But there was no suitable way to show I Love Inventions. Put it in the Theater?
Annan would have to be out of his mind to screen a program that wasn't even a film or drama as a Magic Film, though Evelyn saw nothing wrong with it.
Show it for free in the Square? After Everyone's Singer, Free City no longer needed the publicity. It would be better to get some value out of I Love Inventions than let people watch it for nothing.
In any case, Annan first sent Evelyn to conduct interviews and prepare a script, then to New World Pictures to film the finished program.
If only someone would invent television. Then he could put Cat and Mouse, Everyone's Singer, I Love Inventions, and programs like Free City Broadcast on it... At that point, what difference would there be between this world and his old one?
Why hadn't an Alchemist invented Magic Film along that branch of the tech tree?
Coming back to himself, Annan found Evelyn still standing in the Council Chamber, staring at him.
"Why are you still here?"
"I saw you standing there, spacing out."
"I just thought of something nice."
"Then why the long face?"
"Because all I can do is think about it."
Evelyn pursed her lips. "Can't you find someone else? I still have to edit the highlights of Everyone's Singer."
"Evelyn, you're the best person for the job. Keep at it, and the Minister of Culture in Free City will be you!"
"Always the same..." Evelyn walked off, muttering something about "empty promises" and "as if I want it."
Annan was at a loss. He didn't know what it was about Free City, but more than a few people here seemed to have no attachment to power. Just days ago,