Movies , Wild Stages and Clubs
There was about three kilometers from the front door of the ore dressing plant to the back door. At that time, there was a large open space on the back door, which was often used to play movies.
At that time, there were no cinemas, and movies were all wild platforms. At the beginning, I was by the river at the factory gate. I hung up the white screen by the river on the side of the factory, and then placed the projector across the river, and set up a platform by the river. (Zhang Xingming's house is at the back of the dormitory building, here is in front, and there is also a yard as big as a blue court in the middle)
From the road down to the waterside, there is a gentle slope of 30 degrees, which is more than ten meters. The entire gentle slope is tied into cages with iron wire and connected one by one. Children usually crawl around here to play wars. When the movies are played, people sit on these stone cages around the projectors and watch them. They carry small benches and sit on the road on the shore. There are not so many cars in this era, and the factory convoy does not leave the car at night, so there is no danger.
At that time, the river was still very clear, and there were fish. In summer, the river was full of children. They took a bath and took a fishing bath. After heavy rain, the river water would rise. It often swelled across the bridge deck and drowned people. Later, the water became less and less and dirtier. In the past 1990s, it was just a stinky ditch, full of garbage.
At that time, the movies played by the river were not very impressive, and it took too long. There were only two deep impressions. One was a naval battle film, which seemed to be called "Treasure Island" and the other was a comedy film. It seemed that the actors in it were all talking about crosstalk, which was called "Laughter". Both movies were color films.
There is a line in Zhenbao Island: Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, I am potatoes, please answer. The children have been calling me for many years. The smile is: Big hair, two hairs, three hairs, four hairs, five yuan, and six yuan to catch them. It is a classic memory of this era.
Later, the ore dressing factory built a rough crushing workshop, and the small train lane moved to the river, so the position of the movie was occupied. The movie was changed to the outside of the third factory. Outside the third factory, the back door of the factory was here. It was the third workshop of the ore dressing factory, commonly known as the third factory. It started to build a staff club, which is the cinema after only a few times.
The movies played outside the Third Factory seem to be foreign films, Chaplin's "Modern Times", and movies from India or Pakistan. I don't remember the titles, they are all black and white films, all of which are very miserable. Many people were crying when watching them. However, the movies played outside the Third Factory look much more spectacular than those played by the river. The river is close to the family area, and people come and go, and they can't feel anything. When the Third Factory is outside the Third Factory, people have to come over from their homes and carry stools with their families. Hundreds and thousands of people are talking and laughing, and the children are hiking around in the crowd. Because of the time after the movie is played, the crowds of people who were originally silent started to rush, calling the children to ask for things to find, and singing and whistling. It was so lively. The crowds were crowded together and they did not disperse until the gate of the mineral processing plant.
The first movie I will never forget when the staff club was built in 1982. It tells the love story of young people during the Great Revolution, called "Maple", which is also a color film. I don't remember much about the content. I only remember that the male protagonist is very handsome and the female protagonist is very beautiful. Both of them are Red Guards, but they belong to different hostile factions, often fighting and shooting with guns. In the end, the heroine jumped down from the building with a national flag, and the red flag was flying in the air. That was the first time I saw the slow motion in the movie and felt so beautiful.
Since I built a club, I have to spend money watching movies. One ticket costs 2 cents, two cents, and sometimes some are expensive. It seems that "The Prisoner of the Sea" is 50 cents, but I haven't seen it, and the family doesn't have that much money to spend.
What I remember most during that time was to hang out in the cinema, evade tickets, and fight wits and courage with ticket inspectors.
At that time, TV was not popular. There were more than 200 households, with only four TVs, all of which were 9 inches black and white. Every house was filled with people all night long, and there were people outside the windows in summer. Because they were children, they would not leave regardless of whether the owner was happy or not, and wanted to take a look. At that time, it was the RB cartoon "The Emperor of the Forest". Because every house was not closed, the doors were closed, and the sound could be heard far away. Every night, as soon as the advertisement of He Dazhuang sounded, the children would run to the houses with TV. The little lion Leo's temptation is greater than that of any game, as well as the domestic cartoon "Ginseng Doll" and many cartoons made in shadow puppets, but I can't remember the name.
So watching movies became a hot topic. At that time, people, because they were young people, their eyes lit up when they were watching movies. When they came to the movies to sell tickets, the crowded scenes made the cinemas so jealous that they were not like spending money to buy tickets, but completely like robbing tickets. The young and strong squeezed in desperately, shouting and scolding, and the crowded ones were thrust in a smug manner, and they jumped up from behind and climbed to the ticket gate from the crowded heads. They often started to fight. They didn't know who beat whom. Everyone scattered and immediately squeezed back, leaving a bad guy with bruised and swollen faces lying on the ground outside.
The ticket gate at that time was not like the open counters like today. If it were to be built at that time, it would be squeezed apart in one day. The ticket gate at that time was a bit like today's bank service window, with a small hole under the bulletproof glass that could only reach into one hand, but it was a little bigger and could reach into two or three hands. You don't need to find change when buying tickets, so you have to prepare the right money.
