 <unk> of Ouw Peh Tjoa continued until at least 1953 . The film is now likely lost . Movies in the Indies were recorded on highly flammable nitrate film , and after a fire destroyed much of <unk> Film <unk> 's warehouse in 1952 , old films shot on nitrate were deliberately destroyed . As such , the American visual anthropologist Karl G. <unk> writes that all Indonesian films from before 1950 are lost . However , <unk> <unk> 's <unk> Film Indonesia ( Indonesian Film <unk> ) records several as having survived at <unk> Indonesia 's archives , and Biran writes that several Japanese propaganda films have survived at the Netherlands Government Information Service . 
