Who is the earliest movie projectionist in China
In 1972, the leaders of Hebei Provincial Film Company and Tangshan Municipal Film Company came to Leting to look for movie projectionists to go abroad, and after political and technical examination, they decided that Tan Qingsen would be the candidate to go abroad. After being reported for approval for about half a year, it was finalized. July 24, 1972, Tan Qingsen reported to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the first focus on learning general knowledge of diplomacy, diplomatic etiquette and various tasks. After the end of the study, become the Chinese people's **** and one of the official members of the country's economic and trade exhibition group. August 15 by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Council for the promotion of trade leaders, led by Gao Yi, Guo Dongpo and so on to Iraq. The exhibition group of 24 people by plane from Beijing by Irkutsk, USSR, Obensk, arrived in Moscow, in the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union to stay for two days. During this period, the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union arranged to visit the Red Square, Lenin's Tomb and the Tomb of the Unknown Martyrs, and on August 18th changed to the Soviet Union civil aviation aircraft flew to Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Immediately after arriving in Iraq, the intense exhibition work began. At that time was the hottest season in Iraq, the daytime temperature up to more than 50 degrees, typical of the Arabian desert climate, all the comrades are extremely uncomfortable, but the exhibition task is heavy, intense, everyone braved the heat, and actively work. Baghdad Expo is a world-class large-scale international exhibition, each country has a cinema hall to show their own movies, Chinese movies are the most popular, the most people to see the Chinese exhibition and movies. Because there were too many people at the exhibition site, the Chinese exhibition group built the cinema hall in the square and showed Chinese movies for the visitors every night, and often people were reluctant to leave even after the movie was over. The Iraqi people have deep feelings for the Chinese people, and they often applauded and gave thumbs up when they watched the movie "Heroes and Daughters", which was a very touching scene. In line with the exhibition, cultural exchanges, the movie is a very good form, the Chinese movie screening in Iraq has received very good results. A reporter from Xinhua News Agency took photos on the spot and reported it at home and abroad, and Iraqi TV broadcasted it at the same time. During his work in Iraq, Tan Qingsen overhauled the projection equipment and trained the projectionists for the Chinese Embassy in Iraq, and showed several movies for the staff of the Embassy. The Chinese Embassy in Iraq, Mr. Gong Dafei, the Chinese Embassy in Kuwait, Mr. Sun Shengwei, and the Iraqi Ministry of Culture received Tan Qingsen. After the end of the exhibition in Iraq, the group moved to neighboring Kuwait for the exhibition until the end of the exhibition in January 1973 via Karachi, Pakistan back to China. After staying in the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan for 2 days, the delegation stayed in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, for 1 day and returned to Beijing in February 1973, successfully accomplishing the foreign affairs mission of the movie abroad. Through this trade exhibition, the Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges were strengthened and trade exchanges were expanded. In this regard, on March 7, 1992, Tangshan Labor Daily featured Tan Qingsen's deeds under the title of "Tangshan People in Film Foreign Affairs". After the founding of the country, Tangshan region, excellent film projectionist *** there are three people abroad on missions, one is the original Changli County projectionist Qi Shoulien, another is the ceramic factory projectionist Chen Weiming, followed by Tan Qingsen. In Leiting County, Tan Qingsen is one of the earlier abroad, and is the highest specifications of the group, on behalf of the country's cultural exchanges with foreign countries. At that time, after returning home from the mission, the first to report to the China Film Corporation, generally do not return to their hometown, stay in the upper level of the film company work. Qi Shoulien returned to China and became the manager of Tangshan Film Company. Tan Qingsen because his family is a rural household, the household registration problem can not be solved, did not stay in the field work, directly back to the Leiting movie theater, still doing projectionist work until retirement. The mission abroad, so that Tan Qingsen by the exercise, broaden their horizons, but also saw the gap between China's industrial level and the developed countries. He carefully movie career, the operation of technology diligently, in the aftermath of the years, for the Leiting movie business wrote a glorious page, made due contribution.