Following Castro's takeover years earlier, Cuba attempted to bring its country out of the dark ages somewhat with cultural and literacy programs. This film features one of the cultural programming ideas: Mobile cinema. Trucks manned by motion picture projectionists make sweeps of remote villages in Cuba in an effort to reach as many people as possible. The projectionists travel through villages with twice daily showings of Charles Chaplin's Modern Times. The film contains brief commentary by villagers and their children on what they think about cinema. Glimpses of Modern Times' screenings indicates the film was quite an event in the lives of these villagers.
Review of For the First Time
