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Title A name given to the resource Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book images Description An account of the resource Items selected from scrap books collected and owned by Joan and Bill Pearson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Te University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images owned by Joan and Bill Pearson, licensed for use to The Projection Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Scrap book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1951-1989 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projection Team - A.B.C. Aston Cinema, Birmingham Subject The topic of the resource projection box Description An account of the resource Members of the projection team - including Joan Pearson and D. Neale (chief) - in the projection box of the Aston Cinema, Birmingham in 1968. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap books Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 1968 1960s Joan and Bill Pearson Midlands projection box team relations women projectionists https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/67ca081708dbd99731284ef624626ed6.jpg 892afaab5940ef8f8d8ce8f6443bb4fe https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8ea458d05215d955dfb8402b838d78a0.jpg 301663594737ed860852f88124079f00 https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0d915a29b8087c752a232bcce61a613b.jpg dc4852aaf148fbd543b5c25a23219041 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book images Description An account of the resource Items selected from scrap books collected and owned by Joan and Bill Pearson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Te University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images owned by Joan and Bill Pearson, licensed for use to The Projection Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Scrap book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1951-1989 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionist Efficiency Competition 1963 Description An account of the resource A letter from the district manager of the A.B.C. cinema chain congratulating the team from the Robin Hood Cinema, Birmingham (lead by Bill Pearson) for winning the Projectionist Efficiency Competition, 1963. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 1963 1960s Joan and Bill Pearson Midlands team relations https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cc7382177759b6b1495dba8865665b0e.jpg 60c396a1d86f3d65d16d76ada39983fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book images Description An account of the resource Items selected from scrap books collected and owned by Joan and Bill Pearson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Te University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images owned by Joan and Bill Pearson, licensed for use to The Projection Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Scrap book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1951-1989 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projection team - Bristol Cinema, Birmingham (1962) Subject The topic of the resource projection box Description An account of the resource Photograph of the projection team at the Bristol Cinema, Birmingham in 1962. From left to right: K. Patel, D. Brinkworth, Joan Pearson, D. Thom, K. Jones, J. Fielding. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 1962 ||||osm Birmingham 1960s Joan and Bill Pearson Midlands projection box team relations women projectionists https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/396283d98c9939aa8f1a9552ca46a710.jpg d55d26cd529a36486cc6e919c7227980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book images Description An account of the resource Items selected from scrap books collected and owned by Joan and Bill Pearson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Te University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-09-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Pearson Bill Pearson Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images owned by Joan and Bill Pearson, licensed for use to The Projection Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Scrap book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1951-1989 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projection Team - Royalty Cinema, Birmingham (1954) Subject The topic of the resource projection box Description An account of the resource The photograph of the projection team in the box at the Royalty Cinema, Birmingham in 1954. Bill Pearson appears second from the right (with cat!). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Joan and Bill Pearson's scrap book Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bill Pearson Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 1954 1950s Joan and Bill Pearson Midlands projection box team relations https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/170c783c6c476f340049ffd96d1aaa62.mp3 649df5a4b6dbb4dab4845548bbc28265 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Unknown: H.M.J. