 While local Mandarin films were experiencing a local box office  slump during a brief period in the early 70s, former Shaw  director/production manager Yuan Chiu Feng reportedly announced in a  Taipei press conference that Xian nu xia fan aka The Human  Goddess was to be the first Mandarin language feature to be sent  over to the United States for patented single strip 70mm Cinerama  formatting to tailor it for local D