formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
AMIA, in partnership with the Alamo Drafthouse and The Film Foundation, offers a three day Projection Workshop for projectionists and staff presenting 35mm film in theaters. Other workshop partners include Boston Light & Sound and Kodak. Source: AMIA Projection Workshop … Continued
ho plays the movies at today’s multiplexes and cinemas? Until 2011 it was a projectionist who performed a range of duties to do with preparing and showing reels of 35mm celluloid film. Since then, the vast majority of cinemas in the … Continued
The Projection Project is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council which investigates cinematic projection. It documents the projectionist’s role as it passes into history, following the switch of most cinemas to digital projection between 2010 … Continued
The role of the cinema projectionist is one of great importance though often little recognition. In a new series of photographs, Richard Nicholson captures those performing the job today, as the industry transitions from film to digital. Source: Richard Nicholson … Continued
As film gives way to digital, Richard Nicholson gained access to an endangered habitat where most cinema-goers never venture – the projection box – to document the people who make the movies move Source: Keeping it reel: the dying art … Continued
The digital revolution represents the biggest shift in the exhibition sector since the ‘multiplex boom’ of the 1980s. Old-school projection booths, once the beating heart of the cinema-going experience, have all but vanished, replaced by sterile environments housing touch-screen monitors … Continued