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It's fun to see ourselves on screen!
It's fun to see ourselves on screen!
See also
* [[List of educational films about film handling and projection]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207113625/http://www.madcornishprojectionist.co.uk/anthologyall.php Peter Knight's Projectionists Anthology]
* [https://mubi.com/lists/we-make-the-movies-go-films-featuring-projectionists-and-projection-booths https://mubi.com/lists/we-make-the-movies-go-films-featuring-projectionists-and-projection-booths]
* [http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/115874 http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/115874] (Appendix: Films featuring projectionists)


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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero ''Last Action Hero''] || John McTiernan || 1993 || Featured ||
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Light ''Empire of Light''] || Sam Mendes || 2022 || Featured ||  
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_(2022_film) ''Pearl''] || Ti West || 2022 || Featured || Features a projectionist working in a 1918 single projector booth, with some technical errors.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergman_Island ''Bergman Island''] || Mia Hansen-Løve || 2021 || Featured ||
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Wind ''The Other Side Of The Wind''] || Orson Wells || 2018 || Featured || Excellent projectionist & booth moments throughout
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| [http://www.ihearvoices.gr/project/24-frames-per-century ''24 Frames Per Century''] || Athina Rachel Tsangari || 2013 || Featured || Tsangari's short film was made to commemorate the 70th Venice International Film Festival and features two projectors facing the sea and speaking to each other.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillerama ''Chillerama''] || Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan, Adam Green, Joe Lynch || 2011 ||
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Days ''Stella Days''] || Thaddeus O'Sullivan || 2011 || Featured || An Irish priest starts a community cinema and feels conflicted.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road,_Movie ''Road, Movie''] || Dev Benegal || 2009 || Featured ||
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film) ''Hugo''] || Martin Scorsese || 2011 || Featured ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janji_Joni ''Janji Joni''] || Joko Anwar || 2005 || Featured ||
  | [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1686660/ ''Cinema Komunisto''] || Mila Turajlic || 2010 || Featured || A documentary about President of Yugoslavia Josip Tito as told through his personal projectionist. He claims to have screened a film for Tito every single night for over 30 years.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_the_Road ''Kings of the Road''] || Wim Wenders  || 1976  || Featured || One of the most beautiful films featuring film projection, ''Kings of the Road'' follows a projector repairman and his suicidal cohort as they visit various theaters in Eastern Germany.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Useful_Life ''A Useful Life''] || Federico Veiroj || 2010 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock,_Jr. ''Sherlock,Jr.''] || Buster Keaton  || 1924  || Featured || Buster Keaton as a projectionist who falls asleep on the job and enters the frame himself...
  | [http://vimeo.com/45606784 ''Maurice''] || Patrick Brice || 2010 || Featured || Short documentary on a Paris porno projectionist.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Projectionist ''The Projectionist''] || Harry Hurwitz  || 1971  || Featured ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road,_Movie ''Road, Movie''] || Dev Benegal || 2009 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso ''Cinema Paradiso''] || Giuseppe Tornatore  || 1988  || Featured ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds ''Inglorious Basterds''] || Quentin Tarantino || 2009 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smallest_Show_on_Earth ''The Smallest Show on Earth''] || Basil Dearden  || 1957  || Featured || Peter Sellers as a drunk (yet committed!) projectionist working at a struggling theater
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Longlegs_%282009_film%29 ''Daddy Longlegs''] || Josh & Bennie Safdie || 2009 || Featured || A man struggles to watch his two young sons while working as a projectionist in New York City.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds ''Inglorious Basterds''] || Quentin Tarantino  || 2009  || Featured ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Shanti_Om ''Om Shanti Om''] || Farah Khan || 2007 || Featured || Our hero watches dailies in a studio screening room. His buddy, who is operating the projector, has manipulated the footage as part of a plot to close in on the villain!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Dragon_Inn ''Goodbye,Dragon Inn''] || Tsai Ming-liang  || 2003  || Featured  ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_%28film%29 ''Zodiac''] || David Fincher || 2007 || Incidental || No actual projection booth scenes, but one of the main suspects in the Zodiac murders case is a projectionist who works in a silent film house named Rick Marshall. Marshall doesn't appear in the film as a character, but there is a scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character visits the house of a friend of Marshall's ( a silent film organist) and sees his creepy basement film collection.
