American media: The mobile movie that once brought to the countryside is disappearing

The US "National Geographic" magazine July 7th article, original title: Faced with technology, the "cinema" that once brought the joyful flowing "cinema" to the countryside of China is disappearing. Professional screenplayer. I found him in the roadside of Mai Dilong (Yin) Township, Sichuan Province. There was almost no trace of movies there. If you want to go to the nearest indoor theater, the locals will drive along a chilling mountain road for 3 hours. Essence Zhang's face was exposed to the sun like a leather mask, and he said, "I like movies. But I don’t make movies, just screen."

In the past 1/4 century, Zhang has shown hundreds of films to thousands of local villagers. At the age of 56, he is one of the last batch of rural film screenplays in China. They are a group that is gradually disappearing, crossing remote and orolated villages, and at night, free movies are used to show the screen on the public open space.

In his early years, Zhang rushed around through walking and riding an old projector. Recently, he took a car by car. He can recite all the lines of classic patriotic films such as "Long March" and "Sister Liu". Since the reform of the 1980s, his mobile screen has expanded to a more relaxed entertainment movie, and it has also been interrupted in public welfare videos such as AIDS, forest fire prevention, rural health and anti -drugs. Zhang said: "This is a hard work. The road conditions here are very bad, so I am exhausted. But when I screen the movie, people are very happy and satisfied. Zhang moved away the pile of bulky screening box, carefully opened a small white projector from the 1970s, and then a blue projector from the 1980s. "These are always part of my life."

Due to the influence of competition from TV and smartphones in recent years, Zhang's screening circle has become smaller and smaller. Now he only goes to the four villages around the Hengduan Mountains every month to screen movies. Many rural areas in China have become empty because of people entering the city, and the audience has gradually become old and less and less.

The film has helped China to build socialism. As early as 1950, nearly 2,000 technicians were trained in order to use a projector in the vast rural areas of the country. The team quickly expanded, and the flowers rushed into the remote village with the "movie car" of the flowers. At that time, many Chinese people never watched movies. A projector in Guizhou Province was surprised to find that nearly 5,000 audiences were waiting for him to play a movie in a remote village.

Zhang said: "I use horses and mules, sometimes my shoulder handling equipment." Later, he became the most popular traveler in the local area. The children in the village cheered for his arrival. Whenever the movie is progressing slowly, the old people drag the stools aside and chat in the night sky. Later, a signal tower appeared in the skyline in the local mountainous area. Zhang said: "TV came here in 1991, that was the starting point of the end of (open -air movie). But I think open -air movies may be popular. Now people are tired of competing for remote control at home ... miss everyone gathering together ... Feeling. "(Author Paul Saolopek, translated by Ding Yan)

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