After mid-July, Lin Zixuan always had the urge to go to Jiaxing.

He thought of walking around the Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing and witnessing history, but in the end he held back, and he was not very brave.

On the evening of July 1921, he drove Feng Chengcheng home.

When passing Wangzhi Road, the car was not fast due to the crowds.

Two people passed by his car, and the street lights were not very real, but he felt that one of them seemed familiar and seemed to have seen them there.

The window of the car was open, and he heard the man talking with a Hunan accent.

Lin Zixuan leaned out of the car window and saw only the two people's backs disappearing into the night.

"What are you looking at?" Feng Chengcheng asked curiously.

"Maybe I've read it wrong." Lin Zixuan shook his head.

What he didn't know was that the meeting was not held in Jiaxing at the beginning, but was in the French Concession in Shanghai, and it was moved to Jiaxing Nanhu to continue for a few days.

He wasn't sure who he saw, and then he forgot about it.

With the start of filming of "Shanghai Holiday", Lin Zixuan became busy and he regretted playing the male lead.

But Du Yu has only made news films before, and this is the first time that feature films.

News films do not need to set up sets, do not need to consider the actor's performance, do not need to deal with complicated trivial matters, just take a camera and shoot there.

Therefore, only family-style small companies like Shanghai Film Company can handle it.

Now that we are going to shoot a feature film, various problems are exposed.

Even though I had been preparing for nearly a month, I still missed it during the official shooting and wasted a lot of money and time.

The main reason is that the employees of Shanghai Film Company are not capable.

They were originally Dan Du Yu's relatives and family members, but they just entered the company because they were fresh and fun or had a good time. They did not have professional skills and rely on everything but Du Yu alone to support them.

After all, I am still inexperienced and not professional enough.

If you just shoot a shoddy feature film, it doesn't matter. Just fool it, but this is "Shanghai Holiday", which is the classic in Lin Zixuan's mind.

He would never want to destroy the movie.

As a result, disputes within the crew inevitably occurred.

But Du Yu also wanted to shoot this movie well, but the reality is that. He does not have a professional team, and he is not professional himself. Everything is being explored, and the shooting progress is extremely slow.

"Shanghai Holiday" is a scene in summer, with a time span of one day.

If it is delayed until autumn and winter, it will be a disaster.

Lin Zixuan felt that he shouldn't have filmed "Shanghai Holiday", but he should have made Du Yu film "The Vow" first, practice his skills, accumulate experience, and then film "Shanghai Holiday".

However, the shooting has begun and can only continue in the chaos.

During this period, Yin Mingzhu performed very well.

She designed the princess's costumes herself, figured out the script, and came up with several small actions for princess to express emotions.

Because it is a silent film, you don’t need to memorize lines, as long as the mouth shape is similar, so the whole film relies on the actors’ physical performance to drive the plot, and expressions and actions are particularly important.

In this regard, Lin Zixuan and Yin Mingzhu have a big gap. This girl seems to be a natural actor.

According to the later film industry, Lin Zixuan was overthrown.

Because "Roman Holiday" is too classic, Lin Zixuan deliberately imitated the performance of the film when acting, but the effect was not good, it looked a bit pretentious and not natural enough.

However, because he is an investor, no one has pointed it out.

Later, Yin Mingzhu boldly said it and cooperated with his repeated practice.

Lin Zixuan realized that this was an oriental movie, and there was no need to imitate the practices of Western actors, just be yourself again. The depth and subtlety of Eastern men is no worse than that of Western men.

Although it is still impossible to compare with the glorious Yin Mingzhu, it can barely pass the test.

Lin Zixuan decided not to act in a movie again.

Of course, it’s not that you don’t invest in movies. This is a huge profit-making industry, but I’m afraid I won’t cooperate with Shanghai Film Company anymore.

But Du Yu is a talent, but such a family-style film company has no future for development. Unless Du Yu makes changes, it will be difficult to become bigger and stronger.

However, according to the current situation, Du Yu still cannot recognize the limitations of a family business in the short term.

Maybe he realized it, but he didn't want to change it.

After all, your family is trustworthy and easy to cooperate, which is very helpful at the beginning of the company.

But once the company develops, it will involve entanglement of interests, and the conflict between family affection and interests will destroy a promising company.

After experiencing this bad movie shooting, Lin Zixuan didn't want to wait, but Du Yu made changes, which would miss the best development period for Chinese film companies.

Perhaps in a few years, Chinese film companies will bloom everywhere and competition will be fierce.

He wants to take the lead before Chinese films develop.

With his vision from later generations, he leads one step at a time.

Lin Zixuan found someone to learn about the current film industry. Based on the information in his mind, he found a person.

This person is called Zhang Shichuan.

Zhang Shichuan is from Ningbo. His father died when he was six years old, so he came to Shanghai to join his uncle Jing Runsan's student and became a small employee at Huayang Real Estate Company run by Jing Runsan.

In 1913, American businessmen Ishre and Saver went to Shanghai to take over the Asia Film Company.

They appreciated Zhang Shichuan very much, so they hired him as a consultant and headed the production business. Zhang Shichuan was only twenty-one years old this year.

Asia Film Company is the earliest foreign-invested production institution in China and has filmed the short film "The Queen Mother of the Cities".

The company has funds and shooting equipment, which gives Zhang Shichuan the opportunity to get in touch with filming.

Therefore, Zhang Shichuan formed Xinmin Company to contract the screenwriter, director, and hire actors of Asia Film Company, and completed the shooting of many short feature films.

Xinmin Company also set a precedent for signing contracts with actors, with very clear regulations on the specific filming requirements of actors, and has the prototype of a professional film company.

In 1914, due to the First World War, the source of German film was cut off and the filming work was terminated.

Asia Film Company closed down and Xinmin Company also disintegrated.

In 1916, Zhang Shichuan and his friends jointly established the Fantasy Fairy Film Company, bringing the civilized drama "Black Soul" to the screen.

However, due to the break of the capital chain, Fantasy Film Company closed down.

In the next few years, Zhang Shichuan left the film industry and did a lot of work, but none of them improved.

On July 1, 1920, the Shanghai Stock Exchange officially opened with a total capital of 5 million yuan, and a profit of 500,000 yuan in less than half a year. Several companies that opened later also made great profits.

For a time, the number of exchanges increased by month.
Chapter completed!