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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_the_Road ''Kings of the Road'']  || Wim Wenders  || 1976  || Featured  ||  
  | [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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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock,_Jr. ''Sherlock,Jr.''] || Buster Keaton  || 1924  || 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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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Projectionist ''The Projectionist'']  || Harry Hurwitz  || 1971  || Featured  ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Projectionist ''The Projectionist'']  || Harry Hurwitz  || 1971  || Featured  ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso ''Cinema Paradiso'']  || Giuseppe Tornatore  || 1988  || Featured  ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso ''Cinema Paradiso'']  || Giuseppe Tornatore  || 1988  || Featured  ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smallest_Show_on_Earth ''The Smallest Show on Earth'']  || Basil Dearden  || 1957  || Featured  ||  
  | [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 a theater fighting to stay open.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds ''Inglorious Basterds'']  || Quentin Tarantino  || 2009  || Featured  ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds ''Inglorious Basterds'']  || Quentin Tarantino  || 2009  || Featured  ||  
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  | ''Projection Instructions''  || Morgan Fisher  || 1976  || Featured  || A good description of some of Morgan Fisher's films can be found [http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=847 here]
  | ''Projection Instructions''  || Morgan Fisher  || 1976  || Featured  || A good description of some of Morgan Fisher's films can be found [http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=847 here]
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Comet ''Night of the Comet'']  || Thom Eberhardt  || 1984  || Incidental  ||  
  | [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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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins ''Gremlins'']  || Joe Dante  || 1984  || Incidental  ||  
  | [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/The_Muppet_Movie ''The Muppet Movie'']  || James Frawley  || 1979  || Incidental  ||  
  | [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/Zodiac_%28film%29 ''Zodiac'']  || David Fincher  || 2007  || Incidental  ||  
  | [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 to look for film footage that might contain evidence of the murders.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club ''Fight Club'']  || David Fincher  || 1999  || Incidental  ||  
  | [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://www.reelparadise.com/ ''Reel Paradise'']  || Steve James  || 2005  || Incidental  ||  
  | [http://www.reelparadise.com/ ''Reel Paradise'']  || Steve James  || 2005  || Incidental  ||  
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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.
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