Chairman Mao's movie team has arrived!

毛主席的电影队来了!
Mao zhuxide dianyingdui laile!
Chairman Mao's movie team has arrived!
1953, February
Guizhou renmin chubanshe (贵州人民出版社)
27x38.5 cm.
PC-1953-s-001

In the early 1950s much effort was made to bring movies produced by the recently nationalized companies to the countryside. The mobile teams, most often called “projection teams” (放映队), showed the movies and provided political and ideological explanations. This image is from Guizhou province, many of the peasants belong to ethnic minorities.