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[…] - and Frank Sloggett [?], they were the people who were really in charge of the - what shall I say - the mechanical side of that. Alf Davis[?] was a projectionist at Gainsborough, and I think that we'd got, for those days, quite a high standard of back projection. And I always remember a funny thin[…]

[…];22:16  you had one projector, you were able to run air short films or long films with a break,Speaker 3  22:23  that's right. And the projectionist was Joe Hall, who was hired from Jay Frank brockless In Waller Street, fascinating in Water StreetAlan Lawson  22:38  was the […]

[…] - the mechanical side of that. Alf Davis[?] was a projectionist at Gainsborough, and I think that we'd got, for […]

[…]py about it. [OI] Yes.And we had no, we did have some trouble with NATKE at one time, Kelly started giving me stamps to sell to people that were projectionists and all that and ultimately with the result of the tripartite agreement between ETU, NATKE and ACTT, which I was involved in the negoti[…]

[…]ojection room, that was the lot.Roy Fowler: So these were all spare-time jobs really for people?Eddie Dryhurst: Really, yes.Roy Fowler: Including the projectionist?Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah, most of them were moonlighting. Er, I think the projectionists were also moonlighting, yes.Roy Fowler: Were they u[…]

[…]picture was in the middle and they was always half a frame out of synch you see.   And by the time they’d loaded that onto the projector and the projectionist had put that another frame or two frames out of synch, you used to wind up seeing things out of synch right.  And I used to get ver[…]

[…] oral history project exploring the working lives of London’s film projectionists. After 2 - 3 delays due to Covid this […]