Lin Zixuan did not forget that he came to Europe to promote films, and for this purpose he specially visited the British film industry.

British cinema flourished in the early years, and made great contributions to filming techniques and technological innovations.

But since 1909, American and French films have dominated the LinkedIn market, leading to a sharp decline in British film production.

In 1916, Britain imposed an entertainment tax, which dealt a serious blow to the operation of cinemas.

After the end of the First World War, foreign films came in a steady stream, with British films accounting for only 5% of the films released in the country, and only a handful of films were exported.

The British film industry can be said to be extremely depressed, and many film companies have closed their doors.

This is similar to the Chinese film industry, under the impact of American and French films, it is not easy for domestic films to survive.

However, as more and more funds enter the film market, Chinese films are about to gain opportunities for rapid development.

In 1925, there were about 60 domestic feature films, and in 1924 there were only 25.

In order to sell his film copies, Lin Zixuan found a film dealer in London, and these people are actually second-class dealers.

There is no way, he has no acquaintances in the British film industry, so he can only find middlemen to do business.

Movie dealers buy copies and sell them to cinemas, or they control several cinemas themselves, and they decide what films are shown in theaters.

Lin Zixuan took out the box office results and media evaluation of "Killer Li Ang" when it was screened in the United States.

Although the box office data is not too pretty, it is very good as an oriental film, and the film has the experience of being screened in the United States. Woolf, the film dealer, happily bought the copy.

The box office was the most convincing, and he knew that the film would help him make money.

At the time of leaving. Lin Zixuan saw a young Englishman walking over.

The young man asked the film dealer, Woolf, to arrange a theatrical screening of his film, but Woolf flatly refused the request. He also criticized the youth.

It seems that something went wrong when shooting the movie, the cost was seriously overspent, and the results were not as expected.

The young man left rather depressed, and Lin Zixuan didn't pay much attention to it.

He didn't know that this person was called Alfred Hitchcock, who later made many thriller and suspense movies and became a world-famous master of suspense films.

In 1925, the future master of cinema directed a film for the first time, and the film was called "The Garden of Joy", which was based on the novel.

Some of the film's exterior locations were shot in Italy. When entering Italy, the film was confiscated by customs, and although the seized film was later agreed to be returned, the crew paid a large fine.

The film was filmed in Munich, Germany, and Hitchcock and Irma, who was his fiancée at the time, were penniless, and they could not even afford a ticket back to London.

After the film was made, it was sealed by the company until March 1926, when it premiered to the British press.

If Hitchcock was a big fat man like later generations, Lin Zixuan would definitely be able to recognize it. Maybe they will fool him into going to China to shoot a movie.

But Hitchcock in his youth was only a little chubby, even slightly handsome, and his image was not the same as that of later generations.

Lin Zixuan and the film master missed it like this.

But he was not without gains, when he came into contact with people in the film industry. He stumbled upon a piece of news that surprised him.

The British had already built black-and-white television sets and successfully broadcast a picture in public.

This was reported in the British press.

The man who made the television was called Baird, and in 1924 he invented a simple mechanical scanning television. The TV can faintly and ignore images from a few feet away.

Baird made its first public presentation to the public in January 1925 at Selfridges on Oxford Street, London.

Subsequently. He performed the installation again to about forty members of the Royal Society.

A British magazine described the world's first television set as follows.

"This TV is basically made from scrap materials. Optics are lenses for some bicycle lights. The frame is made of a day enamel basin, while the wires are a makeshift patchwork of cobweb-like things. The biggest miracle is these materials of very poor quality. Once he arranges it, it is possible to produce images. ”

Lin Zixuan didn't expect TV sets to appear so early, and he felt that TV sets would not be made until the 50s.

He remembers that in the 80s, black-and-white televisions were still a novelty in China, and it was only in the 90s that they became popular.

It's an invention that can change the world more than movies, and with television, you can sit at home and know what's going on in the world, and there's all kinds of TV dramas and entertainment to enjoy.

He visited Mr. Baird with excitement to get a glimpse of the television sets of the era.

If you can invest in this invention, it will be a lucrative business opportunity.

However, Lin Zixuan was disappointed.

The TV was nothing like what he had imagined, like the gap between a desktop computer and an ultra-thin notebook.

The picture sense is very poor, the shaking is terrible, and the sound cannot be transmitted.

He chatted with Baird about how it would take at least a few years to achieve long-distance transmission of programs with synchronized sound and picture, and Baird's research was just beginning and he was looking for funders.

After thinking about it, Lin Zixuan abandoned the project on the grounds that it would take too long and cost too much money.

He felt that instead of taking the risk of investing in television, it would be safer to make a TV series at that time.

After seeing this wonderful invention, he prepared to leave England for France, and from there he returned to China, ending his trip abroad.

On October 18, 1925, Lin Zixuan came to France.

Britain and France belong to the same Europe, and his speech in England soon spread to France, causing great repercussions, and his arrival was warmly welcomed by Chinese students in France.

There are a large number of Chinese students studying in France, because work-study in China to France has become a social trend.

This is the trend of work-study thought, which regards the separation of labor and labor as the root cause of social malaise, and advocates the combination of work and study.

In 1912, Li Shizeng and others initiated the organization of the "Society for Studying in France and Thrift" in Beiping, and the Society established a preparatory school for studying in France in Beiping, sending more than 80 people to study in France.

In 1917, the Sino-French Education Association was established in China to organize work-study activities in France.

Between 1919 and 1920, more than 1,600 Chinese students arrived in France in 20 batches.

These international students studied in France and worked in factories at the same time, and their lives were relatively difficult, and various groups were formed, which is also the foundation of the domestic study in France.

In the welcoming crowd, Lin Zixuan saw a young man who was not tall squeezing over and greeted him enthusiastically in Sichuanese, with a bit of a heavy accent, and he didn't hear it clearly.

He shook the young man's hand vigorously and said a word of comfort.

"You have suffered in France." (To be continued.) )