在公共文娱设施发展史上,出现最晚、数量最多、服务面最广、变化又最快者,当推电影院。电影发明于上世纪末,本世纪初方始建正规影院,现以数十万之众遍布全球,每年有几百亿观众进出其间,而短短八十年,规模、标准、功能,特别是数量已几度沧桑,发展变化很快,从七十年代起,研究影院发展规律以掌握其动向便成为重要课题。当前,我国农村影院正以每年新增上千家的速度迅猛发展,而城镇影院人次连续四年递减,揭开了必须在变革中求发展的序幕。在此转折关头,如何正确评价和接受别国的经验获训,以开辟我国影院现代化之路,实属迫在眉睫。 In the history of the development of public recreation facilities, the most recent, the most numerous, the most widely serviced, and the fastest-changing are the cinemas. At the end of the last century, the film was invented. At the beginning of this century, formal cinemas were established. Today, hundreds of thousands of people are spread all over the world. Every year, several billions of viewers enter and leave the area. In just 80 years, scale, standards, functions, and especially numbers, have been established. After several times of vicissitudes, the development has changed rapidly. Since the 1970s, it has become an important issue to study the development laws of cinemas to grasp their trends. At present, China’s rural cinemas are rapidly developing at a rate of more than one thousand per year, while the number of towns and theaters has declined continuously for four consecutive years, opening a prelude to the need for development in the midst of change. At this critical juncture, how to properly evaluate and accept the experience of other countries to be trained so as to open up the road to the modernization of China’s cinema is extremely imminent.