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The Cinema Projectionist Archives hold a range of audio-visual resources documenting the working lives of cinema projectionists in Britain from the 1890s to the 2010s. Here you can find extracts from audio interviews with projectionists, videos, documents, magazine articles and possibly the world’s largest online collection of images of projection box. Navigate through the material by decade, theme, or type of material.

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Dovercourt (Essex), The Regal

22/10/2019

Projection box of an Essex cinema in 1940. Used with permission from Screen International.

Tags: 1940s; Essex; projection box; wartime

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Chadwell Heath (Essex / Greater London), Embassy Cinema

19/08/2019

Projection box of a cinema in Chadwell Heath in Greater London in 1934. Used with permission from Screen International.

Tags: 1930s; Essex; Greater London; projection box

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Chadwell Heath (East London), The Gaumont

29/06/2019

Chief projectionist, second operator and team of women projectionists in the projection box of an Essex cinema in 1947. Used with permission from Screen International.

Tags: 1940s; chief projectionist; Essex; Gaumont; London; projection box; projectionists; second operator; women projectionists