List of projection and projectionists in film

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Title	Director	Year	Type	Notes
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.
Sherlock,Jr.	Buster Keaton	1924	Featured	Buster Keaton as a projectionist who falls asleep on the job and enters the frame himself...
The Projectionist	Harry Hurwitz	1971	Featured
Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	1988	Featured
The Smallest Show on Earth	Basil Dearden	1957	Featured	Peter Sellers as a drunk (yet committed!) projectionist working a theater fighting to stay open.
Inglorious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	2009	Featured
Goodbye,Dragon Inn	Tsai Ming-liang	2003	Featured
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 here
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.
Gremlins	Joe Dante	1984	Incidental	The gremlins gather in a movie theater to watch Snow White. Chaos ensues!
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.
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.
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.
Reel Paradise	Steve James	2005	Incidental
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.
The Spirit of the Beehive	Víctor Erice	1973	Incidental	A traveling cinema comes to a Spanish village and screens Frankenstein
John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns	John Carpenter	2005	Featured	A film collector (and projectionist) dies a gory projector-related death!
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.
A Useful Life	Federico Veiroj	2010	Featured
Maurice	Patrick Brice	2010	Featured	Short documentary on a Paris porno projectionist.
Masculin Féminin	Jean-Luc Godard	1966	Incidental	Jean-Pierre Leaud yells at the projectionist for messing up the aspect ratio!
She Was An Acrobat's Daughter	Friz Feleng	1937	Incidental	A duck projectionist has some technical issues.
Stella Days	Thaddeus O'Sullivan	2011	Featured	An Irish priest starts a community cinema and feels conflicted.
Targets	Peter Bogdanovich	1968	Incidental	A drive-in movie theater projectionist is shot by a sniper through the projection port!
Bulletproof Monk	Paul Hunter	2003	Featured
Hellzapoppin'	H. C. Potter	1941	Incidental
Clash By Night	Fritz Lang	1951
Luke's Movie Muddle	Hal Roach	1916