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  | ''Projection Instructions'' || Morgan Fisher  || 1976  || Featured || Morgan Fisher's Avant-garde films often touch on film as a medium and projection. A good description of some of his films can be found [http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=847 here]
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janji_Joni ''Janji Joni''] || Joko Anwar || 2005 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Comet ''Night of the Comet''] || Thom Eberhardt  || 1984  || Incidental || a high school girl shacks up in the booth with her projectionist boyfriend, leaving her as one of the sole survivors after a comet eradicates most of humanity.
  | [http://www.reelparadise.com/ ''Reel Paradise''] || Steve James || 2005 || Incidental ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins ''Gremlins''] || Joe Dante  || 1984  || Incidental  || The gremlins gather in a movie theater to watch ''Snow White''. Chaos ensues!
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_Burns ''John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns''] || John Carpenter || 2005 || Featured || A film collector (and projectionist) dies a gory projector-related death!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Movie ''The Muppet Movie''] || James Frawley  || 1979  || Incidental || Animal is the projectionist as the Muppets watch a cut of ''The Muppet Movie''. Needless to say, some film frames burn.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moumen_Smihi ''A Muslim Childhood''] || Moumen Smihi || 2005 || Incidental || The cinema plays a formative role in the life of a teenage boy growing up in Tangier. One brief shot of a projectionist (and turret).
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_%28film%29 ''Zodiac''] || David Fincher  || 2007  || Incidental  || No actual projection booth scenes, but one of the main suspects in the Zodiac murders case is a projectionist who works in a silent film house named Rick Marshall. Marshall doesn't appear in the film as a character, but there is a scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character visits the house of a friend of Marshall's ( a silent film organist) and sees his creepy basement film collection.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Dragon_Inn ''Goodbye, Dragon Inn''] || Tsai Ming-liang || 2003 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club ''Fight Club''] || David Fincher  || 1999  || Incidental  || One of the more well known projectionist scenes in film, Brad Pitt's character shows us how cue-marks work and how he spends his time splicing porno frames into regular films.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_Monk ''Bulletproof Monk''] || Paul Hunter || 2003 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://www.reelparadise.com/ ''Reel Paradise''] || Steve James  || 2005  || Incidental  ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Eyes_(film) ''Porn Theatre (also: "Glowing Eyes", "La chatte à deux têtes"''] || Jacques Nolot || 2002 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://cironline.org/reports/behind-story-cinema-komunisto-3564 ''Cinema-Komunisto''] || Mila Turajlic || 2010  || Featured  || A documentary about President of Yugoslavia Josip Tito as told through his personal projectionist. He claims to have screened a film for Tito every single night for over 30 years.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Is_East_(1999_film) ''East Is East''] || Damien O'Donnell || 1999 || ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Beehive ''The Spirit of the Beehive''] || Víctor Erice  || 1973  || Incidental || A traveling cinema comes to a Spanish village and screens ''Frankenstein''
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club ''Fight Club''] || David Fincher || 1999 || Incidental || One of the more well known projectionist scenes in film, Brad Pitt's character shows us how cue-marks work and how he spends his time splicing porno frames into regular films.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_Burns ''John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns''] || John Carpenter  || 2005  || Featured  || A film collector (and projectionist) dies a gory projector-related death!
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cit%C3%A9_de_la_peur ''La Cité de la peur''] || Alain Berbérian || 1994 ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler ''The Tingler''] || William Castle  || 1959  || Featured || Much of the film is set at a movie theater, and there's a significant scene during which a projectionist meets THE TINGLER! Also features an early depiction of LSD ingestion.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero ''Last Action Hero''] || John McTiernan || 1993 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Useful_Life ''A Useful Life''] || Federico Veiroj  || 2010  || Featured ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_(1993_film) ''Matinee''] || Joe Dante || 1993 || Featured || Climax ends in the projection booth, John Goodman operates a third projector from behind the screen.
