Like the previous seven animated films, Alice's Hunt in Africa is a 7-minute animated short.

"I think the Alice series should be able to be a success, this series is full of all kinds of jokes, and every second triggers our laughter nerves." Li Kangping said with a smile, and then, he put away his smile and said, "However, I found that Alice's appearance was a little frivolous, and her movements were more and more pulsating. When I watched "Alice at Sea", I thought it was okay. Now, after watching Alice's African Hunt, I think the subsequent works in the Alice series need to be improved. By the way, how many people were used to complete the production of "Alice's Hunt in Africa", and how much did it cost? ”

Roy Walter said: "The script was written by Walter and the painting was done by Ubu. Walter said that he was only an amateur painter himself compared to the master painter Ubu. Therefore, in the future, Walter will mainly be responsible for writing screenplays, designing deeply rooted cartoon characters and humorous plots. The rest of the art work is done by the team in Ubud. ”

Ubu Iwox is an old friend of the Disney brothers, and they co-founded Disney-Iwox Commercial Art Company and Laughter Animation Company in Kansas City.

Disney-Iwox's commercial art company and Laughter Animation Company have cooled down, while the newly formed Walt Disney Studios has plenty of money.

At the invitation of the Disney brothers, Ubu Iwox took the Kansas art team to Hollywood and joined Walt Disney Studios.

Together, a team of more than a dozen artists was on fire, so Walt Disney Studios only took a month and spent $750 to produce "Alice's Hunt in Africa."

Walt Disney Studios currently owns a total of 8 cartoons, and Roy Disney brought the negatives and copies of these 8 cartoons to New York, as well as the negatives and copies of the Hera mahjong commercial.

"My idea was that the launch of the Hera mahjong commercials and the screening of eight animated films by Walt Disney Studios would be a collaboration with the same distributor. Next, it's up to Benjamin to introduce the publisher. Li Kangping said.

"As for the publisher Chapman, I think Roy and Richard must have heard their names." Benjamin said, "With Mr. Chapman's help, Miss Veronica Chapman founded Chapman. Within five years, Chapman had grown rapidly, and they had a national film distribution system, with seventy-two movie theaters in thirty cities in twenty-one states. ”

"Last year, Miss Veronica Chapman married Mr. George Fontaine, who used to be a film actress. Now, we should call Miss Veronica Chapman Mrs. Fontaine, who did not manage much of the business after her marriage, and the Chapman Company was mainly managed by Mr. Fontaine. ”

"Chapman's footprint spans New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Philadelphia, Houston, Boston, and other big cities? What do we think? Commercials of Hera mahjong were shown in cinemas in these big cities, which was equivalent to advertising throughout the United States. Advertising? Will we pay Chapman $70,000? So as to further enhance the brand awareness and influence of Hera brand mahjong. ”

"Oh, $70,000! It's also too expensive! Roy Disney and Richard exclaimed.

"No way? This is the market price. They have a national film distribution system, and they are the rulers and the rule-makers of fees. Benjamin said helplessly? He added: "Rent their cinema to show cartoons? This business needs Roy and Richard to talk to them. ”

Li Kangping did not participate in such a matter as negotiating specific business, and Benjamin, Roy, and Richard promoted it.

A few days later, Roy Disney told Lee Kangping: "Chapman's business manager also thinks Alice's appearance is a little frivolous? The action beats more and more. Is this a matter of artistic creation? I've made a long phone call and told Walter that he'll be working on it in the future. So, Dr. Lee, you see, it's necessary to show our cartoons to more people? People's feedback is very important to us. ”

"Take a Chapman movie theater in Manhattan, for example, and we rent a screening room in that movie theater? For a week, you need to pay them $1,000 in rent. Is a movie ticket 20 cents? Even if all the tickets for every cartoon are sold out, and they are sold out for a week in a row? We only made just $1,000 at the box office! ”

"What's more? Do they also deduct laundry fees, processing fees, insurance premiums, inspection fees, license taxes from box office revenues? These fees add up to $580. In other words, we rent their screening room to show our cartoons, and we must be losing money! Roy Disney said resentfully.

Li Kangping asked, "Roy, didn't you suggest renting the distributor's screening room?" Since you made this suggestion, I thought you knew the market. ”

"Hey." Roy sighed, "Their exploitation is getting more and more brutal. Of course, we could have sold them the distribution rights to 8 cartoons, but their offer was too low, only $5,000. And they didn't just buy out the distribution rights of Alice and other cartoons, they wanted to buy out the copyright and trademark rights along with it! This is an unequal treaty that you can't accept, Dr. Lee, and neither can Walter and I. The fact is that if there is no distribution right, we will always have to look at the face of the publisher. ”

"The development of events seems to be deadlocked? Roy, you're the head of commercial at Walt Disney Studios, judge for yourself. And my principle is that the distribution rights can be sold, but we are determined not to sell the copyright and trademark rights. ”

"Dr. Li, then we can only rent a few screening rooms at a loss to screen our eight cartoons."

