The Projectionist

An Episode of "Cinema" Investigating the underground world of Projection.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Cinema
• Cineworld
• Weymouth
• Jersey
• CI
• Matt
• Fackrell
• Hamish
• Moseley
• Lee
• Gwilliam
• Stuart
• Holdsworth
• Leigh
• Thorne

[kblamo]

OFFICIAL SELECTION AT THE BRANCHAGE JERSEY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!!!!

Winner will be announced on Sunday, let's hope it does well :)

[markalloway1]

You would get away with working in your boxers for sure!!

I once bet a dude who worked with me, that he couldn't go the entire 7 hour shift with his penis hanging out of his pants. Convinced that no one would see him or make comment, he took me up on this wager.

He won. 7 hours later he clocked out, and no one was ever the wiser!

The $20 was worth the cost of laughter that whole shift!

[kblamo]

ha ha ha!! That just sums up the insanity of projection right there.

[WABBIT8]

One of my mates rang projection and they answered, "Hello? Bat cave?". Says it all,really! Do have the grey-shirted technicians a Jersey like we have in Castleford? You don't mention them.

[kblamo]

Yeah, but this was filmed long before the grey shirts were introduced. Besides, the techs just wear what they like anyway.

[LibertyAdams]

This film is great having experienced the wonderful joys of projecton. It truely can drive you to insanity. All the projectionists at the site i work at have a reputation amongst the multifunctionals as being the crazy weirdos locked away upstairs for all eternity.

[kblamo]

That's not just at your site. It's the same at every cinema worldwide. Of course we don't mind multifunctionals thinking that because equally amongst us the multis have a reputation of being the inferior "Downstairs" weirdos.

[tarwood88]

This is brilliant. I've been a projectionist since I was 16 and this video sums up the insanity perfectly. Well done!

[nexgenhippy]

Been a Projie for almost 13 years now myself and this is soo funny:)

looks like Cinemecanica stuff like we use

[fcapote1111]

I've been a projectionist for 25 years I'm now at AMC veterans 24 in Tampa Florida that was some funny shit so much better than all those other fucking crappy vids and I also have big smelly juicy farts that linger in the booth for hours me likey

[ldge]

It can be a very isolating job: I frequently did 12-15 hour double shifts without seeing another human being, which is the one part of the job I really don't miss. Very strange when there are hundreds of people just the other side of the wall from you!

[ProfessorBabyBuns]

I always fill up my booth with the sweet smell of juicy wet farts.

[ceddas21]

I love working up in projection in a theater one reason is I don't have to deal with guest. When it's slow in the cinema there is always work to be done to keep busy in projection.

[because88]

A viewer from Weymouth here. Any tips on becoming a projectionist? (tips on getting a job / things you wish you knew before you started)

[pacosu78]

i get the best of both worlds doing both projections and the box office in my little cinema (single, 223 seats) ^_^

[heartpolice1]

Well, maybe "Strange" was a strong word. I imagine youve gotta not mind working Autonomously!! I love having people around me, I wouldnt last a day doing that, seriously, id prob be carried out on a stretcher  LOL

[pacosu78]

strange? no. we're not strange. you might not even recognize a projectionist in the street (though it helps to look for the bleak guys and dolls crossing you that aren't glimmering in the sun). we're different, sniffing xenon fumes all day does that to you, but strange? naaaaaah! ^_^