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  | [http://vimeo.com/45606784 ''Maurice''] || Patrick Brice  || 2010  || Featured  || Short documentary on a Paris porno projectionist.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_See_the_Paradise ''Come See the Paradise''] || Alan Parker || 1990 || ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculin_Féminin ''Masculin Féminin''] || Jean-Luc Godard  || 1966  || Incidental  || Jean-Pierre Leaud yells at the projectionist for messing up the aspect ratio!
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_Zero ''Apartment Zero''] || Martin Donovan || 1989 || ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Was_an_Acrobat%27s_Daughter ''She Was An Acrobat's Daughter''] || Friz Freleng  || 1937  || Incidental  || A duck projectionist has some technical issues.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso ''Cinema Paradiso''] || Giuseppe Tornatore || 1988 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1773058/ ''Stella Days''] || Thaddeus O'Sullivan  || 2011  || Featured  || An Irish priest starts a community cinema and feels conflicted.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguish_(1987_film) ''Anguish''] || Bigas Luna || 1987 || Incidental || A killer in the booth!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets ''Targets''] || Peter Bogdanovich  || 1968|| Incidental  || A drive-in movie theater projectionist is shot by a sniper through the projection port!
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Up_Roses_(1986_film) ''Coming Up Roses''] || Stephen Bayly || 1986 || Featured || When the cinema where they work closes the projectionist and concessionaire attempt to start a mushroom growing business in the auditorium. Set and filmed in Wales.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_Monk ''Bulletproof Monk''] || Paul Hunter  || 2003  || Featured  ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End_Drive-In ''Dead End Drive-In''] || Brian Trenchard-Smith || 1986 || Incidental || Set at a dystopian drive-in where no one can leave. Trenchard-Smith's films are seen on the screen, one very brief projection booth moment, and the manager walks around carrying Goldberg cans in several scenes.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_%28film%29 ''Hellzapoppin'''] || H. C. Potter  || 1941  || Incidental  ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(1985_film) ''Demons''] || Lamberto Bava || 1985 || ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_by_Night ''Clash By Night''] || Fritz Lang  || 1951  ||   ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperately_Seeking_Susan ''Desperately Seeking Susan''] || Susan Seidelman || 1985 || Featured || Aidan Quinn plays a projectionist, two scenes are shot in the booth (the now closed Bleeker Street Theater in New York City). Also some criminals break into Aidan's apartment and dump all his reels of film on the floor!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%27s_Movie_Muddle ''Luke's Movie Muddle''] || Hal Roach  || 1916  ||   ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Comet ''Night of the Comet''] || Thom Eberhardt || 1984 || Incidental || a high school girl shacks up in the booth with her projectionist boyfriend, leaving her as one of the sole survivors after a comet eradicates most of humanity.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Longlegs_%282009_film%29 ''Daddy Longlegs''] || Josh & Bennie Safdie  || 2009 || Featured  || A man struggles to watch his two young sons while working as a projectionist in New York City.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins ''Gremlins''] || Joe Dante || 1984 || Incidental || The gremlins gather in a movie theater to watch ''Snow White''. Chaos ensues!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film) ''Hugo''] || Martin Scorsese || 2011 || Featured ||  
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Ying ''Ah Ying''] || Allen Fong || 1983 || Featured || Two people lovingly clean the port glass in a small screening room. Later, a main character enters a different projection booth to yell at a projectionist for removing a scene from the print.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Iron ''Man of Iron''] || Andrzej Wajda || 1981 || Featured || Long scene in a very well decorated projection booth about 35mins in.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Movie ''The Muppet Movie''] || James Frawley || 1979 || Incidental || Animal is the projectionist as the Muppets watch a cut of ''The Muppet Movie''. Needless to say, some film frames burn.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_the_Road ''Kings of the Road''] || Wim Wenders || 1976 || Featured || One of the most beautiful films featuring film projection, ''Kings of the Road'' follows a projector repairman and his suicidal cohort as they visit various theaters in Eastern Germany.
