“If I'm not the last one, I'm close,” Feliciano told Reuters. “This is a legacy that is going to end. When I'm gone, traveling cinema will be mentioned in articles, but only as a memory.” #

Feliciano shows a film in Castro Verde, Portugal. “This is a ride of unpredictable emotions, never easy. The sound must be good, the image clear, the equipment protected for travel. I'm like a trapeze artist without a net,” he said. #

“Our entertainment was the traveling cinema, we didn't have anything else, no TV, no radio, we were very poor,” Nazare Alfaia, 71, said to Reuters. “I don't know how to read, so I can't remember the names of the films, but they were adventures, cowboys and horses.” #

Feliciano spools film onto projection reels at Girasol cinema in Vila Nova de Milfontes, Portugal. “It's a shame that this important cultural expression is lost, that when I die there will be no one left to go from village to village to show a film,” he said. #

“Sometimes I feel like I ‘am’ cinema,” he said. “At a screening, here's the machine, the screen, the audience, all concentrated together, we laugh, cry together. And without me it doesn't work. Thrilling.” #