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Richard C. Wolfe
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There was a film made back around the late 60s or early 70s about a young man who was a projectionist. I think it took place in England. The story had to do with the fact that he got married and was unable to consummate the marriage. Several months went by and he still hadn't done it...maybe the theatre he worked at should have shown X rated films? Anyway I can't remember what it was called. Does anyone else remember it?

There was a great little mini movie made for cable TV by Turtleback Productions several years ago for the A & E cable network called "The Royale" It was about the goings on in a small town theatre back around 1949. It had one of the best booth sets that I've ever seen in a film. Motiograph projectors were used. All the little details of the booth down to tools, supplies etc. along with the sink, mirror...you name it, it was all there. There were two mistakes though...it was 1949 and there were a pair of adjustable scope lenses on a shelf in the background. For you young ones...remember scope didn't come about until 1953. They also used a 35mm sound editor to preview a film in the booth. I have never seen that in any of the over 1000 old single screen theatres that I have been in.

If you ever have a chance to see that film I highly recommend it as it really shows what it was like to run a single screen theatre back before TV arrived, and also what the theatre meant to the people of the community.

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Phil Hill
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Anyone interested in film/projection and saw the 50's teenexploit film "The Blob" will never forget the movie theater scene. The way it was filmed and cut together made everyone in the theater look back at the booth when (in the movie) the film burns in the gate...just to make sure it was in the movie. It still gives me the creeps watching the blob squeeze through the ventilation grill in the booth.... WHEW!

>>> Phil

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Paul Mayer
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How about "The Bad and the Beautiful" with some scenes that take place both in a studio screening room booth and in a regular theater booth during a sneak screening.

And how about "Come See the Paradise" with Dennis Quaid as a defrocked New York projectionist who moves to LA (circa 1940) and takes both a room and a job in a Little Tokyo movie house (lives in the booth!).

*** Spoiler ***


Quaid's best line comes during his job interview when he's told that the previous projectionist, a Japanese immigrant, had committed suicide. Quaid's response:
"What'd he do, miss a changeover?"


Paul

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George Roher
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East Is East has a brief scene in a projection booth, where the theatre owner makes the projectionists stop the film that's running and put on a different one.

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Gordon McLeod
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1941 has a scene in the booth ( funny they have COrelites and penthouses about 15 years to early)
There are 2 columbo movies that the murderer uses a change over as a alibi
See Brad changeovers have advantages over platters

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Aaron Sisemore
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'Desparately Seeking Susan": Aidan Quinn plays an arthouse projectionist.

'Drive-In': Gratuitous projection booth scenes in the opening credits...

The music video for Bob Seger's 'Night Moves' has him spending most of the time in a drive-in projection booth...

Even porn has its share: 'Passion Pit' features a couple of loops shot in a booth thats in Film-Tech's Pic Warehouse

Aaron

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Leo Enticknap
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'Sherlock Junior' - Buster Keaton stars as a projectionist; 'Clash by Night' (1950s melodrama, notable because Marilyn Monroe made her screen debut in a supporting role, directed by Fritz Lang) - has a homicidal maniac projectionist, with a murder taking place in the box.

There's also a British Hitchcock film from the '30s - can't for the life of me remember which one, can anyone help? - which is set mainly in a small independent cinema in south London. One of the suspense scenes shows a small boy carrying a transit case full of film through the suburban streets (he is not allowed on a bus because the film is nitrate).

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Rachel Kovacs
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You know, I saw one of those Columbo movies a couple of years ago (I've only been working in the booth for a little over a month), and I couldn't stop spotting cue dots afterwards. But when I mentioned them to friends, they'd ask if I'd seen Fight Club (which I didn't see until two weeks ago)...I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who'd seen that Columbo episode!

Good to know I'm not completely crazy.

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Gordon McLeod
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There was another film from the UK with I think Haley Mills called the family jewels that had booth scenes

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Evans A Criswell
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Didn't "Dirty Work" have a scene where the two guys get a job working the booth in a theatre so they can screw up a movie being shown to some important person?

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Aaron Sisemore
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Yep.... running 6000' reels on a single Pro-35...

"Men In Black...who like to have sex with other men"

It was a special screening for the circuit's top brass...

I think I had mentioned this one somewhere before on film-tech.

Aaron


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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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quote:
Anyone interested in film/projection and saw the 50's teenexploit film "The Blob" will never forget the movie theater scene.

Yes, it had a Simplex E system.

Gordon, wasn't "The Family Jewels" a Jerry Lewis picture?

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Better Projection Pays!

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Joe Odenthal
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Omega Man.. love the scene where Charlton Heston trims a Peerless MagnaArc with the door open..

Comming up roses.. Welsh in English.. Projectionist and consessionist try to keep the theatre in a dying Welsh mining town open


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Thomas Hauerslev
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Remember "Silent Movie"? The projection room is staffed by a very near sighted projectionist and Marty Feldman as the upper reel.

Last Friday on the "Disney Sjov" (No, it IS SJOV!) my kids saw Cruella de Ville trying to run a cinema.

And finally, there is a Danish short film (from the early 80s) about a cinema (In Tølløse I believe) where the whole plot is centered around a young boy who's much more interested in dating girls, than running his fathers projectors.

All the best, Thomas


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Dick Vaughan
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Richard/Gord

The film about non consummation of marriage with Hayley Mills was The Family Way 1966 .

A possible redeeming feature being a soundtrack Paul McCartney.

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