"Could this be the camera and film used for the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China? Oh my God... no wonder it is stored in such a grand way!"
Hearing this, Nie Cai couldn't help but take a breath of air and said.
In the history of the founding of New China, if you had to vote to choose the most important moment, I believe the vast majority of people would choose the founding ceremony.
This is a historic moment, representing the founding of China. No wonder this camera emits a dazzling golden light, even more dazzling than the sun at noon.
News cultural relics are equipment that have photographed important news. If the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China is not important, then there may not be any important news in China as a whole.
On that day when golden chrysanthemums were fragrant more than sixty years ago, the great leader used his sonorous voice with a Hunan accent to announce to the whole world the founding of China, ending more than a hundred years of oppression. The humiliating history of invasion and enslavement has truly made it an independent country.
"The People's Republic of China was established!"
"The Chinese people have stood up since then!"
I believe that as long as you are a Chinese, you will have heard those two passionate words from the great leader, either in movies or TV series. This is an innate sense of pride.
At that moment, the square was packed with people, shouting "Long live", celebrating the happiness of this historic moment.
But unfortunately, no complete information about this solemn and great moment has been left.
Only these two sentences are left in the color video materials of the Founding Ceremony of the People's Republic of China. This cannot but be said to be a pity in Chinese history.
"My father is a war correspondent. He also participated in the ceremony 60 years ago and took photos of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China. Although he was not qualified to go up to the city tower at that time and did not participate in this historic moment up close. But I will be proud of this for the rest of my life.”
Uncle Luo looked at the machine in the cabinet and said with emotion: "In order to record this historic day and preserve precious historical footage, a Russian film crew came to China to help shoot the grand occasion of the founding ceremony. They used a color film camera at that time. In that era of scarcity, this was almost the best equipment. Moreover, the preparatory team for the Founding Ceremony at that time gave the shooting team the highest level of preferential treatment and cooperation. These photographers were authorized to do whatever they wanted. Photographing everyone on the city tower. The leaders allowed them to film as they pleased and cooperated with their instructions. On the ground, there was also a small jeep to assist them, and even a high platform was specially set up in the square for them to Framing.”
"Isn't it? This is a major celebration of the founding of a country. There is no price too high to spend to record this historical moment. However, I remember that the video of the founding ceremony is only a mere four-minute clip. This is very important for the founding of a country. The celebration is definitely not enough, right?”
Nie Cai seemed to understand and nodded. This kind of historical inside story interested him very much.
"Of course it's not enough. Let alone four minutes, four hours is too little..."
Uncle Luo seemed to have heard his father tell it countless times, and he remembered this matter clearly, telling it to Nie Cai as if it were a story.
At the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, the photographers from Russia were all a group of young men. This time they took advantage of the various convenient conditions provided by China to shoot the new founding ceremony. They were very motivated and ran up and down the day of the founding ceremony. , kept shooting with the camera on, not afraid of hard work or tiredness, from day to night, from speeches to flag-raising parades, and then to fireworks celebrations, at least dozens of hours of precious historical data were captured.
At that time, Uncle Luo's father saw them carrying dozens of heavy film boxes back to the Xihua Hotel where they were staying, filling a hotel room.
Uncle Luo paused and said: "My father was itching at that time and asked to see these color films, but he was stopped by the security guards. The photographers also told my father that it wouldn't take long before they The edited documentary would be sent to the capital. My father was a little regretful, but he still went back. Unexpectedly, that time turned out to be the biggest regret in his life."
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Nie Cai's heart tightened inexplicably and he asked quickly.
"You can tell just by looking at this camera... Film is a flammable substance. A house of film is almost like a gunpowder magazine. At five o'clock in the morning, the hotel caught fire."
Uncle Luo's face showed a look of great regret, and he said: "Several Russian photographers burst into tears in front of the burning room and shouted, "It's over." Our soldiers were all red-eyed at that time, and they went desperately to Rushing into the fire, my hair and eyebrows were all burned, and my skin was even burnt black."
Daqing, the founding of China, can almost be said to be the most important moment in China's history. It is simply a pity that such important information was destroyed by a fire.
I heard that the photographers were smoking in the hotel and the cigarette butts were not strong enough to put out, which caused this major regret. It is said that after they returned to China, they were directly sent to Siberia to work as hard labor.
But it is useless to punish these photographers. Just because of such a small negligence of the Russian photographer, it caused historical regrets that can never be repaired. Almost all the dozens of rolls of film taken at that time were burned and turned into ashes. Only Several broken pieces of film that the soldiers risked their lives to carry out have been preserved.
Although our own photographers were also involved in filming at the time, they used backward black-and-white cameras, and their lens angles and coordination were not as good as those of Russian photographers. They were unable to completely record the entire founding ceremony. This cannot be said to be a huge event. Pity.
"Maybe it was God's blessing that dozens of hours of film recording the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China were burned to the ground, and the only film that was saved was the most important sentences!"
Uncle Luo looked a little weird and said: "My father was a member of the team responsible for restoring the film at the time. I heard that when the rescued film was restored, I heard that the whole team was so excited that they cried. Dozens of hours of data Only four minutes have been preserved, but the two key words of 'The People's Republic of China was established' and 'The Chinese people have stood up since then'."
Reporters who have photographed leaders’ speeches all know that although leaders’ speeches are long, there are always one or two representative sentences. As long as these two sentences are captured, the task is basically completed.
These two sentences are the essence of the great leader's speech at the founding ceremony. All the materials have been destroyed, but these two paragraphs have been preserved. Apart from God's blessing, there are really no other words to describe it.