THE PROJECTIONISTS: Inside the Booth at Film Forum

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  • čas přidán 12. 01. 2020
  • Film Forum invites you inside our booth for a behind-the-scenes look at the art of film projection, described and demonstrated by our in-house team of projectionists. The projectionists balance multiple screenings on our four screens in a variety of formats, from 16mm, 35mm, to DCP and more, 365 days a year at Film Forum.
    For more information about Film Forum or to buy tickets, please visit our website: filmforum.org/
    Shot at Film Forum in November 2019
    Directed by Coren HG
    Conceived by Katie Skelly
    Featuring Raymond Atterson, Carolyn Funk, and Chris Crouse
    Music by Ian Rose
    Special thanks to Noel McCarthy, Jenny Barton, Lita Robinson, Chaia Mascall, Adam Walker, and Karen Cooper.

Komentáře • 25

  • @wennundaberfilm3343
    @wennundaberfilm3343 Před 2 lety +19

    Reading the comments I feel even the more like having a one in a million job, working at a theatre that still shows 35mm (and other rare formats) once in a while. After more than 20 years it is still magical :-) A warm hello and thank you for this nice video-tour through your booth from the other side of the globe - Rachel, head-projectionist of Kino Cameo in Winterthur, Switzerland

  • @thecleopanda
    @thecleopanda Před rokem +5

    I was a film projectionist for 5 years and it was the best job I ever had!! I learned so much about such a classic skill.

  • @FeliciaMichaels
    @FeliciaMichaels Před 3 lety +17

    My father was a projectionist who worked at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for many years in the late 70s and early 80s. He also owned a few Drive Ins before that. Thanks for this.

  • @jagga10
    @jagga10 Před 2 lety +9

    WOW..!!!! So nice to see 35mm film is still alive, l thought they have gone forever.. keep up with the good work guys, bless you

  • @classicamericancinemas-vs6gz

    Nice work......Projectionist have such great stories about Theaters, movies & "the good ol days"

  • @gmanb5
    @gmanb5 Před 4 lety +16

    This was terrific. It brought back fond memories of being a work study projectionist during my Cinema Studies program at NYU 1983-1985. Thanks.

  • @Designsbyg
    @Designsbyg Před 3 lety +5

    film is not dead. Thank you for sharing.

  • @robert5494
    @robert5494 Před 3 měsíci +1

    My great grandfather was a projectionist for 20 years at the T&D Theater in Oakland. He told us a interesting story about the movie Psycho, and how Alfred HItchcock instructed all theater managers to tell their projectionists to close the curtain at the end of the movie just when the car was being taken out of the water. He even had undercover posing as customers to ensure it was being done. He loved his job a lot.

  • @johnjohn55555
    @johnjohn55555 Před 3 lety +13

    God I miss being a projectionist. Nothing can beat the magical sound of cinema projector starting up then opening the dowser to let the light through the film after the countdown leader. Really starting to miss film projection in everyday cinemas, hopefully laser projection will replace the horrible 2k/ digital junk that replaced film.

  • @JamesHaney
    @JamesHaney Před 3 lety +4

    I was a Projectionist for 13 years, then the Digital Shift put paid to that. It is great to see that some folks get to play with celluloid on the reg. Keep the Reels Spinning!
    🖖♾

  • @nancywight6112
    @nancywight6112 Před 2 lety +3

    Wonderfully interesting. I love FF.Thank you, Nancy Wight

  • @drose8007
    @drose8007 Před 3 lety +3

    The good days oh how I miss the sounds of the 35mm as it run in the projectors. This piece from you did bring back some wonderful memories as I was projectionist for the drive in in Nairobi Kenya.

  • @toygallery8222
    @toygallery8222 Před rokem +2

    God…. I miss this job!!!!!

  • @togo7022
    @togo7022 Před rokem

    One of the most talented and underappreciated jobs/skills

  • @robfriedrich2822
    @robfriedrich2822 Před 2 lety +2

    5:29 I'm a sound man, but my job is comparable. The goal is not to be noticed, to make the show possible, to play an important part and to be satisfied, when it is successful.

  • @franka7557
    @franka7557 Před rokem

    This is delightful. Such enthusiasm. Thank you. ❤️

  • @bluesmike100
    @bluesmike100 Před rokem

    I was an 18 year old in 1980. I fell into the projectionist job after they tossed the union.
    Stadium Drive In f Orange Ca, next to Angel stadium.
    Time of my life. It was a six screen playing double features. Great place for band practice until the general Manger showed up with axes and amps up.there.

  • @samkitty5894
    @samkitty5894 Před rokem

    When I was a little boy I dreamed of being movie projectionist one day. Sixty years later, I still dream...

  • @titaneth6425
    @titaneth6425 Před rokem

    Thanks for sharing this informative video ,stay connected new friend👍👌🥰

  • @toygallery8222
    @toygallery8222 Před rokem +1

    It was so weird when you got a print back in with your writing on it or splices.

  • @davidsinn5758
    @davidsinn5758 Před 2 lety +1

    I did this job for 6 years, loved it but pay was shit. we were just experimenting with digital before I left in 2001.

  • @SatishVasane
    @SatishVasane Před měsícem

    I was also projector operator

  • @taufiqhariyadi1888
    @taufiqhariyadi1888 Před 4 lety +2