When buying tickets, countless hands rushed to stuff them into the hole, but they were not glass, but iron plates. They couldn't see each other inside and outside. They finally reached in and couldn't see them. They could only open their hands and wait for the people inside to stuff the tickets into their hands. They took a lot of effort to pull out their hands, clenched their fists and struggled outside the crowd before they could see them. They could not pull out their hands without force, because there were more hands outside that were stuffing them into them.
Sometimes, when you reach in two or three hands at the same time, you don’t know who took your money. Often, some people in society squeezed into the crowd, stuffed their hands into the hole, and then took the money from others. After taking the money, they pulled out their hands and ran away. The person who was taken did not know, so they reached out and waited to get the ticket. At this time, under normal circumstances, those who sell tickets would put a ticket for him, which was considered comfort.
There are six doors in front and back of the club, and the front is the main door. There are three door holes in a row, which are seventeen or eighteen meters wide. There are two small doors in total, two 2 meters wide on the side. They are used for movies to end the movies. At this time, an acquaintance works at the club and sneaks in through the side door in advance, and then stands in the aisle to watch the movie. The side door is usually locked with iron chains and padlocks. The two children pull the handle on the door and pull it hard, and the gap in the middle can be drilled in. However, I usually pull the door because my head cannot drill in. Including the iron railings on the window, they all drilled in, and I was the only one outside sighing.
Those who come in and those who climb in can only stand and watch it. At that time, there will be no empty seats waiting for you. A movie, the first and second floors will definitely be sold out. None of them will be left, and only those who cannot buy tickets.
Children want to watch movies for free, either pulling the back of an adult's clothes while checking the ticket. However, this method is not very effective. Most of the time, the person who is pulled will throw you away, so they have to stare at some kind-looking middle-aged and elderly lesbians who are comrades, and they can only occasionally. Either they are inside and outside, and two people join in to buy a ticket, one takes the ticket in, and then find a place that is not noticed to hand out the ticket stub. At that time, the ticket did not have the main and secondary volumes, and only a whole ticket. The person who checked the ticket would tear it off your hand. The person who checked the ticket would just tear it down from your hand. The person who checked the ticket would hold it in his hand. The person who went in front would hold it in his hand, and the second person would hold it in his hand. Then let the person who checked the ticket to tear it once and then go in.
There was a time when everyone bought a ticket together and found tall classmates to go in. Then he got into the toilet and opened the window of the toilet. The outside jumped from the window to the toilet, and then entered the screening room from the toilet. I don’t know why the windows of the toilet had no railings. However, this method was discovered shortly after, because the toilet was next to the manager’s office, which was too close.
There was a movie inside, and a group of children circled around the club. Sometimes when the performance was performed for a while, someone would leave and the side door would open. At this time, you would like to go in and the staff would care about it. They all acted, so they went in and watched the half. Although they were not fully watched, they were very excited.
When the club was first put into use, when I was playing "Maple", I included eleven of my people in our class who watched the movie for free. They saw it from the beginning and end, mainly because of Li Shucai's credit. I don't know how he discovered it, so he led everyone from outside the club and Building 20 to the sewer. There are two sewers in the residential buildings in the northeast, one is the toilet sewer, and the other is the heating sewer. We drilled the heating channel, which is more than one meter high and more than one meter wide. There was no light, black, but there were no obstacles, and it was very spacious. Li Shucai led the way in front, and we followed behind because I was the youngest and lined up at the end. To be honest, I couldn't see anything. I touched the back of the person in front and followed him, and there was no one behind. I was very scared at the time.
There were many bends in the middle. To be honest, it was the only time I had drilled into the sewer in my life. I lived in a bungalow at that time. I hadn't touched it yet. I was afraid and followed the people in front of me, and I couldn't tell the difference between the east, west, south and north.
When I finally climbed out, I was already in the club. It was covered with an iron plate in the corner at the end of the screening hall and opened with a push. I saw the movie like this. It was the third time I watched the color film. The first time I watched "Laughter" and "Treasure Island" by the river. After watching the movie, Li Shucai, as a hero recognized by everyone, everyone gathered money to buy him three cents of candy.
But for some reason, there were only eleven people, only his clothes were rubbed into the sewer. When he got home, his father beat him so much that he couldn't go to school the next day. When he was in junior high school, everyone would use this matter to attack him from time to time. Everyone analyzed that it was probably the first one and wiped it clean. When the ones behind him were gone, there were no heaters after all, and there were not many, haha.
I only drilled this passage once, watched a movie, and was locked from the inside by the club and never successfully entered.
When I was in junior high school, my family’s financial situation became much better, so I could buy tickets openly when watching movies. It was also from then on that time that TV became popular, and the tickets for movies increased to one or two yuan. Fewer people watched movies, and gradually no one watched them. The club became a place for meetings in the factory. However, when the school borrowed the club to hold a school-wide conference, they would watch movies there. After graduating from junior high school, they never went in again.
Chapter completed!