Living in the Hong Kong Film World

Chapter 606 Improvement of Recording Equipment
There was no opening ceremony, but after the meal this morning, the brothers walked through the stage according to the position of the previous rehearsal, and took some shots of the crowd.

The script written by Fei Nan is very simple, it is just the most basic three-act structure, from Huo Yuanjia practicing martial arts when he was young, creating the Jingwu Sports Club, and then defeating foreign strongmen, the Chinese people are excited, and he is regarded as a thorn in the side of the Neon Army. , conspired to frame him, and was finally invited to fight by Hongkou Dojo. In the decisive battle, he beat his opponent to the ground, but in the end he fell to the ground tragically because of poisoning. The length is relatively short, about 60 minutes or so.

But it takes a lot of energy and time to shoot these 60 minutes.

The first batch of film that Zheng Zhengqiu assisted in purchasing is already on the way, but it will take two or three days to arrive. They can only use the existing stock in their hands to shoot.

In order to save film, Zhang Shichuan had to let the on-site actors rehearse many times before shooting.

Feinan was not on the set. He was in Xujiahui, working with EMI's technicians to improve the phonograph recording equipment.

The founder of EMI is a Frenchman whose Chinese name is Le Bangsheng.

In Shanghai, he started by setting up a stall along the street to play records. Later, he opened a foreign company and got the agent of the French EMI company, specializing in the sale of various phonographs, records, film machinery and films produced by the EMI company in Shanghai.

In order to expand the business scale, Le Bangsheng is preparing to launch record recording activities. For this purpose, he specially bought recording equipment from France, and hired a professional technician named Freddy to come to Shanghai.

This technician was Feinan's target.

The current movies are all silent movies, which are actually limited by technical equipment.

At present, the film that uses optical recording has not yet been invented, and because of the problems of engraving technology and rotational speed, a single side of a vinyl record can only record a maximum of 5 minutes of sound, which is stretched for the use of feature films.

Therefore, Feinan spent 33 Extraordinary Energy Values ​​in exchange for the production principle and related materials of 12-inch [-]-rpm LP records from the system, and planned to transform several gramophones for use in movies.

Le Bangsheng attached great importance to Fei Nan, especially the new technology he said could greatly extend the recording time of records.

You know, most of the cost of a record is concentrated in the record itself.

The same record can only record one song originally, but if five songs can be recorded at once, it is equivalent to reducing the cost to one-fifth of the original cost!

This is a huge technological innovation!
Therefore, he told Freddy that he must cooperate with Feinan to make this kind of machine.

With detailed information and technology, and the assistance of professional technicians, Feinan quickly transformed a 33-rpm LP recording device, and successfully achieved a super-long recording of 20 minutes on one side.

Le Bangsheng was very excited, because Freddy said that he had mastered the transformation method of this equipment.

Excited, Le Bingsheng gave Feinan a hard discount and sold the equipment to him at the cost price.

Feinan was not too polite, and directly ordered ten sets, cleared EMI's inventory in one fell swoop, and transformed them all into 33-rpm LP recording equipment.

On the day of the delivery, Fei Nan called his brothers from the Fist of Fury to come with them, and brought all the equipment back to the set with a cart.

After paying, Feinan said that he wanted to express his gratitude to Freddie technician alone, but Le Bingsheng, who was immersed in the dream of getting rich, didn't care and readily agreed.

Went to the warehouse workshop, Feinan came out soon, bid farewell to Le Bangsheng and left.

After he left, Le Bangsheng couldn't wait to close the store, ran to the warehouse workshop, excitedly pulled Freddie, took out the only remaining intact equipment that was hidden, and started to rebuild.

However, Freddy, who was equally excited, took the tools and took apart the equipment, but fell into confusion.

He completely forgot how the equipment was modified, and he didn't have any memory left.

Fei Nan, who returned to the set with the equipment, directly handed over the equipment to Dan Du Yu, who also served as the sound engineer of the crew.

When shooting, he will decide the placement of the recording equipment, so that while obtaining the best recording effect, the equipment will not appear in the picture, so that it will not be seen.

While they were busy, Long Si, who was far away in Fengtian Mansion, finally left Fengtian Mansion and stepped on the train going south.

"Mr. Long, I'll take you here."

The person who spoke was Commander Zhang's personal captain. He looked straight at Long Si and said seriously, "Send you here, my responsibility has been fulfilled, but I want to remind you that Commander doesn't want you to come back here again."

Long Siyi wore a long gown and a white silk scarf, with a tall and straight figure.

Hearing the captain's warning, he smiled lightly: "Don't worry, I'm not interested in your place."

"Goodbye then."

The captain of the personal army nodded, and told the people behind him: "Let's go!"

Long Si watched them get off the car, then turned around and looked at the fellow passengers in the carriage.

Looking around, he couldn't help being surprised. The people in the carriage were hidden dragons and crouching tigers. With just one glance, he could see several extraordinary characters.

Whether it was a coincidence or someone deliberately arranged it, he didn't know, but he just took a step forward and said seriously: "Everyone, I'm sorry for delaying everyone."

Because he had to escort him to the car, the soldiers contacted the station master and delayed the car's departure by 5 minutes.

In the carriage, everyone heard the words, but it seemed like they didn't hear them, and no one answered.

Long Si didn't care, he had already done all the courtesy he should have, and whether he accepted his love or not was someone else's business, he couldn't control it.

Stepping to the bunk near the carriage door, Long Si sat down and smoked a cigarette slowly.

The whistle sounded, the train started, and watching the scenery passing by outside the window, Long Si flicked his sleeves, and suddenly a brand new silver dollar appeared in his palm.

Unlike ordinary silver dollars, the front of this silver dollar is impressively engraved with the words "Made in the Ming Dynasty of China in ten years".

The train quickly left Fengtian Mansion, and the wilderness outside the car window became desolate, and everything in sight was a snowfield.

Bang!

The door at the junction of the carriages was suddenly pushed open, and a conductor came in cursingly, carrying a half-grown boy, and threw him to the ground.

"You brat, don't die!"

The boy's body was covered with snowflakes, his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes were covered with hoarfrost, his face was blue from the cold, and he was shivering.

Long Si was the closest to the carriage door, got up when he saw this, and asked, "What's wrong with him?"

Hearing his question, the train conductor couldn't help complaining: "This brat doesn't want to die! He dared to steal the train and hide on the roof of the carriage. If I hadn't discovered it, he would have frozen to death on it!"

Long Si was taken aback, squatted down, stretched out his hand to wipe off the frost and snow on the boy's face, and asked softly, "What's your name? Where's your adult?"

The boy was shivering from the cold, his lips were trembling, and he muttered in a trembling voice: "I'm going to Shang Hai... I'm going to find Uncle Immortal..."

(End of this chapter)