Chapter 308: Promoting TV Series (1/2)

"I am a mutant!"

Colin's consciousness was constantly falling as layers of green light enveloped him. In the light, there seemed to be countless figures changing, laughing or wailing, arguing or fighting. These images were vague but extremely unreal.

These flashing images were extremely vague, but occasionally some clear images would briefly stay in Colin's consciousness.

In these temporary images, Colin saw a huge pyramid towering into the clouds, and a figure wearing gorgeous clothes, gray skin, blue lips, holding up a gem emitting green light in his hand and shouting.

Then the picture turned, and the scene of the pyramids turned into a modern city with tall buildings. Various faces of different appearances flashed in it, and the figure grabbed the figure sitting in a wheelchair with one hand and spread out continuously in the green light.

With the appearance of this picture, the scenes in Colin's consciousness flashed more and more frequently, and at the last moment when his consciousness was about to enter the real world, a golden glove flashing with colorful light flashed by.

"I am a mutant!"

At the same time, this cry rang out in his mind again.

But compared to the initial arrogance and majesty, this time the voice seemed particularly desperate.

"Infinity Gauntlet?"

In the positive world, Colin opened his eyes.

But in his mind, there were still the images he saw when his consciousness shuttled, and the last glimpse of the Infinity Gauntlet that seemed to have endless power.

So, this means that Thanos also got a fragment of the Time Stone?

Although the scene in the picture is vague, it is not difficult to see from the context that this is one of the fragments of the Time Stone, and the Infinity Gauntlet that appeared in the last scene also seems to confirm the evidence of Thanos' appearance.

According to the light flashing on the Infinity Stone at the end of the picture, Thanos has obviously collected all the Infinity Stones except the Time Stone, which also means that if the other party wants to collect all the Infinity Stones and snap his fingers, then the remaining two Time Stone fragments in Colin's hand are destined to be the target of the other party.

Unless Colin is willing to give up the Time Stone fragment on his body, otherwise the conflict between the two is bound to happen.

The message brought by the Time Stone fragment made Colin's originally calm mood become a little more urgent.

Although he unlocked some of the superman's power, he did not have the confidence to rely on his incomplete ability to fight against Thanos, who had almost complete power of the Infinity Gauntlet.

However, although he felt the pressure from Thanos, Colin did not forget that among the objects he knew, Dormammu, who had just "visited" the anti-world not long ago, also had a fragment of the Time Stone in his hands.

In other words, if Thanos wanted to collect the complete Time Stone, he needed to target not only Colin, but also other objects with Time Stone fragments.

Some of them, even Colin did not know who they were.

In addition, after getting the Time Stone fragment in the hands of the Red Skull, Colin also clearly noticed that the time flow rate between the positive and negative worlds seemed to have begun to change, which means that if Colin wanted, he could stay in the positive world for a longer time.

This is obviously a good thing for the collection of [Faith].

[Golden Seal (2107/10000)]

As the source of the distortion of the anti-world history, the death of the Red Skull provided Colin with a large amount of [Time Fragments], which directly filled one-fifth of the amount needed to upgrade the [Golden Seal].

Compared to the harvest of [Time Fragments], the collection of [Faith] in the positive world has gradually reached a bottleneck. Although the serialization in the Daily Messenger and the radio drama on the radio still provide him with a certain amount of [Faith], there is obviously still a huge gap compared to the million [Faith] required to upgrade the [Golden Seal].

On the other hand, the market for Superman peripherals and toys is gradually approaching saturation, and it is impossible to provide more [Faith] in a short period of time.

If Colin does not want to drag down the progress of the [Golden Seal] upgrade because of the collection of [Faith] in the positive world, he must think of some ways to promote Superman's popularity.

…

"There are still 72 days left before the big ship sinks!"

In the Port of New York, an endless stream of people gathered at the dock to see the true appearance of the big ship.

The news that Howard Hughes was going to sink a cruise ship in New York had long been known to everyone under the publicity of the Daily Courier.

Even through the exaggeration of radio programs, people from not only New York but also several nearby states spontaneously drove to the port to witness the sinking of this huge ship.

Because the crowds of people who came were so dense, a small business circle was formed around the dock without them noticing. Some people from other states who came from afar not only saw the true face of the giant ship, but also began to stay nearby and brought a certain amount of economic consumption power.

Of course, in addition to this, because of the relationship between these people, some troubles and even some gray industries gradually emerged.

For example, some people were not satisfied with just seeing the outline of the cruise ship on the dock, and wanted to go in and see with their own eyes whether the scene inside was really as gorgeous as the Titanic level as claimed in the Daily Courier.

Therefore, some people took risks and took a small boat to approach the giant ship and tried to climb into the cruise ship through the anchor chain.

Such a crazy move was actually done by someone.

According to Howard Hughes, he didn't discover these guys sneaking onto the ship until the movie was being shot.

Because his outfit was different from that of the actors on the ship, and the cabin he was in did not match his clothing. Finally, when he was discovered by the actors on the ship, he realized that they were "stowaways" who had sneaked into the movie shooting scene.

Afterwards, Howard Hughes deliberately counted the actors on the cruise ship and found a few New Yorkers among them. Later, in order to prevent this situation from happening, Hughes also hired security guards to patrol the places where the ship was prone to infiltration, so as to prevent the above-mentioned 'smuggling' incidents.

"How about it, Colin, are you interested in making a cameo in the movie?"

