Do you remember the video room? Tell me, how do you feel?

I remember when I was a child, my uncle had a friend who opened a laser imaging studio. At that time, I didn't know what a laser movie was, and I thought it was very mysterious.

Once my uncle's friend invited us to watch a video in his video hall. I remember it was a third-rate foreign film. I didn't know anything about the specific content at that time, except that the picture was illuminated from a machine hanging on the ceiling and projected onto the front wall, without even a screen.

The video hall is not big either, it was transformed from a room at home. My uncle used to run a video hall in his home, which was a TV set and a video recorder. There is a small blackboard hanging at the door, which says what movie is on today. I came to see some college students and construction workers around me.

There was no developed Internet in the 1980s and 1990s, so people at that time were very happy to watch a wonderful video. At that time, there were many video rental shops. Later, video was eliminated, and vcd and dvd rental ushered in a wave of bonus period. Later, the internet entered thousands of households, and DVD almost declined. Now is the world of short videos.

So, what will short videos be replaced by?

In fact, people's happiness is essentially the same, but the people and things that cause happiness are different.

Nowadays, people giggle at small videos of mobile phones when they have nothing to do, and their brains will be really stupid.

Imagine the future, the ultimate pursuit of mankind will never end, and the desire of human exploration will create one new game rule after another until human extinction …

In the video hall I remember, I have to go at night 1 1 later. Just 1.5 yuan can also get a piece of toilet paper. It should be that the video is very touching. Wipe your tears with toilet paper.

I was only "semi-experienced" in the era of video halls. Why do you say this is because I was born in that era, but I have never really entered the video hall. After all, I was a kindergarten child at that time.

I first learned about video recorders in kindergarten. The time is about 1993 to 1994. A friend of my father came home suddenly with a box. After opening it, there is a strange black device and some tapes that can be put into the device. At that time, after listening to what my parents said, I first knew that this thing was called a video recorder, and I also knew that this thing could be connected to a TV. Through the video tape in the device, I can see movies that will not be played on TV.

I believe that many people who have experienced that era know that there have been video recorders among the people in that period, but most ordinary people can't afford them, so they often borrow them to watch videos. I remember my father's friend brought several videos at that time, one of which was Lady Enforcers, a gangster film from Hong Kong and Taiwan, which was familiar to many viewers. I can't remember the names of several videos. I remember a movie in Europe and America, where the villain's hand was cut off at the end. The bloody scene scared me at that time.

About that time, when I was walking in the street with my parents at night, I noticed a strange storefront in my hometown. There is a TV set in the store that has been on all the time, and a dozen people are watching it around. I was quite strange at that time. Most families have their own televisions. Why do those people go outside to see them? Later, I learned that this is the video hall in my hometown. It is not a traditional TV program, but some movies from overseas Hong Kong and Taiwan. Because the local video hall in my hometown is small in scale and there are not many sources, I will listen to my father when I grow up. At that time, many relatives and friends (mainly young people) used to go to the city to find a video hall to watch blockbusters because there were better sources.

In addition, many people who have experienced that era should also know that during that period, many state-owned enterprises had their own independent TV stations and spent several hours broadcasting their own programs every day. However, such a small TV station can't receive advertisements, and the annual corporate news broadcast time is not long. Most of the rest of the time, they usually put on some film and television dramas to fill the time gap. For example, the TV station in my hometown broadcasts a short piece of corporate news at 7: 30 every night, and then broadcasts one or two movies or series. In particular, many of the TV dramas broadcast at that time were either foreign translated films introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, or old videos shot by local TV stations and generally distributed only in the form of video tapes. Now these TV series have become out-of-print works, which can't be found on the internet at all, and large TV stations will not broadcast them again.

However, even young people who have not experienced that era believe that they will have a certain understanding of the video hall. After all, one of Peisi Chen's early Spring Festival Evening skits was broadcast on TV and the Internet, that is, he and Zhu Shimao starred in 1992 Spring Festival Evening skits, police and brother-in-law. The background of the sketch is that Chen Xiaoer bought a video recorder, rented a cabin and opened a humble video hall, but it was not a serious video, but various indecent movies. His brother-in-law caught him red-handed.

Because at that time, TV had not fully spread to every family, and even if it did, everyone could only watch the programs on TV. In that era when there was no Internet, people were very curious about programs other than TV, so from the 1980s to the early 1990s, various video halls sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Shopkeepers only needed to find one or several rooms and get some video recorders and videos to open a video hall.

Of course, this kind of video hall has not disappeared until now, but it has been upgraded to a high-end, that is, a private cinema, that is, a movie cafe. The store has purchased a large number of projection equipment and opened online members, so that customers can watch paid movies online. Of course, the extra services are also more high-end, and each cinema has been transformed into a single room, instead of the traditional dozens of people crowded together, with drinks and snacks.

