Chapter 167 Screening
Soon, Shanghai Firebird International Film Company was quietly established...
He spent a lot of money to buy the most "advanced" filming and screening equipment of this era from the United States, and hired several well-informed American film talents with high salaries. If he hadn't found himself, he really wanted to invite Chaplin, who had not yet made a fortune. The company's shelf was quickly built under Wang Jin's personal "care", and all preparations were carried out in an orderly manner. The film company's first scene to be filmed was also determined early. []
What made him feel helpless was that Huang Jinrong was an old-fashioned man. Although he trusted his investment vision and paid half of the shares of Firebird International Film Company, he was not very interested in the emerging industry of film. In his eyes, the entertainment industry still had only traditional three-person "yellow, gambling, and drugs", and nothing else was taken into consideration. Therefore, this time, he did not participate in the establishment of China's first film company, but sent his own representative as the company's general manager.
What he didn't expect was that the confidant who was sent by Huang Jinrong to serve as the general manager of the film company was Du Yuesheng, the leader of the three tycoons in Shanghai who had met several times in the future.
But at this time he was just a confidant disciple of Huang Jinrong, and he was still a little restrained and nervous in front of a real big shot in Shanghai stall like Wang Jin. Where would Wang Jin pay attention to these? He invited all his staff to prepare for the preparations. Firebird Film Company's first film "Shanghai Stock Market Crash" quickly started filming...
But the movie is not so easy to do. Seeing the foreigners who were dragging on the shooting site, Wang Jin was so angry that he almost vomited blood. With this shooting efficiency, he could be a "high-quality talent" in the American film industry? To be honest, how could he have time to accompany these people?
So, despite the fierce opposition from the invited American director, he relied on the "confidence" of crossing the amateur shooting of the front-end DVD, and snatched the power of director and photography, and personally took over the power of director and photography. The poor picture was almost the same as the effect of shooting. As long as the picture was edited, it would be possible to see it. After all, it was also China's first movie. Unexpectedly, my buddy became a director and photographer, which was a pioneer in an era, right?
With Wang Jin, the boss behind the scenes, the shooting progress of "Shanghai Stock Market Crash" was extremely impressive, and it was comparable to the quick-killer in the Hong Kong film industry in later generations. In less than a week, a 45-minute documentary film was completed. The post-production editing work was extremely rapid, and it only took him two days...
The invited American film "professional talents" were incredible while watching the sample, staring at the rough white curtain with a pair of bull eyes and staring at the rough white curtain.
The movie was filmed, and Du Yuesheng was responsible for the subsequent publicity work. He was familiar with the locals in Shanghai and his understanding of ordinary citizens was not comparable to that of Wang Jin. In a few days, the entire Shanghai market knew that a newly opened company had obtained magic tricks from abroad and was broadcast for them to watch for free in a few days.
Suddenly, some idle people on the street couldn't help but gather together and mutter, wondering how this new magic trick was a magic trick? Some people disdained and curious, and there were crowds of people talking about the streets and alleys. They invisibly promoted the movie "Shanghai Stock Market Crash". There were no 10,000 people waiting to watch the show, and there were eight thousand...
At this time, the market in Shanghai was in a state of depression. Such a fun thing did not arouse the strong curiosity of citizens? On the day the movie was released, a piece of open land found in the city was crowded with people. Du Yuesheng, who was responsible for maintaining the order, and his Qing Gang brother, were sweating profusely.
With so many citizens gathered together, the concession authorities were also afraid of chaos, so they greeted Firebird Film Company and sent a large number of police stations to help maintain the normal order. Fortunately, Du Yuesheng revealed his identity as a disciple of the Qing Gang early on, and those restless young people did not dare to make random rashes. But even so, such a dense crowd still caused a lot of accidents. It was too common to fight and fight. Fortunately, the Qing Gang's younger brothers quickly came forward to solve the problem, otherwise they really didn't know what kind of troubles and resistances would be encountered in this movie screening.
At this time, there were no cinemas in Shanghai stalls, but there were several large theaters. Such a grand event should have been held at the Shanghai Grand Theater as the best choice, but Wang Jin's purpose was to publicize the truth about the stock market crash to ordinary citizens. Naturally, the more popular the occasion, the better.
The open space found by Du Yuesheng was near ordinary houses in the concession, and he hurriedly surrounded the surroundings with cloth strips. This is the film screening place. The audience came to sit on the ground spontaneously. The rich sells bags of melon seeds and don’t have much money to chat and spank. They are all ordinary civilians and don’t pay much attention to it.
After the movie was screened, the audience became quiet. The audience opened their curious eyes and looked at the people and voices on the huge white screen in front of them and were curious and admiring. Not long after, the audience was slowly attracted by the plot in the movie, and slowly entered the mood and fluctuated with the plot.
The scenes of the movie are very rough and the dubbing is too bad, but it can't be resisted. This is a new thing. Everyone is curious about the plot of "Shanghai Stock Market Crisis" is actually very simple, mainly telling the causes and consequences of this Shanghai Stock Market Crisis in the form of a documentary. Of course, the negative side of the key description is the typical foreign speculative businessmen who run short companies and run away with money.
In the movie, these foreign speculators are portrayed as sinister and cunning, with big bad guys with sores on their heads and pus flowing from their feet. Every time they appear, they are accompanied by extremely ugly faces, and every line seems to contain conspiracy.
The audience gradually became excited, and the irritable ones cursed on the spot. Seeing the foreigners making money by any means in the movie, the audience with skin pain were angry and crazy, wishing to pull the foreigners on the screen out to pieces!
Especially when the audience saw the stock market crash coming, the foreign speculators who received the news in advance fled one by one, and the screening scene burst into earth-shaking scolding.
Chapter completed!