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Florence Barton Date of Interview 1985-12-19 Location The location of the interview Unknown Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 1960 it was turned into a bingo hall and because it came quite as a shock to me and I was given quite a few choices of where I'd like to work and in the end I decided to go to Leicester so I went to the Picture House, Leicester. I was only there about three years, I didn't like it because they were what I call lousy projectionists. And the thing that finished it was I came back from being away for three days and they left me on the machines and it kept going wrong and losing the loop. So I opened the top spool box and stopped the machine, it was badly damaged and it had been and it wasn't done by me because it was up there, for me it would have to be down the bottom, they didn't realise, they hadn't enough brains to realise all that. Anyway I got on the phone and the Manager was quite short and sharp, I said "Look, when you've finished throwing your weight about remember I’m in charge in this projection room now I want a new copy here before the evening show!" Because this was in the afternoon ''Never mind about what's the matter, I want it and if you don't I'll go over your head to London!" so he did that and he came up to me and he asked what was the matter and I showed him and of course he was in on it. They wanted me out, the Manager, the so-called second chief and the doorman I think, any rate there was three of them and what they tried to do was nobody's business. Well H.C. came he was the area engineer and he said to me "I'll see you first Bart." so I went into one of our rooms up in the projection suite and he listened to me and I said "You know damn well I didn't do it" and he said "I know that my dear but I've got to question you the same as everybody else'. So he had the other two in separately of course and he came back and he sent for me again and he said "Who do you think did it?" I said "Well I'll tell you H.C.," I said "Well as far as I'm concerned they're all guilty from what I can gather they've made a right muck-up of it". So those three got the sack. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H02M28S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Additional Information Clip (c) Coventry History Centre. Used with permission. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sabotage (Florence Barton) Subject The topic of the resource sabotage Description An account of the resource Projectionist Florence Barton describes an incident in Leicester where a deliberate act of sabotage was carried out in order to try and sack her. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Coventry History Centre Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Florence Barton Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-20 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Coventry History Centre Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 1960s ||||osm Leicester 1960s Midlands team relations women projectionists https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/924fa64dd028e6c99124f14024cd6cbb.mp3 2694c21e9d14a9c5198e0301f7ee8960 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Phil Fawke Date of Interview 2014-12-04 Location The location of the interview Birmingham Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound I started at the Regal, Leamington Spa as a fifth projectionist, believe it or not. And we weren’t allowed to touch a machine. We weren’t allowed to do much really except clean up and make tea for the chief projectionist. And we used to have to stand at the back of the box which we called it then, not a projection room, it used to be a box, and watch the other people and then you were allowed to take a spool out of the bottom and take it into the rewind room. Then you were eventually told how to rewind it and you had to be very slow, hold your finger on the film which burnt you, I can tell you. Then you burnt it and you had to check every joint, every V cut, everything. And then eventually in about 1942 I was allowed to take my first change-over. Because in those days the film used to come in ten minute reels and it was joined on to make 20 minute reels, and each 20 minute reels went on to a projector and then you had a dot to start the motor and another dot to change over. And you had blank film which ran through the other projector while it was on. So you had to… and first film was called My Gal Sal that I made a change-over on. And I did it right, thank goodness for that. It had to be perfect. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M44S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa Regal, 511 Foleshill Road, Coventry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Training (Phil Fawke) Subject The topic of the resource training Description An account of the resource Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes the process of training 'on the job'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Phil Fawke Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Phil Fawke Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24797 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1940-1942 POINT(-171164.00422091 6852816.4350961)|14|-170650.4429372|6853550.1260638|osm Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa POINT(-166866.2128733 6878013.5021133)|14|-167215.5539791|6876592.9415900|osm Regal, 511 Foleshill Road, Coventry 1940s Phil Fawke preparing the print running the show team relations training https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/50777345a7c141a801281853dab828ba.mp3 365249b8f21bfbecec3d4e69a7177b66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Phil Fawke Date of Interview 2014-12-04 Location The location of the interview Birmingham Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The chief, he only used to show the newsreel, then he used to disappear into the rest room and the second and the third projectionist used to carry on the rest of the show and he never did anything then ‘til the next time. That’s all he did. But he did make the film up. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M22S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa Regal, 511 Foleshill Road, Coventry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Chief (Phil Fawke) Subject The topic of the resource team relations Description An account of the resource Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes the role of the chief projectionist. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Phil Fawke Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Phil Fawke Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24797 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1940-1942 POINT(-171140.11764955 6852821.2124103)|14|-170650.4429372|6852976.8483516|osm Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa POINT(-166867.40720188 6878012.3077847)|14|-167211.9709934|6876640.7147326|osm Regal, 511 Foleshill Road, Coventry 1940s Phil Fawke team relations https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4d2c9e31142dae9c2bcd54dd108afcc2.mp3 57db7eab1d4f717a4258af3be01be626 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Phil Fawke Date of Interview 2014-12-04 Location The location of the interview Birmingham Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The non-sync room where you played records had to be in a different… every room had to be separate in those days. The non-sync room was a separate room. And it had a little porthole in it that you could sort of look out into the, into the project… because you weren’t allowed into the theatre in those days. Only the chief was the only one who could look out. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M25S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa Regal, 511 Foleshill Road, Coventry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Separate rooms in the box (Phil Fawke) Subject The topic of the resource cinema buildings Description An account of the resource Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes the separation of spaces in cinema projection rooms. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Phil Fawke Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Phil Fawke Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24797 http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/48440 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1940-1960s POINT(-171144.89496382 6852835.5443532)|14|-170726.8799655|6853005.5122373|osm Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa POINT(-166868.60153043 6878013.5021132)|14|-167185.6957649|6876582.1926328|osm Regal, 511 Foleshill Road, Coventry 1940s 1950s Midlands Phil Fawke preparing the print projection box team relations https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a3971b67f3156275fdb6766990faf5f1.mp3 5b7975c4bb8bb27dfe1bce65fafd94d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Phil Fawke Date of Interview 2014-12-04 Location The location of the interview Birmingham Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound I knew it was coming. It had been experimented on two or three times, but they hadn’t got it completely perfect though. But when it was perfected it did come rather quick. I must agree and the changeovers in the cinemas was very, very quick really when you think of it. I don’t think there's a multiplex in Birmingham now that could show a 35mm print. About 90% is digital now. Put a lot of people out of work really. When you think that when I started there was five projectionists for one theatre, and then there used to be three projectionists for a multiplex of about 12 screens. And now it’s one technician for a multiplex. It’s changed, hasn’t it? I used to be scared. I was really scared stiff at the MAC when I was left with the digital. I think because a lot of the controls are very small and you’re used to, sort of, dealing with a big thing and then you’re suddenly dealing with a panel this big that controls everything. I think it just sort of distracts you in a way when you’ve been for years and years looking at all this big equipment and big knobs and all that sort of thing. I got through it all right but it used to scare me a bit, I must agree, for fear I’d press the wrong buttons or something. And I never. In all fairness I thought digital, load of bunkum, you know. I thought that the quality would never, ever be as good. But I must agree, I've seen it and I've got to agree it’s not just good, it’s better. Plus the fact you don’t get all the scratches. I mean some of the Sunday stuff we used to get there was so many joints in. Well it was an insult to charge people to watch it really. Scratched and all joints and flashing all over the place. Really, really terrible. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H02M30S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema mac (Midlands Arts Centre), Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arrival of digital (Phil Fawke) Subject The topic of the resource digital projection Description An account of the resource Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes his experience of the arrival of digital projection, the changes in the number of projectionists over time, getting used to using the digital projector and the benefits of digital on picture quality. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Phil Fawke Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Phil Fawke Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24157 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2000- POINT(-211921.66089113 6882433.6561547)|14|-211549.0303783|6883772.6850919|osm mac (Midlands Arts Centre), Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s digital projection film damage Midlands multiplexes Phil Fawke presentation and showmanship team relations working conditions https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/de8b3a1514d5ab8fbcf16214289d3a3c.mp3 5a18a7308469ce74f46082d21439bf05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mick Corfield Date of Interview 2015-08-03 Location The location of the interview Coventry Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Projectionists are a strange breed. I mean, when I was a relief projectionist if the projectionist wanted a genuine day off I would be treated like royalty. There would be tea, coffee, even sandwiches being left, magazines of various descriptions to help me through my 14 hour day, the TV plugged in ready. Absolutely, you know what I mean, seriously looked after. If the projectionist wanted to get time and a half and do it himself, I have been to more than a few cinemas where the switch room has been hidden by fire extinguishers so I couldn’t turn any of the power on, so then they’d have to ring this fella and then I would look an idiot. Sour milk. And then when you delve into it a little bit more you find out that actually it was his seventh day and he was on double time or whatever. It’s not my choice to do this, you know, they’ve said, “You’ve got to have a day off.” If you were wanted, perfect, if you were not wanted every single thing conceivable that could go wrong would go wrong. And you find that hard to believe but I’m afraid that’s human nature. I’ve been in many a time and films have shut down and thought, “I know what that is.” I’ve know many a time when films won’t start and I know what that is, because a trip’s been moved out. Projectionists aren’t as sweet and everything wasn’t as wonderful as people make out. