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Cathay Theater

发布时间:2017-10-25 15:37:33

The prototype for the Cathay Theater, the site is located in Yuzhong District, Lane Lane chai (now Zou Ronglu), because of the special historical content included in the town of the old building sequence of liangjiang movie city, according to the proportion of 1:0.2 in August 2012 after the completion of.

Cathay Theater was built in 1937. Before that, the site of the theater had been a private residence of Zhao Juxu, a member of gentry in Sichuan. At that time, Xia Yunhu, a cultural businessman, run the theater by raising money. Functioned as both a cinema and a drama theatre, the theater was mainly for showing films. So the theater was the largest comprehensive theater in the provisional capital Chongqing during the period of Anti-Japanese War.

Outside the theater, five Chinese characters “国泰大戏院” made of the neon signs attracted passing citizens. At that time, people did not know the name of neon sign, so they called neon sign as auspicious red lamp. In the theater, there were 1500 seats made of steel back-rest and spring pleuche cushion and 6 frosted electrolier lamps suspended from the ceiling. Ambient lights steamed through partitions and 4 exhaust fans were installed on both side walls. Such facilities could be regarded as pretty modern. Chinese characters “国泰” in the name mean peace and prosperity. Constructed in downtown prime location, the theater costed 140,000 silver dollars and was the most splendid among theaters in Chongqing.

After its completion, about a hundred of patriotic and progressive dramas had been performed and hundreds of films had been showed in the theater. During the period of Anti-Japanese War, cultural celebrities like Guo Moruo, Xia Yan, Yang Hansheng, Zhao Dan, Jin Shan, Bai Yang and Zhang Ruifang had made great achievements here. Therefore, the theater was an important position of cultural progressive activities in rear areas, having great impacts on the history of Chinese dramas and films.