December 31. The last day of 1929.

The weather in Los Angeles is very good. Since the morning, major media have started a publicity war.

In the past, the most popular was the radio station, because people could hear the latest news from the awards store at any time, but now, the most popular media is Lockeke TV. After a few days of trial broadcasting of the national TV signal network, the acceptance of Lockeke TV's program has basically stabilized, and judging from the responses of people from all over the United States, the TV station's programs are very popular.

In the past few days, a group of people at Lockettke TV have been so busy that they are going crazy. Coolidge and Baird stay in the company's office almost 24 hours a day and use remote control to fully command the various work of the TV station.

In less than a week, the scale of Lockettke TV expanded from one state to the entire United States. The pressure can be imagined. After discussion, Coolidge, Baird and others began to launch the previously planned "Rainbow" plan.

The so-called Rainbow Project is a buffer plan prepared by senior executives of Lockettke TV. As early as half a year ago or even earlier, I had expected that the scale of the TV tower would expand to the entire United States, so I instructed Coolidge and others to make relevant preparations in advance.

Coolidge and others also began to plan ahead of schedule once the Lockettke TV station's signal covers the entire United States and adds various staff and facilities to the TV station.

So, in the past few days, Lockettke TV has been recruiting people and adding various facilities. Fortunately, it was very well prepared at the beginning, so that although the work was busy, it was not messy.

However, in addition to Rock TV being very busy, there is another place where people are also busy. This place is Shanlige Di Factory No. 3. To be precise, it is Shanlige's TV Factory.

Since the first TV factory was established, DreamWorks has been planning the construction of sales points across the country. For more than half a year, I have assigned Shanlige a task, which is to ensure that at least one to two TV factories in the United States, and that every big city basically has a TV sales point.

As for my request, Sanlige was a little different at first. In his opinion, it was reasonable to do these things in California because there were TV signals here. However, it was obviously not a wise choice to do such a big move in other places where there was no TV signal.

At that time, I didn't explain to him at all, but just told him to let him do it according to the order.

Shanlige buried his head in the work. He ran around almost every state, talking about the location selection, construction work, and the location selection of TV sales points. Regarding these requirements of Shanlige, the conquests of each state are very cooperative and provide DreamWorks with convenience to the best of their ability. Especially after the economic crisis, the conquests of each state have seen the establishment of these projects, which will play a great role in solving the increasingly unemployment problem and stabilizing social order. Therefore, they have provided various conveniences for our work.

These TV factories and sales points were soon built. In the past few days, as the signal from Lockettke TV became popular nationwide, a TV procurement frenzy broke out in the United States.

In order to see the legendary TV, the Americans went completely crazy. Outside the TV sales points in various cities, the queues were very long, and many people did not do anything for several consecutive days.

Faced with such a large-scale demand, major TV factories work overtime day and night. Those TVs often come from assembly lines. After being labeled, they don’t even enter the warehouse and just put them away on the outside.

All major TV factories have a slogan, that is, "Let the TV be in the factory in the morning, in the car at noon, and in the people's homes at night."

The TV factory is running around and overloaded production, and the transportation company has even withdrawn a large number of transportation tools. Even so, it still cannot meet the needs of the people.

At major sales points, there is often a situation where people stand outside the sales points, waiting for the arrival of vehicles carrying TVs. When they arrive, they can't even enter the warehouse of the sales point, and they are surrounded by people when they are connected. People at the sales points can only sell TVs in their cars.

Major American media reported on this rush to buy. The New York Times said: "After the economic crisis in 1929, everything in the United States became unsold products, with only one or only one, that is TV. This time, DreamWorks has caused the entire United States to fall into unprecedented madness!" DreamWorks was so busy that the people were dizzy about buying, but this phenomenon is something that everyone is willing to see.

For DreamWorks, it is a bit busy, but the benefits are also huge.

TV factories everywhere are busy, and the profits generated are also huge. Many media say that the assembly lines of the TV factories in DreamWorks are not producing TVs, but printing money.

Coolidge and Baird told me after rough calculations that DreamWorks can make at least 20 to 30 billion in this sales craze.

Such a large amount of money is obviously easy to get for DreamWorks.

DreamWorks' income is considered to make other film companies jealous, but even the jealousy is jealous. Those guys can only helplessly. After all, the patent rights of TV are now firmly in the hands of DreamWorks, and they have no right to produce TV.