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M14S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Working as a relief projectionist (Mick Corfield) Subject The topic of the resource working at other cinemas working with other projectionists Description An account of the resource Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes his experiences working as a relief projectionist in a variety of cinemas around the UK. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mick Corfield Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-08 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mick Corfield Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1989- 1990s 2000s Mick Corfield team relations things going wrong working conditions https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/28271c0a0edf899cd600754a25d0d7f0.mp3 37d68d2882dc6e96f54f447a03c34917 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mick Corfield Date of Interview 2015-08-03 Location The location of the interview Coventry Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound What we used to do, we used to open... We used to go... And I’ll talk you through it ‘cos it always makes me laugh. And Jack Spittle who was the senior projectionist at the time, the old projectionist. So we used to laugh because we used to go through this routine, we used to go... It used to be like being on a ship. It used to be “House lights to half, Mr Corfield.” “House lights to half, Mr Spittle.” And we used to take... We had little dials, knobs, that we used to take down, so we used to take the house lights to half. “Projector turn on.” “Projector turn on.” So we’d turn the projector on. But then with the take up of the film, because the film would sag, because the take up of the 12,000 foot spool wouldn’t take up quick enough. So while you were doing with one hand various things you’d have to hold the film until it took up. If you didn’t it’d snap the film. So the film would still carry on going through the gate but end up on the floor and then you’d have to stop it really quickly, and when you’d try and stop it before you obviously opened the douser, which is obviously what lets the light on the screen, and then you’d see the film. So obviously we’d open the douser, open the shutter and away we’d go, whilst taking the house lights to half. So you’d got your house lights to half, you’d run your projector, you take your spotlights down, which’d be at the front of the screen which’d be shining on the tabs, the curtains, the tabs. So then obviously what you do then is you press button, button, button, dial, dial, dial, and open it all lovely, so it’d open up with the Cannon cinemas ident as all the lights would drop down. This of course making sure the film hasn’t broken and also bringing the sound off so we hadn’t got a bang, ‘cause when a join goes through it bangs. Fading the sound down and fading the sound up. So of course once you’ve done your adverts you have to do the same thing again for your trailers, you’d bring the tabs down. You wouldn’t put your house lights up but you’d bring the tabs down and you’d bring your stage lights up to half, so you’d do that. So it’s called presentation. So we’d do all that and then we’d stop for an ice-cream sale and we’d put a spotlight on and do the ice-cream sale and then we’d start the main feature and away we’d go. So that’s what we’d do. And then we’d have to be down there five minutes from the end. We’d go down periodically and check, we’d stay there and make sure it was in the right ratio, any hair in the gate, anything like that, and you’d have to try and remove it because you couldn’t stop the show – all these little tricks that you learnt over the time. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M53S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Starting a performance (Mick Corfield) Subject The topic of the resource team relations starting a film screening Description An account of the resource Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes the process of starting a performance. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mick Corfield Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-08 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mick Corfield Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1989-1992 POINT(-224249.52035759 6884220.4276746)|12|-218932.3695782|6886417.4883802|osm Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham 1990s 2000s audiences Mick Corfield Midlands preparing the print presentation and showmanship running the show sound and music team relations training https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e33c8f8ce55f6d1205f8f09730cc5d1a.mp3 b38a6048fc8fb013673a409df1cd06d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mick Corfield Date of Interview 2015-08-03 Location The location of the interview Coventry Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound I started in October 1989 as the new boy, and she started on November 1st 1989, so she was the new girl. I remember it well. She wore a brown button-up Cannon overall which wasn’t very fetching, and I walked down to screen number four which was a long, long corridor and I saw her at the bottom of the corridor, and she was new and she said, “Can I have your ticket, please?” And I said, “Oh I’m the projectionist.” And she went, “Oh I’m sorry.” And I said, “Oh don’t worry, I’m new here as well, and up there now making mistakes, trust me.” You know what I mean? The curtains would open and close at the wrong time, lights’d go on, the dowser would be…the film’d be running, everybody heard the sound, there’d be no picture. ‘cause I’d only been doing it for a month. And I have to say, and I don’t mind saying it, I’ll be perfectly honest with you, that I looked in her eyes and I thought that she was the woman for me. And she was. