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I so deeply miss celluloid projected in a movie theater. 2012 was a real bummer.

For my sins, I was Chief Projectionist at an enormous drive-in in South Africa in the early seventies, and after that at several 'four-wallers', as we used to call them, in Johannesburg and Cape Town for many years. TV came very late to South Africa, and from the mid-70s drive-ins began to close under the impact of it. At the drive-in I had Philips FP7s with Ashcraft Super-Cinex arcs, which were the only things that could deal with that kind of throw. At the other theatres, Simplexes, Bauer B11, B14, U2, U3 and U4. I miss it; I kid you not.

Ps film is better

It wasn't positive for me losing my job and my union

I used to be a union projectionist for 20 years I miss it a lot.😢

I used to watch movies at the school ground as a temporary theater when I was a primary school kid in 1960s. Nowadays it never happens, but it was nice memory in my young age. It’s really sad to see missing those projectionists.

I worked as projectionist at a drive in in college. One night I was sitting on an old couch we had at the back of the room where we could still keep an eye on the screen. Looked around and a curl of smoke was coming out of the back room where the motor/generator that made the DC for the carbon arcs was mounted! Things got a little exciting after that and the movie ended early. But it was about 11:30 at night in the drive in. Most of the kids in the cars were too busy making out or smoking to even notice!

Oi , muito bom o documentário , cinema com película foi muito bom um grande sonho dar vida na tela através das películas ,imagem, cor , quase natural ! O cinema digital é uma tv gigante , não tem mesma essência , sem falar de milhares de desempregados projecionistas e o perigo atual de não ter um projecionista em caso princípio de incêndio , quando ver já era , como já conheceu na Europa , tive dois cinemas , em Canoas , Rio Grande do Sul Brasil . Carlos Ricardo Stepien !

Oi , muito bom o documentário , cinema com película foi muito bom um grande sonho dar vida na tela através das películas ,imagem, cor , quase natural ! O cinema digital é uma tv gigante , não tem mesma essência , sem falar de milhares de desempregados projecionistas e o perigo atual de não ter um projecionista em caso princípio de incêndio , quando ver já era , como já conheceu na Europa , tive dois cinemas , em Canoas , Rio Grande do Sul Brasil . Carlos Ricardo Stepien !

New 2024 goal.... watch 5 movies from this list!

This is so sad. :( All you women out there better start behaving cause you could be replaced by a digital sex-bot too!

Great video and thank you for putting it together.

He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others.

I AM AN PROJECTIONIST IN INDIA IN TAMIZ NADU . I VERY VERY LIKE FATHER AND INVENTIONER MR .THOMAS AALWA EDISON. I VERY VERY LIKE THE PROJECTIONIST JOB BUT I AM VERY VERY VERY SAD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR. SIVAKUMAR PROJECTIONIST IN TAMIZ NADU.600097.

Very interesting, but the music is too loud, avoiding to understand perfectly what the people say!

And Digital ended the Projectionist's nightmare: Receiving a 4 reel print with it's heads and tails detached and missing. Sure you could figure out which were the first and last reels, but the two in the middle? It happened to me when we got a foreign film through Miramax. Well, there was a 50/50 chance of getting reels 2 and 3 in the right order. After the first showing we asked the audience what they though of the movie. Most of the audience was confused, so we switched reel 2 and 3 and again asked the audience what they thought of the film. Now everyone was confused. Turned out there was a missing reel, as discovered when the film was released on VHS with a running time 18 minutes longer that what we showed in the cinema....

Only colorists are happy about films going down.

Enlightening it is.

Video killed the radio star, TV killed the theatre performances, digital kills the film projectors.

Digital picture quality is like tv serial pic...not good digital

Projector film picture is much better and glamour...i dont like digital...it destroyed the projector entertainmemt

Projectionists doesn't die, they change over to the next reel.

Techno I spent just under $20,000 for my large basement theater system and all my neighbors and friends that come over they donate money I've just about paid for my system we all get together socialized enjoy my swimming pool has some free drinks and enjoy movies. Tell you the truth day going theaters are obsolete themselves technology did it all.

I was a Projectionist while attending college in the 1970s. It was a great job and the hours were great, also. This job, like every other that required professional expertise has gone away along with the knowledge and skill associated with it. I was associated with film in 16mm production as well. Then when video had been the medium for corporate media departments, the reaction to me having a film background was as if I were a skunk who lifted its tail. REALLY! Why must people be such media snobs? And these are the very people who stream about being professionals. To quote Oliver Hardy, "Such IGNORANCE!"

This is exactly how They put myself and 90% of my union brothers out to pasture. nothing but corporate greed!

