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(Baonghean) - Bringing films to people in the highlands or coastal areas, to the most remote places, is a normal job for officers and soldiers of the Provincial Military Command's Film Projection Team. Traveling with them on a trip to see, to understand more and share the joy of people in remote areas when they hear "Hello! Hello! The Mobile Film Projection Team of the Provincial Military Command would like to announce...".

Major Dang Hong Quang (Captain of the Provincial Military Command's Film Projection Team) is preparing to screen a film for people in Chau Thai (Quy Hop).Photo: Le Thang

Major Dang Hong Quang - Captain of the Film Projection Team of the Provincial Military Command still remembers clearly the memories of each trip to the people. The most memorable was the trip to Dua village (Luong Minh commune, Tuong Duong). When the team crossed mountains, crossed rapids, and had to rely on a buffalo cart to get to the village and set up the backdrop, the people rushed out to watch. The people confided that, since childhood, they had never seen "a TV as big as that. This is the biggest TV they have ever seen". The people were very excited, some people seemed to know more, saying: "That is a TV... a wide screen, there are many in the lowlands!".

That evening, the village of Dua was like having a festival. Children ran back and forth to watch the soldiers make the big machine. The adults organized a feast of young pigs. Or like the movie screening in Song Con village, it was drizzling, and during the screening, one of the two projector bulbs exploded. The villagers still sat in the rain, cutting leaves from the forest to cover their heads, waiting for the soldiers to fix the bulb so that the screening could continue. By the time the program ended, it was almost midnight.

There were villages that arrived but there was no projection yard, so they had to put the projector on the stilt house, and hang the screen outside... on the fence 5 meters away. However, people still came to watch in large numbers. That was the warm and enthusiastic feelings of the people to ease the hard steps of the soldiers doing the film projection work. Therefore, each propaganda film or feature film brought to the remote village, despite many hardships and difficulties, but with the enthusiastic reception of the people, it warmed the hearts of the officers and soldiers in the film projection team.

Working in mountainous, remote and isolated areas is very hard. Areas such as Dam Tran (Ky Son), Xoong Con village, Ve village (Tuong Duong), Chau Thai (Quy Hop)... and many other remote places have left their footprints. Major Dang Hong Quang added: "In one year, we carried out the plan of the Command with many trips to remote and isolated areas, where people really need films to learn more about the vast life outside the villages and mountains. In addition to the task of serving the people, we combine propaganda and mobilization work. Before the screening, the team often organizes the distribution of leaflets, brings more machines to make propaganda programs such as HIV and drug prevention".

On November 24, 2011, Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense of the Vietnam People's Army, issued Decision No. 2605/QD-TM on reorganizing the system of film projection teams in the army. Accordingly, the system of film projection teams in the entire army will be reorganized with 20 teams from 20 provinces and cities nationwide, including Nghe An. Therefore, their responsibility is even heavier. The footsteps of the officers and soldiers of the provincial Military Command's film projection team are still heading towards the people day and night. And every night, in a remote village somewhere in the middle of the vast Nghe An region, we can see the familiar electric lights and loudspeakers: "Hello! Hello! We would like to announce that tonight, the mobile film projection team of officers and soldiers of the provincial Military Command invites everyone to the village chief's yard to watch a film...".

Hai Tran