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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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Presentation (Neil Thompson)

29/12/2015

Projectionist Neil Thompson outlines the process of starting the film, checking sound levels and checking the aperture plates as part of good presentation.

Tags: 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Neil Thompson; North-East England; presentation and showmanship; running the show; sound and music

Training (Phil Fawke)

09/12/2015

Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes the process of training 'on the job'.

Tags: 1940s; Phil Fawke; preparing the print; running the show; team relations; training

Routine between change-overs (Phil Fawke)

09/12/2015

Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes the process of changing-over a film including replacing the carbon rods in the arc lamps.

Tags: 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; Phil Fawke; presentation and showmanship; running the show

Editing children's films (Phil Fawke)

09/12/2015

Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes working as a relief projectionist during the war, and being told to show edited versions of films during children's matinees.

Tags: 1940s; Midlands; Phil Fawke; presentation and showmanship; running the show; wartime