Ronald came to the studio of the film studio. Xiao Yan's father was the lighting engineer of the crew "The Female Director's Boyfriend". He stood next to a large trailer, with several wires pulled out from the trailer, connected to the scene.

light.

"The Female Director's Boyfriend" is the sequel to another blockbuster movie "Postal Fate" two years ago. The male protagonist is the actor who played "Romance in Lushan Mountain", Guo Kaimin. He is speaking lines to the camera.

Ronald noticed that the crew here did not have a microphone for live recording. He was wondering when he heard a man wearing a director's hat tilted to stop the rehearsal.

That was a senior director of the film studio, his surname was Sang. After he went up and talked about the scene with the actors, he gestured for the camera to start filming. The shooting habits here are very different. Perhaps to save film, the actors have to rehearse many times.

Just got on the camera and took the actual shot.

"Buzz..." The scene was still filled with a moderate noise. It was also the first time for Ronald to see a crew filming like this.

"Do you, Hollywood, also make sequels to successful movies?" Ever since Assistant Director Huang found out that Ronald could speak a little Chinese, he had been pestering him to ask questions, and he was very interested in Hollywood's advanced concepts and technologies.

There was no radio at the scene and there was still noise, so Ronald was not afraid of disturbing the filming and explained to Assistant Director Huang from a distance.

"There are many situations like this in Hollywood. It is very natural to make a sequel after a blockbuster movie. The audience is familiar with the plot and characters, which can greatly reduce marketing costs. The main creator no longer has to worry about exploring the plot and whether it will be liked by the audience."

"Stop!" Director Sang stopped another rehearsal, "Very good, this is it, we will officially shoot later."

"Dad!" Xiao Yan ran over, said hello to his father, then pointed at Ronald and told Director Sang why Ronald was here.

"Ah, it turns out it's a foreign friend. Let Lao Yan go. His apprentice has already started training. It's fine as long as he is here."

"Hello, Mr. Yan," Ronald greeted Xiao Yan's father very politely.

His name is Yan Zhongfang. He is a lighting engineer and engineer in a film studio. He has invented many practical new lighting equipment.

"Buzz... click"

The noise stopped after Yan Zhongfang turned off a switch on the car.

"Hello." Yan Zhongfang wiped his hands with a towel and came up to shake hands with Ronald. He didn't know why the foreigner wanted to see him.

"I would like to ask, what is this? Why do you put a noise source here? Isn't it very inconvenient for live recording?" Ronald was very interested in different shooting methods.

"This is a DC power supply vehicle for lighting. Unlike Hollywood, which has advanced technical level dysprosium lamps, the dysprosium-holmium lamps we design and manufacture ourselves are used with DC. It happens that our crew does not need to receive live sound, so DC

Converter noise is not a big deal.”

"What do you want from me?" Yan Zhongfang asked Ronald.

"I'm here to buy advanced lamps from you. I hope you can sell or rent them. The price is negotiable." Ronald said he wanted to buy the lamps invented by Yan Zhongfang.

"Aren't you a guest from Hollywood? Why do you want to buy our lamps? Your lamps are more advanced than ours?"

Yan Zhongfang had a look of surprise on his face. He didn't understand that his invention was reverse-engineered and manufactured based on advertisements in overseas magazines and brief performance descriptions. How could a Hollywood director want this?

Buy from yourself?

"No, yours is more advanced than ours." Ronald said affirmatively.

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"Oh, what you are interested in is the lightning lamp." Yan Zhongfang listened to his son's explanation for a while, and then took Ronald to the warehouse of the film studio.

Pulling open the carefully covered cloth, one of Yan Zhongfang's inventions, a boxy lighting equipment, lay quietly on the ground.

"That's it. We don't have too many movies to shoot lightning shots. There aren't many uses for it, so it's just sitting in the warehouse."

Yan Zhongfang turned on another DC power supply, connected it to the light power supply, set the switch on the back of the lamp, and then gently flipped the switch, and a burst of bright light emitted from the scene.

"Wow, this is it!" Ronald was excited.

The light stimulated by 50,000 volts of high voltage was like lightning, making the warehouse shine very brightly. The light emitted from the square lamp did not care about the brightness of the original incandescent lamp in the warehouse, and illuminated the entire floor.

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The lightning flashed three times, each lasting for more than a second, and then calmed down.

"How is this done? No one in Hollywood can create lightning effects as realistic as yours. Mr. Yan Zhongfang, you are going to make a fortune." Ronald also wanted to step forward and do it himself.

"The lightning lamp needs to rest for a period of time and wait for the heat of the explosion to dissipate before it can be started again." Yan Zhongfang felt the temperature near the lamp with his hand, and then asked Ronald to set the time himself, and another lightning strike occurred.

"This lightning can also set the time accurately!" Ronald liked it more and more.

"The scientific name of this is called high-power high-voltage DC long-arc xenon lightning lamp." Yan Zhongfang proudly introduced his invention.

"The color rendering of xenon lamps is very good, the brightness is sufficient, and the flash time can be precisely controlled to simulate the brightness of lightning at any night. However, the lamps used are long-arc xenon lamps, which we use to illuminate large stadiums.

And they are in public places, so the cost is relatively expensive. We can’t use them indiscriminately. There are some film studios across the country now, and those who want to shoot lightning scenes come to borrow them.”

Ronald had a very lively chat with inventor Yan Zhongfang.

Yan Zhongfang not only invented the lightning lamp, but also imitated and manufactured the same lamp for studio lighting as Alai in Germany.

Movies have evolved into the color era, and the carbon arc lamps used in the black-and-white era can no longer be used. Later, someone invented the dysprosium lamp and added the rare element dysprosium to the lamps, so that various colors can be reproduced more accurately on color film.