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M59S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meeting wife (Mick Corfield) Subject The topic of the resource meeting wife Description An account of the resource Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes how he met his wife when they were both working in the same cinema. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mick Corfield Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-08 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mick Corfield Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1989 POINT(-224254.29767179 6884225.8954601)|12|-219264.3929197|6887222.6524481|osm Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham 1990s 2000s Mick Corfield team relations https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a985ee6af91404a4f5263f625670e206.mp3 be95233450c3a07f67d11036ef625531 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mick Corfield Date of Interview 2015-08-03 Location The location of the interview Coventry Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound I think it was 1992, we had a Greta Ward automation system put in, which was done on pulse tape and it was a pin board basically with a clock as well that’d tick down and start the shows. So it would start, stop, it would open and close the tabs, the tabs being the curtains, bring the house lights down, bring the footlights down. And of course with automation you lost your presentation, most of your presentation, because what you did, you’d put pulse tape on it and it read the pulse tape. So you’d pin the board for what you wanted it to do: house lights down, tabs open, tabs shut if you wanted to but a lot of people stopped doing that. And then basically put a pulse at the end of the film, as soon as we saw any black, black cast come up at the end of the film we’d pulse it to bring the houselights up to half, then to full and then shut the programme down. So of course if you’ve got four... well you’d have two people on. When you got your Greta Ward automation in there was no need for that because that did it all, so then all of a sudden I was off ill and then came back and found out that two jobs had gone and the only way I could keep mine was if I would be a relief projectionist and be then for be rented out to other cinemas when people were on holiday and things like that. You could see that projectionists’ jobs were being lost through technology. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M09S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Automation (Mick Corfield) Subject The topic of the resource automation job losses Description An account of the resource Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes is experiences of automated projection systems on the work of projectionists. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mick Corfield Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-08 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mick Corfield Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1992- POINT(-224274.60125745955 6884255.06320307)|12|-219453.0968333|6884818.2824292|osm Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham 1990s 2000s automation Mick Corfield Midlands presentation and showmanship running the show team relations working conditions https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4b1566a3b93a5b3348ec8f8de65dd0dc.mp3 e540e4cd3e2337093e6f4f11c595793f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound They had a manager in Merthyr Tydfil who was a nice guy. But rumours had reached head office in Golden Square in London that this man was not what he was supposed to be. He was in fact running the cinema for his own use. He was giving out free tickets everywhere. You could, I mean you’ve seen it in The Smallest Show on Earth but at the Castle Cinema in Merthyr Tydfil you could literally buy a ticket with a pound of butter or a chicken, literally. The man lived off the cinema. He had a unique system where if the district manager was seen getting off the train the station manager used to ring the. And it would take approximately 20 minutes to walk from the cinema to … or from the station to the cinema. For this the station manager used to get two complementaries a week. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M45S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Castle Cinema, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Smallest Show on Earth for real (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource unconventional cinema management Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams describes a Welsh cinema with unconventional entry policies, comparing it so scenes from the comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10210 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-374455.4468883963 6756362.907915154)|14|-375602.0023125|6755153.6502414|osm Castle Cinema, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil 1950s 1960s audiences Mike Williams team relations Wales https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4b9cee5eb9c2c1c668e33137c67061e1.mp3 11e75517f38489bc7570c0d4803471fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound