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Author Topic: Women relly projectionist? Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 12-05-2007 01:06 PM                    women in projection seems alot more common-place over in the US as to how it is over here in the UK.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2007 03:13 PM                        In the past few years I've always had at least one or two of our concession people trained to thread the projector if I can't get it done for whatever reason. It's always been the boys who want to learn...but last night one of the girls told me she wants to learn. So she'll be the first female to thread our projector in at least 20 years.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-06-2007 08:59 AM                        Our two projectionists are women. Of our seven or eight film threaders and button pushers, two are men.  |  IP: Logged Joyce Martinez Film Handler Posts: 1 From: Arleta, Ca, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 12-09-2007 08:13 PM                     Hello everyone, i am a projectionist and I am also a woman. I love everything about it and apparently management thinks so too as they're gonna promote me to booth manager. So I guess women can be projectionists I take pride in what I do, and my reward is when I start a show and walk into the theatre and I hear clapping as the show is about to start, its great knowing I helped do that.  |  IP: Logged Luci Reeve Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Telluride, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 12-23-2007 04:59 PM                        Everyone has the ability, I think it is more a matter of interest. More guys like working with the machines and are fearless about it. Along the same lines as lady mechanics. If someone likes to work with their hands and figure things out I ask them if they would like to become a projectionist. I've gotten some really good ones that way, male and female.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 12-23-2007 05:41 PM                     It's surely not unusual to dee a woman working as a projectionist. The Kalee brochure for the 34mm 'Cinestage' presentation of 'Around the World in 80 Days' at the Astoria in London is here web page and it shows a woman standing between the two modified Kalee 21 projectors. I don't know if she was actually a projectionist there at the time, or if she was just posed for the picture; does anybody else know? However, presumably it wasn't unheard of to see women in projection rooms at that time, or they wouldn't have put one in the picture.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-27-2007 03:39 AM                        There were loads of them during the war, replacing male counterparts who were called up. At a family wedding a few years ago I got talking to a lady in her 80s who had worked as a projectionist in a cinema in Swindon, and who (along with many of her colleagues) was made redundant in 1946 when all the soldiers were demobbed and wanted their jobs back. This caused quite a bit of tension, and not just in the cinema industry, as women who had gained a previously unknown amount of social and financial independence by going out to work (as portrayed, for example, in Millions Like Us), were effectively expected to disappear back into the kitchen. I later had a look at some of the trade papers covering this period during a free afternoon in the BFI library. There are several articles and editorials in The Cine-Technician (house magazine of the trade union that covered projectionists at the time, the ACT) from around the middle of 1945 to early 1947 which cover the issue of women projectionists. The ACT's president, George Elvin, was a staunch communist (or at least he became one after failing to win a parliamentary seat for Labour in the 1945 election) who seems to have been torn between wanting to promote equality on the one hand and being anxious to reintegrate the men coming back from national service on the other. I'd be interested to know how many wartime women projectionists stayed in the profession long-term.  |  IP: Logged Raymond Christie Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Guymon, Ok Registered: Nov 2006 posted 01-04-2008 09:43 PM                        Our head projectionist is a female and the person training under her is a female.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-14-2008 04:43 AM                        Here's one.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-14-2008 06:21 AM                     Look at the projection rake at that place!  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-14-2008 06:33 AM                     I have 6 female projectionist that work for me. At my old theatre when I left I had 3.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-14-2008 06:55 AM                     quote: Leo Enticknap Here's one. Off topic, but did you see the angle on those projectors?? This must be one of those huge auditoriums with the booth waaaaayyy at the top. I'd sure love to get a look at that theater!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-14-2008 07:59 AM                        Agreed - there must have been an horrific keystone on that picture, even if it was masked by a well-cut aperture plate. The place closed in 1969 and was demolished in 1974 - sorry! Info on the cinemas of Bishop Auckland. The cinema shown in the MR clip was originally the Hippodrome.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-14-2008 08:43 AM                     I've just had another look; she's got one of the National Coal Board 'Review' films. I used to have quite a few of those, mainly on 16mm, but a couple on 35mm. The lamps look a bit like late Kalee Vulcans, when the old round top 'wagon' shape became more angular.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-14-2008 09:46 AM                        That film is a clip from a 'Mining Review', from a 16mm print bought from a junk shop in Stockton for £3. I shouldn't really have YouTubed that clip from a copyright standpoint (if the copyright owner objects I'll have to pull it), but a friend wanted to see it and that way was quicker than sending a DVD to Canada.  |  IP: Logged

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