a very young Jackie Chan. The film featured the performance group Seven Little Fortunes, of which martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung were members as children. The film was released in 1962. Not a whole lot is known about the film regarding its plot.
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|datefound=06 May 2016
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'''''Big and Little Wong Tin Bar''''' (大小黃天霸/大小黄天霸 in Chinese, also called 橫掃江南七霸天, translated to ''"Seven Little Valiant Fighters"'')<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140317141300/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/CulturalService/filmprog/english/2009hb/2009hb_film02.html Page for the film on the Hong Kong Film Archive website.] Retrieved 28 May '19</ref> is a 1962 Hong Kong martial arts film, notable for being Jackie Chan's film debut. The film featured the "Seven Little Valiant Warriors", including Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung when they were children. The film follows the life of a child learning martial arts to become a Kung Fu warrior.


For years, it was thought that the only remaining footage from the film was the short clips shown in the documentary ''Jackie Chan: My Story''. However in January 2012, a YouTube user posted a 5 minute excerpt from the film. This footage was originally posted on Chinese video sharing site Youku, and the origin of the footage is unknown.
For years, it was thought that the only remaining footage from the film was a short clip shown in the documentary ''Jackie Chan: My Story''. However, on August 23rd, 2012, a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNqbHfqtvE 9-minute excerpt] of the film was uploaded on Chinese video site Youku by a user called "富士蘋果". On December 2nd, 2015, a YouTube user called oraTAXI (深宵影院) uploaded a 25-minute excerpt from the film. On December 23rd of the same year, oraTAXI then uploaded the entire film, but the footage appeared to be sepia-tone, and it had a watermark in the bottom left corner bearing the screen name of the uploader.
 
Finally, on May 6th, 2016, the same user who had uploaded the previous two videos uploaded a version of the film that was in black and white (as seen from the excerpts) and without the uploader's watermark. This upload appears to be the original version of the film.
 
oraTAXI's account was later terminated along with the video of the original film, but a reupload was found and placed on archive.org.
 
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==External Links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_and_Little_Wong_Tin_Bar Wikipedia page for ''Big and Little Wong Tin Bar''.] Retrieved 14 Mar '16
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124296/ IMDb page for ''Big and Little Wong Tin Bar''.] Retrieved 14 Mar '16
 
==Reference==
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Latest revision as of 07:45, 14 March 2023

BigAndLittleWongTinBar-InfoboxStill.jpg

A still from the film.

Status: Found

Date found: 06 May 2016

Found by: oraTAXI

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (大小黃天霸/大小黄天霸 in Chinese, also called 橫掃江南七霸天, translated to "Seven Little Valiant Fighters")[1] is a 1962 Hong Kong martial arts film, notable for being Jackie Chan's film debut. The film featured the "Seven Little Valiant Warriors", including Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung when they were children. The film follows the life of a child learning martial arts to become a Kung Fu warrior.

For years, it was thought that the only remaining footage from the film was a short clip shown in the documentary Jackie Chan: My Story. However, on August 23rd, 2012, a 9-minute excerpt of the film was uploaded on Chinese video site Youku by a user called "富士蘋果". On December 2nd, 2015, a YouTube user called oraTAXI (深宵影院) uploaded a 25-minute excerpt from the film. On December 23rd of the same year, oraTAXI then uploaded the entire film, but the footage appeared to be sepia-tone, and it had a watermark in the bottom left corner bearing the screen name of the uploader.

Finally, on May 6th, 2016, the same user who had uploaded the previous two videos uploaded a version of the film that was in black and white (as seen from the excerpts) and without the uploader's watermark. This upload appears to be the original version of the film.

oraTAXI's account was later terminated along with the video of the original film, but a reupload was found and placed on archive.org.

Gallery

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar

External Links

Reference