In the first-class cafe, after a period of running-in, Howard Hughes gradually entered the state.

A real giant ship indeed gave the actors of "Titanic" an almost real sense of presence. Many actors have even gradually forgotten the fact that they were filming the movie, thinking that they were really working on such a giant ship. With.

"certainly."

Facing Hughes' invitation, Colin had no reason to refuse.

The idea of ​​buying a huge ship to simply shoot a movie is unique even in the history of Hollywood. Perhaps only Howard Hughes can do it to this extent. For those who can personally participate in such a Although Colin couldn't be said to be very excited during the movie, he still enjoyed it.

Especially the filming of the "Titanic" movie was personally promoted by him from the beginning.

Without Colin's encouragement, perhaps Howard Hughes would have plunged into the aerospace industry long ago.

On the one-to-one replica of the Titanic ship, he participated in the filming of the banquet scene in the plot as a passenger. The relaxed shooting atmosphere slightly relieved Colin's concentrated emotions due to frequent time loops in the counter-world. , of course, after the film visit, he also specially gave the factory's color TV set to watch Hughes.

Howard Hughes was full of praise for emerging technologies such as television, and even offered to help Colin introduce customers.

I think Hollywood should accept such emerging products.

Colin was noncommittal about this.

If he remembered correctly, for a long time afterwards, Hollywood actually maintained a boycott attitude towards television. Just like the traditional newspaper industry's stance towards radio, Hollywood also believed that the emergence of television was harmful. To the benefit of the film industry.

In fact, a large part of the reason for the emergence of TV series is that filmmakers led by Hollywood did not agree to put the films on TV sets.

It is precisely because of Hollywood's resistance that TV production stations have to produce their own TV series, gradually making TV series an important pillar of the development of the TV industry.

From this point on, Hollywood has actually made almost the same mistake as the traditional newspaper industry, because the resistance to emerging industries has promoted the vigorous development of both the television entertainment and radio industries.

Of course, Hollywood's views are not Colin's focus.

"A TV series? I will watch it on time."

Instead, while leaving the cruise ship, Colin revealed to Howard Hughes that he was planning to make a television series.

At present, thanks to the influence of Roosevelt's previous visit to the factory, the sales of TV sets have attracted a certain degree of audience in a small area. In New York City alone, nearly 50,000 TV sets have been sold, and this does not count. In the case of Radio Corporation of America stealing TV sets.

With a certain viewing base, Colin naturally needs to start promoting the continued development of the television industry.

The only way to get TV attention is to produce popular programs or TV series.

Don't forget, Colin had discussed the "Superman" animation with Walt before, and the purpose was to wait until television became popular in the future to broadcast it.

…

"TV drama?"

CBS Radio, facing Colin's TV series proposal, William Paley showed an obvious look of embarrassment on his face.

At present, CBS has begun to focus on the television industry in its cooperation with Colin, but most of the radio station's focus is still on broadcasting.

After all, radio seems to have a brighter future than the uncertain future of the television industry.

Even throughout the Great Depression, the radio industry's development could best be described as booming.

"What's that?"

For people in this era, TV dramas are obviously still a very new concept.

After all, even the birth of radio dramas only happened in the past few years.

"To put it simply, it is a program that transfers radio dramas to TV. You can think of it as a TV version of a movie."

As CBS's main person to communicate with Colin, William Paley obviously has a better acceptance of TV programs, especially the concept of TV series, which he had briefly discussed with Colin when he was promoting TV sets. .

"If the radio drama is made into a TV series, then in terms of cost..."

However, as the person in charge of CBS Radio, William Paley was a little moved by the TV series Colin mentioned, but he also thought of the staggering expenses required for the entire TV series production process.

Unlike radio dramas, television requires pictures, so a few simple voice actors obviously cannot meet the production needs of TV dramas.

"You can start with the simplest TV dramas."

Colin is also aware of William Paley's concerns, as a new industry that has only been born not long ago.

At present, the programs played on TV can only be sent in the form of live broadcasts, and this form of broadcasting undoubtedly limits the production of most TV dramas.

"As far as I know, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has produced TV dramas a few years ago."

In 1930, the British Broadcasting Corporation produced the world's first TV drama, "The Man with the Speech", which revolves around a seriously ill man spending time in an outdoor cafe and talking to a stranger about his wife.

"CBS, no, the entire American TV industry has fallen behind the British Broadcasting Corporation."

The United States during this period had an extremely complicated relationship with Britain.

Although the United States is essentially a country that was born from Britain, with the evolution of history, the United States has increasingly gotten rid of Britain's control over itself in recent years.

Especially the golden twenty years, the glorious "Roaring Filial Piety Era".

The economic development speed of the United States made Britain at that time feel apprehensive, which led to the birth of the Stevenson Act, which raised the price of important industrial products monopolized by Britain to the United States by more than 2 times. This is the trade war.

In addition, Britain also restricted the exchange of technology and capital, closed the colonial dominions market, and set up a trade protection circle within the British Empire to deal with the aggressive Americans.

Choking, technology war, trade war, market closure, anti-free trade.

Familiar recipe, familiar taste.

It is precisely because of this history that William Paley's expression immediately changed when he heard Colin mention that the BBC took the lead in producing TV series. He looked at Colin and said firmly.

"I, no, CBS will not allow this to happen. I promise you, Mr. Colin, CBS will soon produce a TV series that is not inferior to, no, far superior to, the BBC!"

You can lose to anyone, but you can't lose to Britain.

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