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| ''Projection Instructions'' || Morgan Fisher || 1976 || Featured || Morgan Fisher's Avant-garde films often touch on film as a medium and projection. A good description of some of his films can be found [http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=847 here]
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Change_(film) ''Small Change''] || François Truffaut || 1976 ||
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Beehive ''The Spirit of the Beehive''] || Víctor Erice || 1973 || Incidental || A traveling cinema comes to a Spanish village and screens ''Frankenstein''
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Projectionist ''The Projectionist''] || Harry Hurwitz || 1971 || Featured ||  
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets ''Targets''] || Peter Bogdanovich || 1968 || Incidental || A drive-in movie theater projectionist is shot by a sniper through the projection port!
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(1967_film) ''Casino Royale''] || John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Val Guest || 1967 ||
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculin_Féminin ''Masculin Féminin''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1966 || Incidental || Jean-Pierre Leaud yells at the projectionist for messing up the aspect ratio!
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(1966_film) ''Persona''] || Ingmar Bergman || 1966 || Incidental || Film opens with beautiful images of film running through a projector. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TJ2d7-1e8 ''here'']
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_%28film%29 ''Contempt''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1963 || Incidental || Watch an angry Jack Palance smack a pile of film cans out of the hands of a very dejected looking projectionist.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_%28film%29 ''Contempt''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1963 || Incidental || Watch an angry Jack Palance smack a pile of film cans out of the hands of a very dejected looking projectionist.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cléo_from_5_to_7 ''Cléo from 5 to 7''] || Agnès Varda || 1962 || Featured || Cléo and her friend Dorothée deliver a print to Dorothée's boyfriend Raoul, a projectionist at a Paris cinema. They all watch a short film (starring  Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina) from the booth.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler ''The Tingler''] || William Castle || 1959 || Featured || Much of the film is set at a movie theater, and there's a significant scene during which a projectionist meets THE TINGLER! Also features an early depiction of LSD ingestion.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob ''The Blob''] || Irvin Yeaworth || 1958 ||
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smallest_Show_on_Earth ''The Smallest Show on Earth''] || Basil Dearden || 1957 || Featured || Peter Sellers as a drunk (yet committed!) projectionist working at a struggling theater
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_and_the_Beautiful ''The Bad and the Beautiful''] || Vincente Minnelli || 1952 ||
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_by_Night ''Clash By Night''] || Fritz Lang || 1951 ||  ||
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  | [http://youtu.be/5iXQ9BpTbBY ''Mother Goose''] || Ray Harryhausen || 1946 || Featured || A goose projectionist!
  | [http://youtu.be/5iXQ9BpTbBY ''Mother Goose''] || Ray Harryhausen || 1946 || Featured || A goose projectionist!
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  | [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_%28film%29 ''Persona''] || Ingmar Bergman || 1966 || Incidental || Film opens with beautiful images of film running through a projector. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TJ2d7-1e8 ''here'']
  | ''Cartoons Ain't Human'' || Seymour Kneitel || 1943 || Featured || Popeye makes an animated cartoon and projects it for his family. Toward the end, it becomes an expanded cinema performance!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moumen_Smihi ''A Muslim Childhood''] || Moumen Smihi || 2005 || Incidental || The cinema plays a formative role in the life of a teenage boy growing up in Tangier. One brief shot of a projectionist (and turret).
