According to Ye Zhiguang, a filmmaker who has worked in Fanling theater for many years, at that time, the theater was manually designated, and the first line was often designated, so as to leave it to the boss, his friends, relatives, the boss of the film company, etc. to watch the play, but in case of "overlapping" (the same position was assigned to two people, and the hand stroke was wrong), the audience would also be allowed to sit. In addition, in order to increase the number of movies, some theaters will cut off the "credits" (the list of producers), because in Fanling theater, the audience will leave almost all of them as soon as the credits are released. Sometimes, when there is no audience for the show, the announcer will shine the headlight on the screen to tell people that there is no audience for the play, but the film will continue to operate.<br>From the visit of the announcer, we can estimate that the seating rate of Fanling theater is not high. The box office income of Fanling theater can be used as another indicator of seating rate. From the informal box office records of the Hong Kong Film Association, it can be seen that the box office of Fanling theater has been declining since the end of the 1990s, and it fell by about 70% in just three years from 1995 to 1998. Hong Kong's economy fell into recession after the 1997 financial crisis (1998-2003). The box office of Fanling theatre was under one million for six years. During the same period, the box office of Fanling Mingdu theater, which is located next to Fanling railway station, also dropped significantly. Finally, it was suddenly closed in 2006 and the same location was changed to other commercial purposes. Even though the box office of Fanling theater began to pick up in 2004 and even regained the momentum of the late 1990s, it was finally closed in January 2010. The old site was rented out for bathing purposes. With the completion of Fanling capital theater and Fanling theater, there will be no theater for people in the whole Fanling and Sheung Shui District from the end of 2013 to 2016.<br>
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