Search Results for: Projectionist

[…]e working on back projection at that time, because you remember the trainsequence in The Lady Vanishes, and back projection became very important. Theprojectionist there was Alf Davis; and I think we did more work between he and I toprogress back projection in that period. We built this interesting […]

[…] some didn't join but some did. And then there was a thing between the ETU and NATKE, the two unions - that the ETU wanted to have all ETU members as projectionists throughout the country. It was easy enough to organise, if they could have got them, because there were two big groups. The Elstree gro[…]

[…]p;more of Zoltan and Vincent but Alex was very much ?? ?? and everybody was very much on their toes. I've never seen anything quite so amazing as the projectionist.  Because the projectionist in the theatre where he used to view the rushes.  If they wanted to see the film again t[…]

[…]said how you came to be.have joined the ACT.Frances Cockburn  13:04  Oh, well. This was a Cleveland Hall. Yes. And Mickey Jay was the chief projectionist. And he is a great buddy of mine. I admired him enormously. And he said, Look, why don't you join the AC T. And I had no idea what the A[…]

[…]own Speaker  1:54:24  single the public thought everything was technical. Yeah, all the rubbish was technical. We were actually sending our projectionist out round the cinemas to light that, to line up the lights on the projectors for them, West End and all well. Do you know this went on r[…]

[…] work - I used to hump cans of films up and down Wardour St to a chap called Wally Dahlberg [?] who in later life I met at Pinewood when he was chief projectionist. I did all these things as well as assisting the projectionist and helping in the film labs, R.E. Strange's film labs - Percy Anthony an[…]

[…] oral history project exploring the working lives of London’s film projectionists. This project was supposed to start in Nov ember […]