Chapter 123: The Birth of the World's First Cinema
The screen is playing the trailer of "The Count of Monte Cristo", which lasts for more than four minutes, and the plot clip is cut to the time when the Count of Monte Cristo was arrested and imprisoned.
The trailer should have been released earlier, but it took a lot of time because of the background soundtrack, the Brenda Theater Troupe is a theater troupe after all, and the band that comes with it can barely be considered regular, but it is certainly far from Harvey's requirements, and the Cromwell Chamber of Commerce ran around to finally bring Harvey a high-level classical orchestra, and it took a few weeks to run in and play the background music of the trailer.
The background music is a classical ensemble, mainly violin, mourning without losing sadness, most of the rhythm is played quickly and quickly with the plot, and listening to it like a tightrope makes people can't help but sweat.
People in this world don't even know what a movie is, but at this moment they see a trailer full of modern lens cut-out style.
Readers who are familiar with the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" will surely know what the trailer is talking about, it is the paragraph before the Count of Monte Cristo is imprisoned, about his fall from the best time of his life to a prisoner, the cutting angle between the shots is very sharp, and the content of just three minutes illustrates all the conflicts of interest that occur around the Count of Monte Cristo, the words of the different characters overlap with each other, highlighting the sharpness of the characters' conflicts of interest, and creating a coherent and oppressive atmosphere against the background music.
This is basically a common shooting method for most modern movie trailers, highlighting what is the selling point, the trailer of a Hollywood blockbuster will show off the special effects that burn money in addition to the plot conflict, in fact, this is also an important highlight of Hollywood blockbusters.
The film propaganda methods that have been tempered and developed after hundreds of years of experience have been used by Harvey in this world with no film foundation.
The effect is undoubtedly at the level of a nuclear bomb!
The world's first cinema on Earth appeared earlier than the first movie, because of the limitations of technology, when Edison invented the imperfect "projector" and founded the first cinema on Broadway Avenue in New York, USA, when movie theaters sold very few tickets, and as a result, the movie theater was crowded with people, and the entire Broadway street was surrounded by water, and people were proud to see the movie, even if it was just a glance.
A year later, when the Lumière brothers were playing "The Arrival of the Train" in a café in Paris, France, using a camera and projection machine that they had developed, one of the reporters present reported: "A horse-drawn carriage was being pulled by a speeding horse, and a woman sitting next to me was so frightened that she suddenly stood up. ”
It was an era of technological revolution, and people were accustomed to novelty but were still amazed by the birth of movies.
At that time, there were only simple black and white pictures, and the frame rate was far from deceiving the naked eye, but it had already caused a great sensation. There is a similar technology in this world, and people have long lost their sense of novelty in projection technology, they know the meaning of so-called projection, but in the end, it is as unfinished as it was in the time of the earth.
The more this happens, the more the promotional film of "The Count of Monte Cristo" becomes, showing the audience an unprecedented world in a crude way, a visual art that reaches the limits of their imagination, the most beautiful visual art, a projection art that they know but shows in a completely different way!
Harvey's creative art was interpreted by whimsical means to produce the trailer of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and the impact was so strong that all the onlookers in the audience were suffocated and stared, for fear that the sound of their breathing would disturb the projection of the strange picture in front of them, and people's eyes were full of curiosity about new things, and the search for what the picture could show.
The picture is colorful, and the vivid colors give it an unparalleled sense of realism, and the screen seems to become a door for the audience to cross another world.
The audience heard the muffled sound of the sea waves at the lively station, saw the vast and boundless sea, and seemed to smell the slightest smell of the sea.
In this era, the grandiose and intense background music can only be heard in the theater, and now everyone has no intention of listening to this artistic level of music, their attention is attracted by the picture, they try to analyze every meaning of the picture, and indulge in the door of this new world.
Sandra was one of them, and she was lucky enough to get into the crowd just in time for the trailer for The Count of Monte Cristo, a projector with a photographic crystal inside that stored a number of samples, mostly samples of Harvey and Kenneth's trial films, including A Day in the Life of a Sailor, Theatre Routine, Crossstreet and more.
Sandra didn't react after watching the promotional video of "The Count of Monte Cristo", she didn't know what these were, but when she realized it, she missed the opportunity to watch it, like a meteor that suddenly appeared, and she missed the opportunity to make a wish when she reacted. The next documentary began to play on the huge screen, and in fact many people were as amazed by these strange images as she was, and it took a long time to realize that it was the plot of the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo".
In the crowd, the middle-aged gentleman standing at the front of the crowd held his breath and muttered to himself: "It's amazing, is this a door to another world?" That's why I can see such a real and wonderful picture. ”
The girl who joined in the fun stared at the screen with bright eyes: "Oh~ Earl! It turned out to be the Count of Monte Cristo! He was as handsome as I thought I was, and I wish I was the Haydai who would fly away with the Count. ”
"Is that the plot of the Earl being framed and imprisoned? I was weirdly nervous when I watched it, oh my God~ This music made me have a heart attack. ”
"It's a lot better than a play, but it's a little short."
"What the hell is this? Is the projection showing what is really happening? Oh! I thought the ship was going to crash out of the screen and into me. ”
After a short silence, the audience whispered to each other, amazed by this novelty, many bear children crowded in front of them, if it were not for the glass shield through the estimate, they would have curiously flipped the projection cloth to see if there was really another world hidden behind it.
After the trailer for "The Count of Monte Cristo" was played, not a single viewer had any intention of leaving, and stayed to watch the carousel of dailies.
Sandra was watching too, but all her mind was drawn to the trailer and wanted to watch it again.
"Boom~"
The heavy sound of the train's steam engine sounded, and Sandra knew it was the one she was going to ride, but she couldn't take her eyes off the screen in front of her, everyone was the same. She gritted her silver teeth and planned to find a hotel in Elroy City tonight, and the expensive accommodation fee was regarded as a ticket to see this visual feast, and she was willing to give it.
However, the train entering the station did not leave for a long time, not because the train did not want to leave, but even the tracks were full of spectators, and some people simply climbed to the top of the carriage to look at the screen from a high position.
A similar situation occurs in all the places in the city of El Roy where projection screens are installed.
The train station in the city center, the central square, and the street in front of the Elroy Library are all surrounded by crowds.