"Roy, you're up to the cracks."

"Rent a screening room in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C., and show it for a week, and the worst result is a loss of thousands of dollars."

"Roy, let's do it first, and think of it as spending money to advertise for Walt Disney Studios. Most importantly, it gets feedback from audiences in big cities. ”

The early days of Walt Disney Studios were actually quite difficult, and they explored and gradually improved their artistic creation, but they were limited by others in terms of business.

In the early autumn of 1923, the great physicist Niels Bohr and his wife visited the United States.

Bohr was the winner of the promise in 1922, and at this time he was in the limelight and the scenery was unlimited.

It has been learned that Bohr's visit to the United States has two main purposes. One was academic exchanges, and the other was to seek sponsorship from the Rockefeller Foundation to strengthen his Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Bohr's first stop in the United States was New York City, where he spent only one day before heading to Washington, where he was received by the new US President Coolidge.

Bohr then traveled to New York again to visit the management of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Bohr then worked on academic exchanges in New York.

Bohr was so popular that American physicists visited him in New York, including Michelson, the only American laureate and APS president.

Bohr was very busy, on the one hand, he exchanged academic problems with American physicists, and on the other hand, he shuttled between Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and the State University of New York, and gave several academic lectures in a row.

On the eleventh day after Bohr's arrival in the United States, Li Kangping finally had a chance to meet the great physicist face-to-face.

The exchange took place in the APS headquarters building on the campus of Columbia University. Bohr is burly and tall, his height is more than 1.9 meters, and he stands in front of you, which naturally produces a sense of oppression.

"I'm a conservative person, and you, Dr. Lee, are too radical."

These were the first words Bohr said after meeting Li Kangping.

Bohr was like an emperor, and American physicists came to meet him one by one.

Bohr originated in England, his Bohr model was proposed in England, his English is very good, and he communicates with his American counterparts in English.

"Mr. Bohr, I don't quite understand what you mean." Li Kangping responded with a modest gesture.

Sitting cross-legged in his chair with a cigar in his hand, Bohr took a puff and said, "I have just met Mr. Michelson, and I believe he found me to be a more conservative physicist than he expected, in any case more conservative than the younger generation of American physicists, like the Compton brothers, like you." Despite your good achievements, some of the scholarly views you hold seem to me to be simply terrible. Oh, Dr. Lee, look at you, are you scared by me? Smoke a cigar, do you smoke a cigar? Or cigarettes? ”

Li Kangping did look a little dazed, and after taking a few puffs of his cigar, he gradually regained his composure.

"Mr. Bohr, I still don't quite understand what you mean."

"Dr. Lee, they all say you're a genius in physics, like Mr. Sommerfeld, Mr. Einstein, and Mr. Michelson. Especially Michelson, he hates you, he loves you, he thinks you are the brightest genius of the younger generation of physicists. Dr. Lee, since you're so smart, don't you know what I'm talking about? ”

Mr. Bohr suddenly became a little aggressive, and he continued: "With regard to the wave theory of light, I feel that I am inclined to the oft-asked view that the field in a vacuum----- or rather in a gravitational field, is governed by the classical laws of electrodynamics. As for the question of conservation of energy, leaving aside its correctness in the usual sense entirely, what would become of energy if this principle had to be abandoned? And we have come across a peculiar state of affairs in quantum theory that makes it so easy to talk about the fundamental difficulties mentioned above, while still trying to be a serious physicist in the present crappy field of physics is not as sinful as it may seem at first. So, Dr. Lee, do you understand what I'm talking about now? ”

Li Kangping understood that Bohr at this time was inclined to the wave theory of light.

Before the quantum theory of light was born, physicists had no choice, and they all supported the wave theory of light.

In 1905, Albert Einstein proposed the quantum theory of light, and at this time, physicists had a choice.

When Bohr proposed Bohr's atomic model, he used the quantum theory of light to support his Bohr atomic model. This is documented.

Now, ten years have passed since the birth of Bohr's atomic model.

Supporting the wave theory of light is tantamount to opposing the quantum theory of light.

From this point of view, there is a contradiction between Mr. Bohr today and Mr. Bohr ten years ago on the question of the nature of light.