Photo shows film projectors collected by a folk museum in Yichang, central China’s Hubei province. (Photo by Zhang Guorong/People’s Daily Online)
Lodro is a rural projectionist in Damxung county, which sits on an average altitude of 4,300 meters in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region. In the past 37 years, Lodro has shown free movies to farmers and herdsmen in nearly 200 villages.
A “movie tour” to villages sometimes took him more than three months, during which he had to take screens, a projector, films, a generator, as well as food and beddings on a hand tractor.
There are many projectionists like Lodro in Tibet. They have left their footprints on almost every piece of inhabited land in the autonomous region, to enrich the cultural life of residents.
Herdsmen in Tibet led a poor cultural life in the 1980s and 1990s as villages…
