In the 70's and 80's, an open-air movie in the countryside was a lively event. As soon as I heard that the movie ship to come, the Zhuangshang alleyway was busy, you take a chair he took a big stool, there are also small stools, small chairs put in the front row, a step in a hurry, for fear of occupying a good position. Occasionally, they will fight for the seat, fight red in the face, and some even fight, and finally are not settled, not to see a movie well, and nothing deep hatred, today noisy, tomorrow the same encounter will talk.
The funniest, sometimes obviously then occupied a good place, after dinner to look, the big stool has been to other places, the heart also laughs bitterly, but not good to say who, who knows where you put, sometimes looking for stools do not ask you to look for half a day counted, and some even the end of the movie put on the end of the day, only to find their own stools. There are also people who are confused to take the wrong people stool to take home, so then the back of the big stools in every household will be written on the name, or written on the stool legs, which is also a feature of the time.
Sometimes there is also misinformation that there is a movie tonight, the result is a busy scene in the former Temple Square, big stools and small stools in rows, hustle and bustle are for the movie. Waiting for the dark can not see the movie boat, only to know that everything is a fake news, reluctantly dragged stools, or clamped, or bar, the mouth cursed the person who passed the news. Know who is also nothing famous three said, people are also listening to what people say.
Sometimes far to see the movie boat came, a pass ten ten pass a hundred, the former Temple Square all of a sudden stools full, the speed is super-fast, there are called younger siblings to occupy, their own home to get a stool, there are called brothers and sisters, there are called mom and dad, some also use the brick tiles to scratch a box, indicating that his turf, the result is conceivable, you people go, guaranteed that it is not yours, the wind and fire for the movie. Finally, the movie boat did not stop at the pier, across the bridge of the clamped ditch, north to the next village to go, the gas of some people towards the movie boat threw the mud block, are like a deflated ball, empty happy one.
Sometimes, the movie boat suddenly came late. Some people say that there is a movie and no one believes it, and so on the movie boat machine start roar sound really go to see, the heart and chagrin, a good position are occupied by others. Movie location is the rotation of the wind and water, who do not dare to say, the next time or a good position. Watching movies, really let people like to make people worry.
We are located in the Lixiahe area, which is a water town, and the waterways are well connected, and there is not a single village that is not connected to the waterways, so the movie show is organized by the commune and the township cultural station, and the movie boat goes to the villages to show the movie.
The old villages had no electricity, the movie boat is a boat with a wooden canopy with a generator, the cable is pulled directly to the projection site, the projectionist is sometimes late on the movie boat to rest, rewind the movie, the movie is played back to the next time to play, do not catch the night boat.
At that time, the projectionist is the most capable person, to where all the pieces are popular, today is not yet finished, there are people around to ask tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to which the farm on the play. The movie boat arrived at the pier, the two hairy poles, the movie screen up a fork, the speaker hangs, the wire suspended to the square in the center of the four immortal table, four immortal table at that time are borrowed from the villagers, the four immortal table legs tied to a vertical bamboo pole, broadcasting line is tied to the end of the bamboo pole, the preparatory work is ready.
At this time, the family is a little bit of a surplus of people have spare food at home, fried some broad beans, peas, sunflower seeds for the children's mouth peeling, to relieve their hunger. Who didn't fry, the little ones also followed the light, then the adults and children are simple, you a few, he a few, brought to the movie theater to eat is delicious, basically a movie down, the ground is full of shells, plus some small sugar stretcher, selling candy candy candy paper, anyway, it is a mess.
The projector came early, the night team also managed to eat the night meal!
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The projector looked at the field of personnel came almost, on the microphone to pick up, introduced today's show what the movie, told everyone to keep quiet, began to show. Projection lights off, the projector a column of light shot to the screen, the projector's two discs disk a high one to turn, the projector rhythmically ticking.
The field is quiet only hear the sound of the movie coming out of the speaker, people are watching this difficult open-air movie, sometimes half a month, sometimes a month, meet the weather is bad and sometimes even two months to have a movie, everyone don't mention how much focus.
The movie occasionally jumped, the projectionist will use the hand pressure, sometimes constantly with a small brush in the machine cleaning. Sometimes the movie will often burn the film, only to see the projectionist to open the projection lamp, skillfully take down the disc tray, cut off the section of the burnt film, and then glued to continue to show. The cut section, sometimes there will be a long, or cut a few sections, the children are grabbing to take to see, to the light, you pass him, he passed you to see, the projection light is out, the film do not know to whom it was passed, only to hear who do not know who the mouth of the sound of muttering.
Generally, there are two movies, and the good ones are in the back. Just like that, our childhood teenagers a lot of classic old movies with me through, "the shining red star", "plains guerrillas", "never die of radio waves", "war in Shanghai", "Yangcheng secretly", "the reconnaissance of the Yangtze River" and so on. Watching a red heart, blood boiling! Sometimes, during the summer and winter vacations, they would ask for an extra movie, and the projectionists sometimes had to agree to serve them with good food and drink, so familiar that they couldn't refuse. Sometimes some good-looking just out of the film, the projectionist also organized the village young people to go to neighboring villages "run the film", and other people over there after the film ship to take back and then rewind the film and then play it again, it is called "run the film". The movie came back that cheered, don't mention how much surprise.