However, the film studio could not find a matching high-power AC power supply, so it had to bypass the AC-DC converter and make a lamp that uses DC power. It added two unique rare elements, dysprosium and holmium, to overcome the stroboscopic effect.

question.

The price of the DC power supply is that there is low noise on set. Fortunately, film studios now use post-dubbing for filming, so this shortcoming has not been amplified.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​increasing the voltage to increase the brightness of the lightning lamp? The high-voltage performance of the long-arc xenon lamp is so good." Ronald touched the lamp and looked at it like a treasure.

"I also once connected the wrong power supply to 380-volt industrial electricity on the set. I found that the light bulb was much brighter than the 220-volt one before it blew up, so I came up with the idea of ​​inventing a lightning lighting lamp.

In the end, I found the performance advantages of the long-arc xenon lamp in the journals of the Soviet Union and invented the lightning lamp. However, our factory director said that I was not doing my job properly and was not very supportive of my continued experiments."

"Why? With your talent, you should be engaged in specialized product research and development work, instead of condescending to be a lighting engineer on the set." Ronald started to think about poaching people.

"My inventions and creations all use equipment from the factory. The long-arc xenon lamp was also reported to the superiors by the factory. Without the support of the factory director, I would not have invented the lightning lamp. Let me go, I will not

I'm willing to give it up." Yan Zhongfang's family is here, so it's a bit reluctant for him to go to America.

"Then I will buy two sets of lightning light equipment, and you can set a price."

"I can't set a price. This is the property of the factory."

"I'll buy you a complete set of patents and production processes. I'll pay in US dollars and you set a price." Ronald keenly felt that the effect of this lightning lamp was extraordinary. As long as it was introduced to Hollywood, all movies related to lightning would be

If you want to rent your own lamps, it will be a separate business at that time.

"This belongs to the unit. Private individuals have no right to sell it, but I can report it to the factory director."

"Do you want to buy our lightning lamp?" Director Xu of the film studio was surprised when he saw Ronald bringing Xiao Yan and his son to express their willingness to buy.

"Yes, it's a very good light fixture. We don't have such good equipment in Hollywood."

"But our film studio doesn't produce this kind of lamps? These two lightning lamps are prototype lamps made by Master Yan Zhongfang when he was inventing."

"Huh?", Ronald thought, why don't you understand the value of this lamp?

"But they don't seem to understand that with such a small amount of films being made every year, not many have lightning shots. It's not like all the shoddy romance films, horror films, and even Broadway stage plays in Hollywood, which all have lightning effects." Luo

Nader understood that here, Yan Zhongfang's invention was just a toy, and it could only be turned into a business in America, which has a huge film and television market.

"How about I write you a letter of introduction, and you go to the state-owned electronic lighting factory in Minhang to purchase. Master Yan Zhongfang's drawings can be given to you, as long as..."

"I can bid to buy your patent."

Director Xu has also traveled to Japan and the South and knows the meaning of capitalist patents, but that is not what they need.

"Our country's scientific and technological strength is still relatively backward. Only at certain points can we break through the world's advanced scientific and technological level..."

Ronald didn't know how to answer this.

Xiao Yan translated what Director Xu said, and then said to Ronald, "We rely on ratings for everything here. My dad has invented so many new equipment, but he has not yet been rated as a senior engineer. As long as you can give us a certificate,

This invention has reached the international advanced level in the 1970s, and both my father and Factory Director Xu have done a great job."

"Oh, don't be modest. You are not at the international advanced level in the 1970s, but you have achieved international breakthroughs. Now your lightning special effects level is the best in the world, and the entire Hollywood is not as good as you."

"Is what this foreigner said true? Is it really that good?" Director Xu was a little worried and quietly asked the translator Xiao Yan.

"I can ask the American Film Association and the American Film Institute of Technology and Arts to provide you with evaluation reports. I will also purchase a large number of light bulbs for your lightning lights. As long as you can sign an exclusive supply agreement with me.

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Ronald stated his conditions.

"The American Academy of Film Technology and the Arts is the organizer of the Oscars." Assistant Director Huang also knew some English and immediately reported to Director Xu.

This film studio's scientific and technological breakthrough was discovered by Ronald, and it went from a lamp that no one cared about in the warehouse to the most important scientific and technological breakthrough on the literary and artistic front.

People from the Municipal Science and Technology Commission also came and talked with Ronald for a long time. Finally, the mayor personally approved the exclusive sale of movie lightning tubes and the control equipment invented by Yan Zhongfang to Ronald's "Daydream Production Company"

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After signing the agreement, Ronald also followed Chinese rules and hosted a banquet for the leaders of the film studio and famous actors and directors.

Yan Zhongfang has already explained to Ronald, "This kind of long-arc xenon lamp is only manufactured in the Eastern camp. In the West, you have already switched to metal halide lamps with lower cost and better luminous efficiency as lighting equipment for large stadiums.

Already.

However, the color rendering effect of metal halide lamps is not good, and the film appears yellowish, so it cannot be used for film shooting."

This kind of lamp is only produced by a state-owned electronic lamp factory in Minhang. The products produced by this factory are also supplied to the whole country.

First, we purchased a large number of light tubes and paid the bill in US dollars. Then we purchased the control equipment and manufacturing drawings of the lightning lights from the film studio. We also obtained the exclusive purchase rights from America and the right to apply for patents in America.

Ronald was very happy, knowing that he had picked up a good thing this time. Not only could it be used as a monopoly business, but he could also use it to enter many Hollywood film crews.
To be continued...