Actress and budding photographer Candice Bergen with a camera on the film set in Keelung. © Academia Historica
Actress and budding photographer Candice Bergen with a coffee on the film set in Keelung. © Academia Historica
Fashion model Frances Bergen and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (right, who provided a brief voiceover for the film's first Changsha Mission School scene: "how nice to see you again…") arrive in Taiwan in January 1966 to visit their 19-year-old daughter. © Academia Historica
Once in #Keelung, she remembered that he jumped "onto the back of a passing water buffalo." Another time, after spotting "in the distance what looked like a herd of seals appeared, shiny black heads bobbing" — Nationalist #frogmen training for war — the film crew waited until they swam out of frame.