To be honest, there were no cultural and entertainment activities in the countryside at that time, and electric light and television were all in the fantasy, and the only thing you could enjoy was the radio and the radio. You say, come to a movie, all cheering like ah, do your study homework in advance. The night can be crazy, can game, can play. Adults will not watch as usual, do not let go out, the whole village is watching a movie, which do not let the children go out to the movies, the neighbors will say it! Don't mind so tight ah, give the child to see a movie, to increase knowledge, broaden their horizons, see the outside world, should let go. At that time, if the parents did not let their children watch movies, the children would think that the parents were unreasonable, and the parents would say something later, not so loud, so the parents generally know this reason.
Then the countryside has electricity, TV is slowly more, but every night to 9:00-10:00 to come to the point. As long as the movie boat came to the former Temple Square to show the movie, the movie theater is still crowded, as in the past situation. I remember that the enthusiasm to see the movie was unprecedented, a little rain, never close the army, umbrellas wearing raincoats continue to see, not fall on the ground running water, the movie machine can not be projected, will not be withdrawn. Sometimes, the rain stopped also ran to the movie theater to see if there is no continue to put, do not miss.
At that time, as long as the neighboring villages show movies, all try to find out. Usually school dare not go, a winter and summer vacation will not have our outdated, always inquiring about neighboring villages which have a movie on the farm, as soon as it gets dark on the collective action. Once during the summer vacation, we found out that there was a movie at night in a neighboring village north of the Bengtu River, so we gathered early after dinner and waited for our older brothers who were a little bit older than us to go with us. Because there is no bridge over the Bengtu River, the ferry will not let people cross the river at night, so they have to go there by boat, and the big brother can do it.
The big brother ate the evening meal, took a pole Penny, our line of twenty or thirty, swarming to the mouth of the dike, on a six or seven tons of cement boat moored in the dike. Big brother Penny a deep and shallow, the sound of falling water, a press and close, the boat to the north bank, the moonlight cement boat a moment of effort to float across the river a few hundred meters wide. Arrived at the north bank of the river, the big brother called for a good headcount, and then with a good boat before the pile, and the boat boat boat rope also with a good, Bengtu River river often have a towing team boat, motorized boats go, for fear of the waves will be the boat pile shaking loose drift away, you can not return home.
All partners monkey-like legs to the neighboring villages ran away, not waiting for the big brother. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product. Big brother said while walking, three small, when the movie is going to end home to come, you come out early, the end of a little don't look, I let them know not to wait for me, tease them a little bit, a few of us promised the big brother.
That time we watched in the neighboring village is "since the ancient heroes out of youth", to the present are still fresh in our memory. Look at the movie is almost over, the big brother made a wink towards me, made a movement, I pulled a few close to the corner of the coat, run away. A smoke to the north bank of the Bengtu River with the boat position, fortunately, the big brother has experience, the front pile is loose by the wave ups and downs pulled up and fell into the water, leaving the back of the deep pile with, the boat did not drift away.
The big brother also arrived, picked up the Penny placed in the paddy field. The three little, you quickly get into the boat, the big brother greeted. Some come one after another are on the boat, the moonlight, there is a set of dark shadows in the back running, know that slow may not get on the boat, the intensity is not less than a championship final. Early to the boat everyone is basically panting, sweating.
Big brother pulled off the boat boat back pile, Penny a force, the boat offshore and go, fast an arrow jump on the boat, and then have to be pulled, a foot on the boat, do not fall into the river, and then the back of the flop flop flop to jump in the river to go ...... A lot of small partners on the boat laughed. There are also hooting and hollering on the shore, some with whistles in their mouths, some cursing and grinning, some crying, see the big brother ignore, are directly down to the river to swim, treading water to catch up with the water, one hand holding up the clothes, one hand to swim in the river, the children of the water township, all of them are waves, slippery very slippery. Big brother to see no one on the shore, the boat slows down, the river swims in the river are followed up, then instructed the boat to the river some of the partners to pull on board, count, after all, come out to watch a movie together, can not be lost. The countryside children, sometimes is so amusing.
This is the past many years, I have always remembered to see a movie of the corner running around, bittersweet years of time.
With the growing normalization of rural power supply, the improvement of living conditions, every household has a TV, and then later cable TV, digital TV, network popularity. The open-air movie, like a river, can no longer arouse the enthusiasm of modern people. Occasionally there is an open-air movie in the village, but it is also sparse, lonely, not many people watch. The only way to understand the old days is to have the past as the wind blows through your heart, and the years are long.
Open-air movies were once popular for a while, a kind of distant old time, can no longer find that kind of breath and flavor. But the memory of this time has been forever haunting us in our hearts, a hundred times, a lifetime of reminiscence.