Chapter 145. [Case Nineteen] Inside the projection hall
I remember that when I was in middle school, color televisions had just become popular. And what followed were some video recorder equipment. For example, the early video tapes. It was on this kind of tape that I saw everything in my life.
The first naked woman. Later, VCD appeared. If anyone had such a machine at that time, he would definitely be considered a rich man, because at that time, the price was very high. But when it came to me
After I entered high school, DVDs became popular, and there were many small stores near my home that rented and sold CDs. I am more of a person who likes to patronize these small shops. A CD costs one yuan and you can rent it for a day.
At that time, the Internet was not as developed as it is now, so if you knew that a certain movie was being played but didn't want to go to the cinema to watch it, renting a CD to take home was a good option.
But at that time, I often believed the promotional posters on the disc covers, so what I rented home turned out to be a pirated disc. The so-called pirated disc is not just a reproduction of image quality, but a genuine one.
Someone took a video camera or other things and secretly filmed it in the cinema. I remember clearly that the first pirated disc I watched was "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou. Throughout the film, I was accompanied by
The thick echo in the cinema was used as reverberation, and the picture was skewed and double-imaged. It was also blurred from time to time due to the focus. There were people laughing when they saw a wonderful place, and someone suddenly stood up.
Get up and walk past the screen.
So when Mr. Li talked about their movie theater, I think I could imagine the scene at that time. And the reason why I asked him, what I am more concerned about is, what did those who watched the movie see?
Did a person walk past, or just saw a shadow.
But Mr. Li said that the person they complained about did not even exist, so I asked him what else happened later? Mr. Li told me that after receiving the complaint, because he could not find the person, he did not
People voluntarily admitted that as a theater chain, they could only apologize to those who watched the movie. A few were really stingy and wanted to care about it, so they refunded the ticket money, so the matter was settled. For this matter, they also
The employees were gathered together for a meeting to discuss how to avoid such a situation as much as possible. So someone proposed that each screening hall be equipped with a professional staff member to maintain order during the movie playback.
And they proposed to correct some inappropriate behaviors. Even if they can't be corrected, we can at least know who did it. This proposal was unanimously approved by everyone. After trying it for a few days, they felt that the effect was pretty good, but just when they felt that they should maintain it
When I went down, that night, there was also a midnight movie, and there was another problem in the same screening room.
Mr. Li told us that there was a young staff member in the hall this time, a girl. He had been standing by the passage where everyone was leaving after the screening. Maybe she had watched these movies countless times.
, but I wasn’t tired anyway, so I just played there with my mobile phone. Mr. Li said that towards the end of the second of the three movies, there was a burst of boos from the audience, and some people were saying: "You are being ridiculous, wandering around."
Go." Someone asked again, is the projectionist dozing off? Anyway, someone started, and everyone started to boo. So our staff wanted to see what happened, and then we discovered that on the big screen,
The picture has been tilted by about 30 degrees, so that one side is not within the scope of the screen cloth at all.
I smiled and told Mr. Li that I think the audience’s complaints are very normal. If it were me, I might have said something unpleasant at this time. Mr. Li nodded, symbolically agreed with me, and then said
, but the problem is that there is no projectionist at all for that midnight movie!
Hu Zongren asked Mr. Li, if there is no projectionist, how do you broadcast your movies? Mr. Li said, it is like this, because the midnight movie is a preferential benefit offered by the cinema for those night owls, and it can also be regarded as a promotion.
Strategy, but no matter what, it is late at night after all. If you ask us to leave one staff member in each hall, it is already asking people to work overtime. If we still leave the projectionist, I am afraid that life will not be so miserable.
Mr. Li told us that the projector does not actually require complicated operations. The programs are all set, and it has long passed the age of film. Double-click on the computer screen to play the film.
Who can't? So the projectionist in their cinema can only make optimal adjustments to the distance of the projector when it passes through the window.
Mr. Li explained to us that some movies now have different formats. For example, Indian movies are different from American movies, Chinese and Korean movies are different from Russian ones, but the size of the screen is fixed. At this time, some adjustments are needed.