The biggest reason why people have been buying TV frantically in the past few days, and even at all costs, must get TV before December 31st is probably because of the Harvey Awards ceremony.

Lockettke TV has long announced that it will broadcast the grand occasion of the fourth Harvey Awards ceremony in full live. This news is too tempting for those who have never had the chance to watch the awards ceremony in person in Los Angeles and can only see a few pictures in the newspaper.

Rocketke TV even saw this live broadcast event as the biggest opportunity. As long as this mission is successfully completed, Rocketke TV will completely open up the situation in the entire United States and will inevitably achieve unexpected and huge success.

Therefore, the TV station specially set up a live broadcast command center, which was personally responsible by Coolidge and others. This work must be done well.

So, under such crazy circumstances, the highly anticipated Harvey Awards ceremony has arrived completely.

On the 31st, the Harvey Awards Jury began their last work in 1929: convening the last collective meeting.

The meeting was held in the Hollywood City Government, and all members of the judging committee attended. No one knew the specific content of the meeting, but after the meeting, the relevant person in charge said that this award ceremony would definitely be a wonderful time.

Hayes and Grant even told reporters that this time the Harvey Awards ceremony will definitely set a new record that has never been before. Their words undoubtedly made the previous debates about the awards ceremony even more intense.

Major radio stations and Lockett TV have invited well-known Hollywood filmmakers to form an interview group to let them explain their opinions and ideas about this Harvey Awards. And who will eventually win each award. Naturally, it has become the most concerned issue.

Experts from different places have different opinions, but one fact that is indisputable is that DreamWorks can definitely continue to stand out in the glory of the heroes this time.

From four o'clock in the afternoon, the red carpet was laid at the entrance of the Lincoln Hotel. The reporters' long guns and short cannons and the people were looking forward to it, making the atmosphere on the scene tense and warm.

The award ceremony started at 8 o'clock, and the locals from DreamWorks arrived at 7:30.

As we got out of the car and walked through the red carpet one after another, there were shouts outside the Lincoln Hotel.

The reporters flocked to it. Their question was not whether DreamWorks could win awards or how many awards could win, but that DreamWorks planned to keep a few trophys for other telephone companies.

There is also a reporter's question, asking this time, so many people in DreamWorks were nominated, and some people, such as Griffith, even had an impact on some awards that seemed exclusive to me. What do I think about this?

My answer is: This represents the prosperity of Hollywood films and the emergence of Hollywood talents. If this is the case, I would be even happier.

In the Lincoln Hotel, the second and third floors were already crowded, and even the guest seats for the award ceremony on the first floor were basically full.

It seems that more people arrived earlier than us.

But this time, the seat arrangement on site changed tremendously. In the past, the award ceremony was arranging people from a company together, which formed a square array of film companies. But this time, the arrangement of the square array was cancelled, and instead the seats arranged with award nominations.

That is, those who are nominated for the same award will sit together.

Such a change is obviously a decision made by the review committee after careful consideration.

The previous way of sitting in the company's square formation has certain advantages, that is, the distinction between each company is clear at a glance, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, each company is in its own array. The atmosphere in the cinema is not particularly lively or harmonious.

The current arrangement can obviously completely break the boundaries between major Hollywood film companies and integrate Hollywood films into one.

I am very welcome to this change. The main reason for the welcome is, in addition to the advantages mentioned above, more importantly, this brings a lot of convenience to the live broadcast work of Lockettke TV. When a prize is about to be announced, it only takes a shot to see the different expressions of the nominated people.

In addition to arranging seats by nominations, the jury committee obviously also took into account the high-level locations of major film companies.

In the first and second rows of the podium, the seats arranged are senior executives of major Hollywood film companies, and senior executives of several Hollywood film companies are sitting here. DreamWorks has been arranged to the most prominent position.

"Andre, you guy is too late. I just heard a lot of shouting outside. I knew it was you. In Hollywood, you are the only one who can make the people shout so loudly." When I walked to the front, Marskolov stood up and grabbed me.

"You guy, there is nothing else to do except squeeze me in your mouth every day." I glanced at Marskolov and sat down in my seat. All the bosses of major film companies were present around me. There were many.

"Andre, didn't Lenny come?" Marskolov looked back and whispered to me.

