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Author Topic: Movies Featuring Projectionists as Characters Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-05-2014 07:03 PM                     Joseph Holmes, the person who took the recently posted (and here on Film-Tech, critically lambasted) photos showing the last days of film projection in New York area, has cobbled up a short comprised of clips of movies that have scenes taking place in a projection booth. He missed a few that I can think of, but there were more than I thought there would be. It's a fun watch and worth twelve minutes out of your future: Projection: 85 Years of the Projection Booth in Movies  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-05-2014 07:49 PM                        Glad to see that Fritz Lang's Clash by Night (IMO one of his most underrated films) got a mention at 6'27" and 8'40". The gremlins' "film done wrong" rendition of Snow White deserved a little more screen time, though. It must have been an expensive nightmare to clear all those clips.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-05-2014 08:30 PM                        Really good job. Also: "Drive In" had booth scenes. maybe also any Spielberg film involving a drive in screen being blown down. Louis  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 01-05-2014 09:21 PM                     quote: Louis Bornwasser "Drive In" had booth scenes. I ran a print of "Drive-In" at a horror film festival a couple of years ago. I don't know if it was done intentionally or not, but in the projection room scene, the reel end alarm (in the movie) started going off at almost the exact same moment as the actual reel-end alarm in my booth, since the scene occurs near the end of the reel. Mabye it was just a coincidence, but if not, it was pretty well done! (Of course if you ran platters, you missed it) ALSO, although not a 'movie'--> I happened to catch an old episode of DRAGNET on TV about a month ago in which the perp turns out to be the relief projectionist at the local theater, the last few minutes of the show take place up in the booth. The TV epsiode was was a re-make of an earlier RADIO VERSION of the same story, and the dialoge script, in which the projectionist describes making a 'switchover' as well as (accurately!)discussing union payroll rules can be heard here: Dragnet- "The Big Quack" > The 'booth scene' starts at 17min into the program. < . . . and I'm sure we're all familiar with the several "Columbo" episodes whose plots involve projection rooms, which have been discussed in earlier message threads.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 01-06-2014 12:29 AM                     "TARGETS"-1968... Karloff's last Screen Appearance. Best Projection Booth Scene yet. You even get to see him thread the Projector,etc. Poor guy ends up getting shot by the Maniac Sniper hidden in the outdoor theater Screen. Peter Bogdanovich Directed....Looked like XL's with Mighty 90 Lamps. Great Cult Flick! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063671/?ref_=nv_sr_1  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 01-07-2014 08:58 PM                     Almost Forgot:Dennis Quaid in "COME SEE THE PARADISE"-1990 Quaid in Los Angeles Little Tokyo 1936-Gets a Projectionist Job at the PARADISE THEATER. Falls in love with the Boss's Daughter... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099291/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_48  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-07-2014 09:39 PM                     Fight Club?  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-07-2014 11:09 PM                     Best not mention the booth scene from Fight Club, people here get pissed. A recent movie not included in the short, but which should have been, is a little scene horror flick called The Vanishing on 7th Street, which stars John Leguizamo as an off-duty AMC projectionist who valiantly tries to save a group of strangers from encroaching evil. The first few scenes take place in what is supposedly an AMC booth in Detroit.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 01-09-2014 01:14 AM                     Fight club was in there at 5:00. I looked for Bulletproof Monk. It is in there according to the credits, but I didn't find it.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-09-2014 02:33 PM                        Yay, it includes the following. Wim Wenders' Im Lauf der Zeit follows a projection tech to cinema projection booths. Night of the Comet  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 01-09-2014 09:35 PM                     "THE INNER CIRCLE" -1991 The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. This was an excellent film.Lots of Projection Booth Footage with TOM HULCE as Ivan Sanchin. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103838/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_12  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-10-2014 10:12 AM                     The Smallest Show on Earth (peter seller as Mr Quill) The Picture Show Man (australia) Matinee The Projectionist Family Way (UK)  |  IP: Logged Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 01-10-2014 03:08 PM                     A true drive-in classic, Drive-In Massacre, featured a rather unflattering portrayal of a projectionist in the booth of the outdoor theatre where much of the story unspooled. With so much of the industry already digital and so many major drive-ins just reflections of memory, even this release seems nostalgic today! Don Brown  |  IP: Logged Christopher Crouch Expert Film Handler Posts: 128 From: Holywood, ca, usa Registered: May 2006 posted 01-10-2014 10:30 PM                  quote: Donald Brown A true drive-in classic, Drive-In Massacre, featured a rather unflattering portrayal of a projectionist in the booth of the outdoor theatre where much of the story unspooled. The ultimate drive-in movie: A killer wielding a full length sword, "hard boiled" detectives going undercover in drag, a drive-in pervert, a manager who greets each customer with a personal insult, topless scene with an actress in a bad wig (which almost falls off), decapitation fx via a mannequin head, a pointless storyline tangent in a warehouse (featuring one of the movie's screenwriters, the late Buck Flowers, chasing his real life daughter), z level production values, and a "the killer is loose at your theatre" ending; all shot by a crew that was better known for their porn output at the time. Unintentionally hilarious fight scene in the film's "grand" finale. Despite the projector being shown in a standard position near the port window and the characters fighting behind the projector, the two combatants somehow manage to cast clear, full body, shadows of their battle on screen, from inside the booth.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 01-11-2014 05:20 PM                        quote: Steve Matz "TARGETS"-1968... Karloff's last Screen Appearance. Best Projection Booth Scene yet. You even get to see him thread the Projector,etc. Poor guy ends up getting shot by the Maniac Sniper hidden in the outdoor theater Screen. Peter Bogdanovich Directed....Looked like XL's with Mighty 90 Lamps. Said projectionist, Byron Betz, was the drive-in's actual projectionist.  |  IP: Logged

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