I was a projectionist for 6 years between 1996 and 2001. I worked primarily with VIC5 heads, I loved them, proper projectors were like engines with gears, belts and oils. looked after they never really failed. During my last year I transfered to the printworks in Manchester and used the Imax, unfortunately then we were just showing the typical 40 minute documentary type films/some 3d with the sonics sound setup. I left before full features were shown. I haven't seen a projection room since 2002 but imagine it's very different as regards to moving parts and noise??? I'm not surprised the switch to digital as prints were so expensive. I'm glad I was a part of history in a way. Unfortunately now the projectionist is now probably titled technical supervisor? When I was there they were just experimenting with DLP. It was very glitchy at the time and the resolution was crap in all honesty. We would play the adverts and trailers on 35mm then the cue would trigger the DLP to start but would often screw up. The first film I remember on the DLP was a toy story type animated film. The first live action movie we played on it looked terrible (I can't remember the film title but there were lots of scenes in snowy mountains which was probably best as greys and blacks are terrible in digital. back then anyway. We had a laugh back then, it was the last job I could truly enjoy myself. I reckon I cold still thread that vic5 in 5 seconds with my eyes closed after 20 years :)

Digital projector created lot of unemployment lots of suffering in starvation. 35mm projector is far better than this digital projector I belive

My most fond years were 1963-1968 where I worked in 3 different booths, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk VA, Wheeler Field (Airforce, HI) the the Naval Hospital, Millington Tenn. I saw some good movies, and some real stinkers. Mostly Carbon Arc Lamps but one modern Incadescent lamps. That was on a vittatorie 70 MM projector. Loved it.

Even digital projectors will eventually give way to giant led screens.

The best 25 years of my life as a projection Manager. I miss the flicker and klack.

All you need now is an auditorium full of robots. "Progress" stinks.

Thanks for this,I was a protectionist from 1979 to 1995 at the Cheltenham Odeon.

I first saw The Princess Diaries (2001) at a American Multi-Cinema (AMC) theater in Houston, Texas a few years ago

Anyone remember 70mm.

Unfortunate.

God I miss being a projectionist. Nothing can beat the magical sound of cinema projector starting up then opening the dowser to let the light through the film after the countdown leader. Really starting to miss film projection in everyday cinemas, hopefully laser projection will replace the horrible 2k/ digital junk that replaced film.

film is real cinema,digital is only a big hd tv for home

covid has done cinema in cos I will not pay to watch digital cinema. cinema is like home cinema now only cinema is worse presenation ever now good riddance digital cinemas.

Ex projectionist here - I worked during the day in graphic design/ production and at night as a projectionist ... summed up as digital by day, analog at night ... it seemed like the two would merge soon enough, and they have .. the end of a lovely era.

Sir not digital cinma only 35mm projector

I have some rolls of 35mm here in my collection. I do care

In the 80's I was involved in the production of TV Commercials. Almost 100% were shot on 35mm negative film before being converted via telecine.. I wonder if anyone still does that?

In the 1970's I worked for a company then known as 20th Century Fox (South Africa) / African Consolidated Films (ACF) as a technician, maintaining projection equipment. I met a colleague in Bulawayo who was old enough to remember having to travel around to various cinemas with the very first 'talkies' or sound movies. His job was to temporarily install the equipment to make it possible to project a sound film!

I've ALWAYS wanted to be a traditional projectionist. Its was always hard to get the job, as I tried many time, but with no experience, I never found the job. Too bad too, as I love film!

Platter Houses are the worst for the longevity of a 35mm print! Thankfully, we do NOT allow our prints to be Plattered!

Saving film on film (acetate) will last over 500 years and will out-perform any digital format that has had over 30 format changes in 20 years. Film is not dead! While I can only collect physical media on 4K digital, I support the restoration process and am very critical of the preservation process. Kudos to Criterion, Shout!, Kino Lorber, Vinegar Syndrome, Arrow and many others for keeping and preserving our past.

35mm projectors are disappearing along with movie theaters!!

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Excellent documentary! But I still believe that existence of a physical material will always be there no matter how much the world becomes digital! And that is the reason why the Library of Congress will always try to find and will preserve the original film negatives of any motion picture as a cultural heritage for many generations to come! People forget that digital is not the solution it's just a transition from one technology to another! Whereas the film medium has always remain physical either as 70 or 35 mm across the world!! Just like classical music has survived since from 300 to 400 years! I sincerely hope that would be the case for the film medium as well!

I did enjoy my time as a Union Projectionist of Local 343 IATSE Omaha, Nebraska. Worked Part time while in the USAF 8 years. Full and Part time the other years. 1968 to 2011. After working here, there, and everywhere. Sometimes 12 hr. shifts. Holidays, nights, weekends, whenever some relief person didn't want to work. When Digital took over many jobs, I did not get a Thank You! Screw You! Nothing! Gone in One day! Thanks a lot Marcus Theaters for years of hating Union people like me. Now that the COVID-19 Virus has closed most theaters, Time for a little PAY-BACK! Ha! Ha! Ha!