When I was a child, most of the movies were watched at the People's Cinema not far from home. The People's Cinema is located in the north of the west section of the Old City Cinema Street (today's Kowloon Bay Street Friendship Community North District South Gate East Side Of the Unicom Business Hall Compound - according to Cao Jiancheng's "Old Streets and Alleys of Naturalization City"), is a small two-storey building. Doors and seats are painted yellow. There is also a glass bin on the ground floor that sells some small snacks. In the summer, our parents usually buy us popsicles. There is also a plastic man with jelly beans, which my mother also bought for us. One Jia Baoyu, one Lin Daiyu. The jelly beans inside were delicious. At that time, people's amateur cultural life was still very limited, and 80 years ago, my family did not have a TELEVISION, so it was mainly to watch movies.
When I was a child, the movie I watched the most was the American movie "Bat". In the cold night, a huge black claw protruded from outside the door, which could scare people to death. It was evening when I watched it, with my parents. On the way home, walk under the dim street lamp, and from time to time I have to look left and right and look back. Walking to the corner of the alley is also trembling, go back to bed before taking off the sweater do not dare, because the sweater cover on the head has a moment of darkness ...
After watching "Walter Defending Sarajevo", the children in the whole hospital learned Walter's "punching the heart", and fighting can come in handy. At that time, most of the foreign films I watched were translated by the Shanghai Film Translation Factory. I can remember "The Wanderer", "Nuri", "Eternal Love", "Caravan", "Witness", "Pursuit", "Sandware", "Yesenia", "Cold Heart" and so on.
I remember that on the eve of the movie theater, a short documentary or animation film had to be put on the eve of the movie, as a "plus film". The performances I have seen include "Divine Pen Ma Liang", "Three Monks", "Little Tadpole Finds Mother" and so on. These films are generally about half an hour.
There are also cases of power outages while watching movies in the cinema. Usually it takes less than five minutes to call. At that time, there were no strict requirements for the audience, eating melon seeds, smoking, drinking soda... Both. Throwing melon seed peels from upstairs and flying to the face has also been encountered. So it's very free. The child urinated urgently, squatted down on the ground and untied his hands, and no one cared. Even sitting shoulder to shoulder with rows of wooden backrest chairs, it also feels a bit crowded. The money in the pocket of his father's Zhongshan jacket was once touched by a "skin-clamping man". When I got home, I found that I had regretted it for many days.
Late-arriving spectators were led into the pitch-black theater by the conductor, holding a large metal flashlight, taking care of the numbers written on the back of the wooden chair and helping him find his seat.
The Great South Lane in Kowloon Bay, where my family lives, is not far from the People's Cinema, and it is also separated by several alleys. Every day the cinema uses a tweeter to broadcast the movie to be played over and over again: comrades in the audience! Comrades in the audience! At eight o'clock in the evening, the People's Cinema screened the Yugoslav color feature films "Revenge" and "Revenge", with a ticket price of 50 cents. Welcome to watch... Since the announcer speaks "this dialect", this "Revenge" is heard as "pig's head"!
Every June Day, the city's cinemas are all free for children and teenagers, and the real thing is which one you want to enter, how long you want to watch, how long you want to see, unimpeded. So Children's Day at that time was a real happy day! It is a "happy holiday" full of children's laughter!
