Discover China: Generations of rural movie projectionists keep tradition alive

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A projector, piles of filmstrips, and a wall or a piece of cloth are all Zhu Qiang and his father Zhu Shengrong need for their “mobile cinema” in Maming Village, east China’s Zhejiang Province.

As summer vacation started and with the gradual revival of open-air events amid regular COVID-19 prevention and control measures, the 33-year-old projectionist and his father resumed nighttime film screenings in village squares.

Known as the third and the fourth generations of local projectionists, they took over the job from their predecessors, 85-year-old Wang Zhihua and his apprentice Zhu Wenbing, who began to show movies in the village about 60 years ago.

 

Source:http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/18/c_139300197.htm