In addition, here, I want to mention the details of a series in the 1980s. Fans who like to watch the theme of the war in southern Xinjiang should still remember that in the 1980s, there was a classic drama called Panthers Commando, which told about the activities of a special force in southern Xinjiang. There is such a plot at the beginning of the first episode of the series. Several boy scouts are going to play in the town during the holiday. A scout mentioned that there is a new video hall in town, and there is a new movie called Will. But the author searched online for a long time afterwards and didn't find such a movie in the 1980s. It is not excluded that this video is not a movie, but an overseas documentary, so it can't be found online.

To be exact, video halls rose in the mid-1980s and flourished in the 1990s. After 2000, it gradually began to decline until it died out 20 10 years ago.

1990 At the beginning of the year, I just entered junior high school when I was a little boy. At that time, the entertainment and spiritual and cultural life were not as rich as now. This is especially true in small cities. In addition to students like us, there are many "bad" young people in society, and some migrant workers have nothing to do at night. These three kinds of people have basically become the mainstream customers of the video hall, and this has become their paradise.

Video halls are often opened in obscure places in busy streets (some black shops also choose remote places). At the beginning, doors and windows were often closed, and the struggle of video transmission in the house could be faintly heard; On the blackboard or poster at the door, there is a list of today's movies. Later, the video hall became more conspicuous, the facade would be enlarged, and two speakers would be placed at the door, still transmitting the sound of the video being played at that time, but the volume was so loud that it could be heard at a distance of tens of meters.

At the beginning, the viewing conditions in the video hall were quite simple, basically long wooden chairs, or rows of armchairs made of plywood, playback equipment, home video recorder and a big TV. With the development of the times, it has quietly changed, and the video hall has gradually kept pace with the times, becoming a sofa chair and even a couple's box; Video recorders have become VCDs, DVD players, and televisions have become projectors. However, no matter how the conditions inside and outside the video hall change, the atmosphere is always the same: in this small public space, some people make a loud noise, some people smoke and eat melon seeds, and when they are dissatisfied with the films they broadcast, they collectively whistle and boo, asking the boss to change the films immediately. ....

The ticket price of the video hall is very cheap, generally 2, 3 yuan. If you want to see something "special", you have to add it to 5 yuan. Generally speaking, the boss will show some "serious" films during the day, such as Hong Kong's martial arts films, ghost films, European and American action films and so on. But after eight or nine o'clock in the evening, he will show some Hong Kong "third-class films" and even European and American erotic films according to everyone's "strong wishes". Of course, there are risks. The boss usually puts down the curtains or something and won't open the door unless someone is very familiar with it. .....

At this time, people in the video hall will always start to get excited, rubbing their feet and picking their noses, waking up after dozing off, some ready to leave, and some sitting back in the dark with a little excitement. Even people you don't know next to you may generously hand over a cigarette. ......

In the video hall, through those films, we saw a world that seemed strange but was closer to the truth of society and human nature.

Under the example of those movies, we seem to understand a lot of things and all kinds of hypocrisy in the world, but we feel uncertain about ourselves and don't know where to go. We not only understand the instinct of the body, but also are full of surprises after discovering the potential power of thought and mind at first, and then hesitate constantly in self-doubt and reflection. ....

The video hall is like a black hole full of temptation, which makes waves of teenagers and young people get what they want, indulge in it and even indulge in it. On the one hand, it provides cheap spiritual food for a whole generation, and gives us a place to catch our breath and comfort ourselves in the dark. On the other hand, sediment rise is inevitable. It is like an open platform, which is washed away by the torrent of the times and society, bringing us more confusion, inner anxiety and psychological conflicts.

Every time I sneak out of a boring school, I spend a few dollars and walk into a glittering video hall in the dark, showing several movies for hours on end. It's like walking into a long-awaited grand carnival. Here, we get rid of being forced to suppress our own personality, and get rid of our daily life where the identity and boundaries are forcibly set by the outside world. When we walked out of the video hall rubbing our eyes and touching our stomachs, we were like an unsatisfied glutton, so empty and confused, full of frustration and powerlessness.

Now, the video hall, like our youth, has disappeared into the sea of people. It was quietly and helplessly forgotten, left in the desert of the past and gradually eroded and buried by the sandstorm of time.

As a post-80s generation, are you old and young now?

The fatigue of "middle age" has overwhelmed you, right?

Halloween is coming, taking you back to your childhood.

Let's take you through the screams in the video room again!

Experience the video hall on the big screen.

Finally, the Hong Kong horror films in our China films can also be called iconic horror films. Hong Kong horror movies are easy to make a series of movies, which has made a classic Hong Kong horror IP. And they are all VCDs that we wanted to rent in those years but were afraid to rent in the video room. As we all know, there are:

Yin-Yang Road series shot 20 episodes at a time.

Mountain village ancient corpse series

(Poster slogans of that era were also very direct. ) The video hall is different.

There are also some childhood enlightenment "beauties" of old Hong Kong films.

Memoirs of a video studio owner: The most popular movie is the bloody duo. In the past, we asked people to buy back videos from Hong Kong, but we were reluctant to play the original. Up to now, tens of thousands of tapes in our hands have become rubbish, so we can only collect them ourselves. After all, it is a lifetime of hard work.

