海口市为海南岛的主要城市,在国民党统治时,文化教育事业很落后。解放以来,经人民政府有计划地逐步加以改善。1954年以前,全海口市只有一家电影院容纳观众仅四、五百人,设备简陋,若从建筑的观点来看,这座建筑物是不能作为电影放映之用的。海口市文化局在1954年组织公私资本,计划经营一新电影院,择定解放路工人文化宫对面空地为基地。 Haikou City is a major city in Hainan Island. When the Kuomintang ruled, cultural and educational undertakings lag behind. Since the liberation, the people’s government has gradually and progressively improved it. Before 1954, there was only one cinema in the city of Haikou, which only accommodated four or five hundred people. The equipment was simple. From the architectural point of view, this building could not be used as a film screening. Haikou City Cultural Bureau organized public and private capital in 1954, plans to operate a new movie theater, and selected the Jiefang Road Workers Cultural Palace opposite to the open space as a base.