The history of developing the west: the rise or death of the west?

1949, American families owned 950,000 TV sets. By 1952, this number has soared to 1 1 10,000, and Hollywood has been hit like never before. 1948 The average weekly audience in the United States was 90 million, and 1952 was reduced to 56 million. Film giants are racking their brains to find new economic growth points.

At this time, in a large indoor tennis court in Oster Bay, Long Island, a group of engineers are working feverishly. They are studying the newly declassified World War II film training equipment. Hollywood giants were shocked to see this new technology, but they thought it was too complicated and expensive to put into production. On September 30th, 1952, engineers had to rent a Broadway theater for the premiere to show their latest technology: movie camera. Art nouveau Rama was invented by photographic engineer Fred Waller and invested by Raul Thomas and producer Mike Todd. Fred Waller worked with silent film emperor David Griffith in several films in his early days, and also participated in the production of black jazz films, which was famous for fancy editing and photography. In the 1930 s, Waller studied Vitarama after receiving funding from Rockefeller Center. This technology uses 1 1 cameras to shoot at the same time, and projects the pictures shot by1/cameras onto a huge screen to form a huge picture. Waller originally planned to launch "Vitarama" at 1939 new york World Expo, but with the approach of World War II, he abandoned the plan because he joined the army. However, he was lucky in the army and was recommended by his friends. He used his multi-projector+giant screen technology to simulate the flight scene of the sky plane, thus inventing a military shooter training machine. In front of the giant screen, the trained soldiers simulated shooting according to the plane appearing on the screen, thus training. 194 1 year, "Vitarama" won an order from the U.S. government, and more than one million people from various services in Britain and the United States used it to train aerial photography. In the army, Waller received letters from thousands of soldiers asking if there was such a movie to watch. After leaving the army, he decided to put this technology into civilian use.

Raul Thomas is also a tough guy in the film industry. He took part in World War I as an army reporter in his early years. After his introduction, Lawrence of Arabia is famous all over the world. Since then, he has been in charge of Fox Film News. When he saw Waller's technology, he decided to buy it. Mike Todd is the boldest producer in Hollywood (one of Elizabeth Taylor's ex-husbands). After seeing Waller's design, he said: This is the greatest thing after the invention of penicillin. We must gain control.