Because the legal system of Hong Kong films is different from that of mainland films, Hong Kong films have a strict grading system, so it is allowed to make horror films suitable for adults. In addition, China has a vast territory and rich resources, and feudal superstitions are deeply intertwined with various religious ideologies, so cultural creation is also very good. Compared with mainland thrillers, audiences always prefer Hong Kong thrillers. However, under the influence of capital, in recent years, there are fewer and fewer new Hong Kong-style horror films on the market, and there are more and more rotten films in the mainland. Just when I was already hungry, I received a good news some time ago: Yinyang Road series has returned this year and can be shown in the mainland, which is the most powerful gathering of domestic horror movies!

Qiu Litao, a talented director of Hong Kong films, has not only directed the films Barbecued Pork Bag and Ebola Virus before, but also two works can be regarded as social horror film teaching materials. His first six films, Yin Yang Road, laid the foundation for the Hong Kong-style horror IP series Yin Yang Road and became a classic.

Time flies, the Hong Kong classic horror film "Yin Yang Road" series has gone through 20 years. Now, the pure Hong Kong-style horror film "Always by Your Side" created by the original crew of this series has struck again, injecting nostalgic and fresh blood into this year's Halloween schedule.

As far as I can remember, there is a video hall in the left corner of the back door of Daguan Garden. It'll be fifty cents then! My brother and I watched Ashes of Time and Huashan Mountain on the Sword there. In the video room, there are twenty or thirty long benches. All the people watching the video are men, but they are too old to see it. There are several spots on the wall outside the video hall, as well as soda cigarettes and snacks.

There is also a video hall on the second floor on the right side of Guanyin Street Bridge. Most of the videos I saw there were martial arts films from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and there were many costume dramas, some of which I really can't remember. Bruce Lee, Yuan Biao, Jackie Chan, Hu Huizhong, Ceng Zhiwei and Tony Leung Chiu Wai are all familiar with these videos.

After work, I bought a Panasonic video recorder at home, or bought it from Sanlian Electric. I spent 1750 and watched a few videos, which seemed to be very impressive. Then, with the popularity of mobile phones and computers, video recorders were shelved. It was preserved. Quite new!

Feelings can be described as very deep!

1, whenever you want to watch a video, you should read all the posters outside the video hall carefully, and it depends on who played it, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Brigitte Lin ... There are too many to talk about! That's when we met!

2, the price is not limited to 50 cents per time on the same day, this price lasts the longest, vcd and dvd are one yuan, but it disappears in a year or two!

3. People who go in basically need a whole day. Most people eat steamed buns and stir-fried soda at noon, and vendors will come in to sell them near noon or at night.

4, the whole video hall is filled with smoke all day, there are no girls, occasionally a woman is brought in by SEO, and there is a man!

5. The movies rented by the owner of the video hall usually last until dark, and the movies in the morning are repeated at night!

6, every time after work or at night, some xx films will be inserted (everyone's favorite, some people just wait for those films to go in, which is also the boss's marketing means)

7. Children in rural areas can't go back to the city that night and have no money to stay in hotels. Generally choose the video room, you can watch videos and sleep! There are too many people and there is no place to sit. When the boss comes back, he wakes up. When there are too few people, he goes back to sleep. This phenomenon was later transferred to Internet cafes!

This must be remembered. If you have nothing to do during the holiday, prepare to let your parents watch videos secretly. It was the happiest time!

I went to the video hall when I was in college in the late 1980s. I remember that a ticket is 80 cents, which is already a lot. At that time, the food cost was only thirty or forty yuan a month.

At present, the environment of the video hall is rather chaotic. The big one can accommodate one hundred people, and the small one can accommodate twenty or thirty people. There are good and bad seats, some sofas covered with soft cloth, some wooden stools, full of sweat and smoke. Projectors are used for broadcasting. At that time, the projectors were all very big, which was different from what they are now. The film carrier was the video tape at that time, so it was named the video hall.

The films released at that time were mainly Hong Kong films, mainly martial arts films and gangster films. It was from the video hall that we got to know and understand those Hong Kong stars, such as Jackie Chan, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat, A Dai, Zhou Xingxing, Joey Wong and Rosamund Kwan. Video halls have never seen so-called "blockbusters", and sometimes so-called "third-class movies" are shown in the middle of the night. First, we need to add another venue to buy tickets, but at that time, we also need to go back to the school dormitory.

The rise of video halls was mainly because there were too few entertainment activities at that time, and video halls were available at any time. No matter how many games were played, the consumption was relatively low, so they were very popular at that time.

My place is in a remote and backward area. When there is a video, there is no electricity. It is seventy or eighty miles away from the city. I can't say that I will go to the city to watch a video. When there is electricity, TV sets and shadow spy cameras have spread all over urban and rural areas. Who will never forget what video? So there is no video of how to react.