The distance adjustment. But that night in the screening room, the projectionist went home after the adjustment was correct. All we had to do was have our staff play it when the movie started. That night, in the screening room,
No one was there at all.
When I went to the cinema with others to watch a movie, I always liked to choose the last row because the last row was often higher and there were fewer people. I especially preferred the middle seat of the last row because that place happened to be the most
I can watch the movie from a good angle, and at the same time I can also see the light emitted by the movie projector above me through the small window. When I was a child, I was naughty and ignorant. If there were few people in the cinema, I would pretend to accidentally reach out to those movies.
On the light screen, I left a huge fingerprint of my hand on the screen. And whenever I did this, I would always hear a voice of someone scolding me through the small hole.
So before that, I always thought that there was someone in that small room, and there must be someone.
Mr. Li went on to say that when the staff member saw that the screen was crooked and was thinking about what was going on, suddenly a huge human head flashed past and almost occupied the entire screen. Hu Zongren asked him what he said
, could it be that the audience in the last few rows stood up in anger? But Mr. Li shook his head and said, definitely not, because everyone saw that the head was upside down.
I took a deep breath, and was a little overwhelmed by this sudden fright. In order to cover up my panic, I quickly told Mr. Li that there were so many people in the theater, and everyone must have seen this weird look.
, you have been complained again, right? Mr. Li said, it is strange to say that many people must have seen the black shadow of the person's head at that time, but few seemed to have noticed that the person's head was upside down.
Maybe he noticed it, and probably thought it was because he was dazzled. Mr. Li went on to say that even our staff at the time didn't think about it in detail, but immediately ran to the screening room to check whether the machine was working properly.
It was crooked. When I ran to the back and took a look, it turned out to be a little crooked.
Mr. Li said that our projector is fixed with a tripod and the nuts are tightened. Unless there is a violent collision, it may tilt. When our staff saw that it was tilted, he thought it was a mouse.
And so on. When she was hurriedly trying to re-fix the machine, she suddenly heard the audience in the theater starting to make a loud noise. Someone was cursing: "What a fool! The whole screen is now black!"
It's so dark, you'd better turn on a light!" So our staff member wanted to see what was going on outside through the opening, but when she looked out through the small opening, she found that it was pitch black and she could see everything.
Less than.
Hu Zongren said that it was dark in the cinema, so there was nothing strange about it. Mr. Li said that no matter how dark it was, the emergency exit sign on the wall would still emit a weak light. But our staff member
She didn't see anything, so she tried to look closer. After saying this, Mr. Li moved slightly closer to me and Hu Zongren, probably in order to let us be more immersed in the scene. Then he said, the result
She discovered that it was not dark at all, but was blocked by something black. The black thing was a woman's long hair.
I tried to imagine the scene at that time. If it were me, I would probably be scared to death. Mr. Li said that those hairs were the back of a person with his hair hanging down. When our staff member just reacted and screamed
After making a sound, the body suddenly turned around and dropped a few inches, so that in the whole small square hole was a woman's face.
Mr. Li said that I heard these words from the staff member afterwards. I did not see it in person. She told us that the face looked very white, a bit sickly white. The cheeks were very thin and slightly swollen.
Sunken. The mouth is half open, but the corners of the mouth are downwards. It looks a little distressed. The eyes are also hollow, with dark circles and bangs, so no hair can be seen. The expression looked very scary under the circumstances.
The woman's mouth was half open and her lips were moving slightly, as if she wanted to say something.
Mr. Li said that the staff member was so frightened that he fell to the ground, covered his eyes with his hands and started screaming, trying to attract other colleagues with his screams, but there were few people in the screening room at night.
The sound was so loud that no one heard it. Not long after, she felt that her fingers covering her eyes seemed to have been touched by something cold, and then the thing began to forcefully open her fingers.
Mr. Li said that the staff member described the feeling of the cold thing as being like chicken skin that had been dead and left outdoors for a long time.