1970s Film Projectionist: Across the Rivers and Mountains, Embracing the Times

[Reborn + Period Setting + Making Money + Business Empire + Overwhelming Advantage + Decisive and Ruthless]

In 1974, heavy snow sealed off the mountains.

Hundreds of people in Hongqi Commune stamped their feet against the cold, eagerly waiting to watch a movie, only for the projector to break down.

The secretary slammed the table, the village bully was ready to throw punches, and a riot was about to break out.

Lin Weidong, a media mogul in his previous life who had worked himself to illness, opened his eyes to find this mess in his hands.

Fixing machines was basic know-how. Lin Weidong not only got the screen lit up again, he also came up with fresh ways to use film screenings for publicity.

An accident during a screening became, in his hands, a stepping stone to wealth.

In those days, projectionists were top-tier stars among the "Eight Great Jobs," able to throw their weight around.

While others suffered in the countryside, digging in the fields, Lin Weidong used his rural film screenings to travel from village to village, making the most of the times:

He traded a rare movie ticket for a wild ginseng root that had been treasured by a villager's family for a century;

He used his power to decide the screening schedule to make the usually arrogant village bully bow his head and offer him a cigarette;

Under the pretext of showing films at major factories, he befriended factory directors and legally flipped unsold goods for astronomical sums.

While others were still worrying about their next bowl of cornmeal, he was already making a fortune through the information network he had built as a projectionist.

From a projectionist wandering the streets and villages, to running video halls, to establishing a nationwide theater chain and building the top media empire in Chinese entertainment.

Years later, when Hollywood tried to storm the domestic market with its capital, it discovered that every screen in the East followed one man's rules.

And it all began with that box of discarded film reels someone had thrown away as trash...