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_%28film%29 ''Hellzapoppin'''] || H. C. Potter || 1941 || Incidental ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cléo_from_5_to_7 ''Cléo from 5 to 7''] || Agnès Varda || 1962 || Featured || Cléo and her friend Dorothée deliver a print to Dorothée's boyfriend Raoul, a projectionist at a Paris cinema. They all watch a short film (starring  Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina) from the booth.  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Was_an_Acrobat%27s_Daughter ''She Was An Acrobat's Daughter''] || Friz Freleng || 1937 || Incidental || A duck projectionist has some technical issues.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Iron ''Man of Iron''] || Andrzej Wajda || 1981 || Featured || Long scene in a very well decorated projection booth about 35mins in.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_Please ''This Way Please''] || Robert Florey || 1937 || Featured || A musical comedy set in a movie theater, features a musical number and a fight scene both in the projection booth.
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  | [https://vimeo.com/69979997 "24 Frames Per Century"] || Athina Rachel Tsangari || 2013 || Featured || Tsangari's short film was made to commemorate the 70th Venice International Film Festival and features two projectors facing the sea and speaking to each other.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Kiss ''The Death Kiss''] || Edward L. Marin || 1932 || Featured ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Kiss ''The Death Kiss''] || Edward L. Marin || 1932 || Featured ||
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock,_Jr. ''Sherlock,Jr.''] || Buster Keaton || 1924 || Featured || Buster Keaton as a projectionist who falls asleep on the job and enters the frame himself...
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_(1993_film) ''Matinee''] || Joe Dante || 1993 || Featured || Climax ends in the projection booth, John Goodman operates a third projector from behind the screen.  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_of_War!_(film) ''Dogs of War!''] || Robert F. McGowan || 1923 || Featured || The "Our Gang" kids bust into Hollywood, make their own movie, and then project it.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguish_(1987_film) ''Anguish''] || Bigas Luna || 1987 || Incidental|| A killer in the booth!
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Nibs_(film) ''His Nibs''] || Gregory La Cava || 1921 || Featured || Set in a rural theater run by an elderly projectionist nicknamed "His Nibs," featuring a film within a film that the projectionist narrates because someone cut out the title cards. The film includes number of projection related gags.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Wind ''The Other Side Of The Wind''] || Orson Wells || 2018 || Featured|| Excellent projectionist & booth moments throughout
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%27s_Movie_Muddle ''Luke's Movie Muddle''] || Hal Roach || 1916 || ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Eyes_(film) ''Porn Theatre (also: "Glowing Eyes", "La chatte à deux têtes"''] || Jacques Nolot || 2002 || Featured||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Countryman_and_the_Cinematograph ''The Countryman and the Cinematograph''] || Robert W. Paul || 1901 || ||
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperately_Seeking_Susan ''Desperately Seeking Susan''] ||  Susan Seidelman || 1985 || Featured|| Aidan Quinn plays a projectionist, two scenes are shot in the booth (the now closed Bleeker Street Theater in New York City). Also some criminals break into Aidan's apartment and dump all his reels of film on the floor!
 
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==See Also==
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_Please ''This Way Please''] || Robert Florey || 1937 || Featured || A musical comedy set in a movie theater, features a musical number and a fight scene both in the projection booth.
* [https://vimeo.com/76383856 85 Years of the Projection Booth in Movies] ([https://letterboxd.com/nungee/list/85-years-of-the-projection-booth-in-movies/ Letterboxd list])
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* [https://www.imdb.com/keyword/projectionist List of films on IMDb tagged with keyword "projectionist"]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Up_Roses_(1986_film) ''Coming Up Roses''] || Stephen Bayly || 1986 || Featured || When the cinema where they work closes the projectionist and concessionaire attempt to start a mushroom growing business in the auditorium. Set and filmed in Wales.
* [https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/161849 List of films on TMDB tagged with keyword "projectionist"]
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* [[List of educational films about film handling and projection]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207113625/http://www.madcornishprojectionist.co.uk/anthologyall.php Peter Knight's Projectionists Anthology]
* [https://mubi.com/lists/we-make-the-movies-go-films-featuring-projectionists-and-projection-booths Mubi list of films featuring projectionists and projection booths]
* Films featuring projectionists, in [http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/115874 Claire Jesson, "The projectionist in cinema and the persistence of film," PhD diss. (University of Warwick, 2018), 306-311.]
 


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