Lin Zixuan understands how difficult it is for a Chinese girl to get ahead in Hollywood in this era, and the Chinese Exclusion Act alone will restrict the development of Chinese in the United States.

You can never play the leading role, only a small supporting role.

Moreover, in American films, the image of Chinese people has always been a symbol of ugliness and depravity, which still exists in later generations, and the scandalization of Chinese is a common phenomenon in American films.

Lin Zixuan wanted to persuade her to give up in the letter, because the road was too bumpy, but everyone has the right to choose life, and he is not qualified to make irresponsible remarks.

So, he encouraged the girl in a letter.

And told Huang Liushuang that now Chinese films are developing at a high speed, and Shanghai Star Film Company has shot the world's first sound film, which will soon be screened in theaters.

If you don't have a good time in Hollywood, you can come back to China, and Star Film Company welcomes you at any time.

Even when he was writing a letter to a strange girl, Lin Zixuan did not forget to promote his sound movie, and he wished that the whole world would know about it.

It is impossible to let the whole world know about nature, but after high-intensity publicity, most of the locals in Shanghai know that the people in the movie can speak, and it has become their after-dinner conversation.

If it weren't for the fact that the radio broadcast had not been done well, Lin Zixuan might have used the radio to bombard propaganda non-stop.

Colleagues in the film industry have mixed opinions on this.

Some people are watching Lin Zixuan's jokes, thinking that movies are performance arts, and letting people talk will ruin the audience's mood when watching movies.

Otherwise, why don't Americans make sound films?

Lin Zixuan is grandstanding, the audience will not accept it, and in the end he will definitely suffer, silent films are the foundation of the movie.

Some people also inquired about the price of the sound movie machine and were shocked.

A good quality video camera costs only 3,000 silver dollars, like the second-hand video camera that Du Yu bought from others only costs 1,000 silver dollars, while a sound movie camera costs 20,000 silver dollars.

I heard that Lin Zixuan also bought two, if the sound movie is not accepted by the audience, he will have to lose at least 50,000 yuan, plus the funds to renovate the theater, at least more than 100,000 yuan.

This Lin Zixuan is really a loser!

For a while, there were rumors in Shanghai that Lin Zixuan was a loser.

It is said that peers are enemies, this is someone singing about sound movies and smearing Lin Zixuan, they can't shoot sound movies themselves, and they can't make Lin Zixuan successful.

Once the audience accepts the sound movie, then who still watches silent movies, this Lin Zixuan is forcing them to death.

Zhang Shichuan is one of them.

He finally persuaded Shao Zuihum to invest in a kung fu feature film, which had just been filmed, and Lin Zixuan made another sound movie, and he had a feeling that he couldn't keep up with the trend.

Do you still want to make color films?

Is it really good that you are walking so fast? Can we still have fun together?

There is also a group of people who are waiting and watching, who understand the technology and know the reasons why Americans don't make sound films, but they are not sure about the future of sound films.

Lin Zixuan walked in front and gave them a way to explore, and they were very appreciative.

Lin Zixuan didn't care about the undercurrent of attack during this time, with the gradual growth of the star film company, the contradictions between him and other film companies will become deeper and deeper.

He knows the trend of the future, and he will go on firmly, after all, time waits for no one.

On September 1, 1922, No. 127 Jing'an Temple Road, Summer Spice Luxury Cinema.

Whether it is people who support Lin Zixuan, or people who want to see Lin Zixuan's jokes, they all come to the theater.

Hong Shen took the crew members to sit at the front, Yin Mingzhu was radiant, and even Ruan Lingyu asked for leave to run out of the Zhongxi Girls' School, which should be the result of Lin Xiaoling's instigation, she herself didn't have such courage.

In the private room, most of them are celebrities invited by Lin Zixuan to send tickets.

There are the directors of the Public Concession, the American Fei Xindun and several British directors, as well as several directors of the French Concession, which were invited by Feng Jingyao, and Song Ziwen and Song Tingling also came to cheer, the only regret is that Sun Zhongshan did not come.

It is said that Sun Zhongshan is very busy contacting various factions these days.

Feng Jingyao also heard the voices of those sound movies, and he attached great importance to tonight.

After all, hundreds of thousands of dollars were invested in the acquisition and renovation of the theater, and if there was a problem with the sound film, the investment would be wasted.

At half past seven in the evening, the movie officially began.

Unlike previous film screenings, there is no band accompaniment, and the sound comes from the record behind the curtain.

A melodious piece of music sounded, and subtitles began to appear on the curtain, all of which were the names of the director and actors.

Thirty seconds later, the music stops and the screen appears.

In a dance hall, a singer is singing "Night Shanghai" on the stage, and below is a drinking audience, and the whole dance hall is noisy.

The singing of the singers, the playing of the band, the conversation of the listeners, the sound of the bartender pouring wine, and the sound of pulling chairs......

These chaotic sounds rushed into the audience's ears, although chaotic, but distinct.

The audience can distinguish these voices, and it is easy to know what they are doing from the sounds, instead of relying on guesswork as in the past when watching silent movies.

It's amazing!

Lin Zixuan knew that just shooting this scene took a lot of time, mainly the recording work, how to make these messy sounds clear and understandable, this is a technical job.

At the end of the song, the courtesan Chen Bailu came down from the stage, skillfully maneuvering among all kinds of men, showing her charm, which attracted the eagerness of many men in the dance hall.

Then, when she saw a young man, she couldn't help but be stunned, and that young man was her young lover, Fang Dasheng.

As soon as the camera turned, Chen Bailu took Fang Dasheng back to the hotel, and the storyline began.

The most time-consuming thing in the whole movie shooting is the opening scene, Lin Zixuan made such a difficult clip in order to perfectly show the advantages of sound movies in front of the audience.

The following were all shot in a closed environment, and there was not much background sound effect, so it was easier to record.

The audience is still reminiscing about the scene in the ballroom just now, the sound is too real, and it is a completely different feeling from watching a silent movie.

This time, you can not only watch, but also enjoy an auditory feast.

Just like the audience of later generations watching a 3D movie for the first time, the strong visual impact will indeed be shocking.

The sound continued to echo over the theater, and it could be heard clearly no matter where you sit.

This is also the reason why Lin Zixuan chose the summer spice luxury movie theater, which seems to have taken into account the problem of sound reverberation when it was built.

Or maybe it wasn't the sound that was in mind, but the character of Spanish architecture.

After many test screenings, Lin Zixuan felt that this architectural style was most suitable for the screening of sound films.

Because it is a sound movie, there is no need to insert subtitles between the plots, so the plot is coherent, so that the audience has no time to be distracted and immersed in the movie.

In Lin Zixuan's view, as long as there is no audience leaving the stage in the first 20 minutes, it means that the sound movie is accepted by the audience.

Now it seems that he succeeded, and the era of sound films has come!