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Pic story: rural projectionist of open-air cinemas in Tibet

Xinhua, June 13, 2022 Adjust font size:

 

Lodro gears up for movie projecting in Latog Village, Damxung County of Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 20, 2022.

(Xinhua/Liu Ying)

Living in Damxung County of Lhasa, Lodro is a rural projectionist of non-profit open-air cinemas. Since 1985, Lodro has traveled to nearly two hundred villages on the grasslands of northern Tibet.

For the audiences in remote areas, Lodro has repeated film-screening procedures again and again, setting up the screen and stereo, checking and trouble-shooting the generator and projector, gearing up for projecting, so on and so forth.

The films screened range from action and war movies to documentaries on livestock farming and breeding, thus bringing the herdsmen closer to each other and enriching their spiritual life.

Damxung County, with an average altitude of more than 4,300 meters, is famous for its livestock raising base.

Lodro was ten years old when he saw a movie for the first time. As Lodro recalled, movie projecting was an honored job at that time.

"It was not allowed to touch the projector in the iron box, and whenever a movie was to be screened, the villagers would pitch in to help set up the screen," said Lodro.

"The well-known singer Cedain Zhoema's performance in Beijing still remains fresh in my memory," said Lodro. "Everyone was excited while watching it on the screen, cheering and applauding. Even the back of the screen was crowded with people."

Later, the smart and hardworking Lodro, became a projectionist when the county recruited film projectionists.

In the 1980s and 1990s, watching movies was a rare pastime to herdsmen. Yet Lodro, driving a hand-held tractor loaded with film screening equipment and daily necessities, took frequent trips to villages of Damxung County, presenting open-air movies to the villagers. Each trip took more than three months.

Along the years, Lodro's movie projectors have been upgraded from traditional to digital technology. Now, the open-air cinemas in the villages are slated to be shifted to indoors, so as to provide villagers with a more convenient and comfortable film-watching environment.

For Lodro, whether screening films on the windy grassland or in the comfortable indoor cinemas, he is content "as long as people can bask in the joy as the screen flickers."

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