"No. She has such a big belly, so I can't come. Natalia, Holgina and his group are accompanying him at home. Today I am alone." I shook my head.

The doctor said Lenny was born in one or two months, and now I dare not let her run around.

"It's good. It's good. Andre, I heard from the doctor that Lenny was born in more than a month. I want to discuss something for you." Marskolov suddenly looked tight. It was very strange.

"If you have something, just say it, don't make it so mysterious, it's scary." I smiled.

"Look, you have two sons now, Agelo and Vapori. Both are surnamed Corleon..."

"Nonsense! My son, who doesn't have the surname Corleon, does he have another name??" Before Marskolov finished speaking, he was interrupted by me.

This old man is simply nonsense.

But when I finished saying this, I saw that Marskolov stopped talking, and he stared at me with a cunning look on his face.

His smile made me realize the trick in this old boy's heart.

"Old Ma, you guy won't want to make an idea on my son's name, right?" I sat upright alertly.

Then I heard a harsh and complacent voice from Marskolov.

"Andre, you are really the smartest person in Hollywood." Marskolov gave me a thumbs up.

"Andre, look, you have two sons, both of whom are following your last name. Now Lenny is pregnant and is about to give birth. You also know that Lenny is my only daughter. Our Marskolov family should have successors. So, I want to discuss with you to see if the child Lenny gave birth to is following my last name, Marskolov." Marskolov looked at me and squeezed his eyes at me.

I was not happy at that time.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Lao Ma, just let me do this. It's easy to say that I'll do other things. Even if you ask for more children to come to you, I have no objection. It's impossible to change my surname." I waved my hand and shook my head.

Marskolov smiled and said, "Andre, for you, there are more sons in the future. In the future, your women can give you a lot of children. I just let Lenny's child take my surname. What's wrong with this? Besides, even if you change your surname, the child will still call you your father. Also, I'm old now. Really, at this age, maybe God will call me over for tea that day, and I'll be the only child in Lenny. After I leave, there must be an heir for such a large family business as MGM Film Company. If this child's surname is Marskolov, he can naturally inherit MGM Film Company with legitimate reasons. In this way, not only can it reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles, but your family will also take a huge advantage. Even if I die, I close my eyes."

When Marskolov said these words, he coaxed his nose and pretended to be pitiful.

This guy has long known whether I am soft or hard, so he gives me warm tactics.

"Old Ma, you are wrong. My son of Andre Corleon, who can live a glorious life without inheriting your inheritance. Do you believe it?"

"I believe it, I believe it!" Marskolov nodded.

"Also, I don't think you are a guy who understands the matter of inheritance. You have only one daughter, Lenny, and when you die, Lenny has the right to inherit. And this child in the future will naturally have the right to inherit the Marskolov family. In other words, no matter what his surname is, he can get MGM Film Company. Why do you think I have to make him change his name?"

"This..." Marskolov was stunned by my words.

Looking at Marskolov's appearance, I immediately laughed and hugged him on the shoulder. I whispered and said, "Old Ma. It is impossible to let the child take your surname completely. I am a very possessive person, so I will not let my son follow someone else's surname. But in order to take care of your Marskolov family and better take over your inheritance, I think we two can give a compromise."

"Thank you? How to win?" After hearing what I said, Marskolov immediately became energetic.

I smiled and said, "I think we might as well determine the child's name first and then add two surnames to the child. Will it be fine soon?"

My opinion made Marskolov's eyes lit up.

For many Europeans, it is common to have different surnames in their names, and there was a phenomenon that was very popular, that is, the longer a person's name is. The more surnames there are in the name, the more status the person has.

I couldn't agree to the request to change my surname. But I could accept it if I added a surname to the child's name.

"This method is feasible. I think it is feasible." Marskolov agreed, and looked very happy.

"Then let's determine the child's name first." I signaled to Marskolov to express his opinion first, after all, he is the child's grandfather.

"If it's a girl, it's called Shanni. What a nice name. If it's a boy, you have to give it a name. The names of your boys in the Corleone family are very particular." Marskolov pushed them back.

Not to mention, naming a child is not my specialty.

"If it were a boy, I would call him Adolf." After thinking for a while, I said a name.

"Adolf!?" Marskolov jumped up when he heard the name.
To be continued...