As a rewind boy my job, it was very easy, basically as stated by NATKE, the union, my job as a rewind boy was to start work at ten o’clock in the morning, rewind all the film that had been left over from the night before because projectionists didn’t rewind their own film. It was a rewind boy’s job. So from 7:30 onwards in the evenings the projectionist didn’t rewind his own film, it was left for the rewind boy. So that was my first job in the mornings when I went in at ten o’clock. Then I would have to sweep the box out. Top to bottom, end to end, I would have to sweep that out, this, this meant removing all the heavy rubber mats. My chief had a theory about keeping dust down, you had to soak wads of newspaper in water, wring it out, throw all the wads, pieces of newspaper all around the box, all over the floor, right out as far as the rewind room and then sweep it all up. Being as it was wet newspaper it would keep the dust down. Once you got all that collected and put the mats back down again then it was time to clean the machines. By the time you’d cleaned the machines, set up the arc lamps ready for the show, it would be time for the projectionist to lace the machines up and on with the show. Then I would be a general dog’s body from the time the show started until it was time to go home at eight o’clock at night. I would rewind every reel, as it came off the machine, I’d be taking it out to the rewind room, rewind it, bring the next reel out for the projectionist to lace up. That went on right up until eight o’clock at night. But, now we’ll come to the truth. In actual fact because I loved the cinema so much, I used to go in at eight o’clock in the morning and I used to do everything I was supposed to do by the time the projectionist come in at half past nine. So they would come into a pristine box and pristine machines and I could get on with doing whatever the projectionists were doing be it washing fittings down, rewiring, cleaning fittings wherever, I was one of the team. And my rewind jobs had been … and this was recognised because eventually I’d have no film to rewind when I come in in the morning they would all do their share and rewind the film at night because I suppose Micky, as I was called then, was a nice guy and they done it to help me out, you know. It was that sort of job, I didn’t care what time I went in in the morning, I didn’t care what time I finished at night. Sometimes the chief would say to me at four o’clock, “Go home, Mike, you've done enough for today”. And I’d have an early night. Other times I’d stay there ‘til midnight while they had a press show on ‘cause we used to run press shows in those days. After the show closed you’d show a film for the press. That would go on ‘til one o’clock in the morning. Quite illegally, I wasn’t allowed to be in the theatre at that time of night according to government rules. But I would help them out with the press show. It didn’t matter, the building was more of my life than being at home. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H02M54S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Routine as a rewind boy (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource duties as a rewind boy Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams describes his routine as a rewind boy. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353451.98471289 6707025.9412767)|15|-353535.5877126|6706828.0559623|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s career progression maintenance Mike Williams outside the box preparing the print routine team relations training Wales working conditions https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b34588ad40f3237f048e7e11b963f3c3.mp3 9332d593f9a7dbf5802c27b2971f79f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound We were shown things like how to put the footlights on at the right tempo. Some films you put them up fast, other films you put them up slow. You see we also used to rehearse films, they don’t do that anymore. But sometimes we used to have delivery of films on a Thursday, sometime between Thursday and Sunday that film would be played, only the features, second features didn’t really matter, but the main feature film bearing in mind that we were a first run house, we used to run parallel with the West End. So feature films would have to be run through and the chief or the manager or the senior second would sit in the auditorium and cue them so the sound was all right all the way through. And you’d run by that cue sheet then all through the week. Frank used to consider that a necessity and, again, it worked. No need to change it, you know. It was a good system. And it worked. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M59S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rehearsing films (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource preparing screenings Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams describes the process of rehearsing film to get them ready for screening. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353451.98471283 6707025.9412767)|15|-353425.7094844|6706804.1693910|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s chief projectionist Mike Williams preparing the print presentation and showmanship team relations Wales https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/46594dd03a0c9569686266e9c414701e.mp3 cd323a53934ef6528a37e4e59d1b0b03 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound We used to … you’ll like this, we used to rehearse gramophone music. Note the gramophone, that’s all we had in those days was the non-sync, you know, and on Sunday afternoon we’d go in and Frank Saunders would run through the records we could use that week. We couldn’t use any records that weren’t sympathetic towards the film we were showing. And I brought in a rock n roll because it was rock n roll records in those days, I brought a rock n roll record in one day because we were showing The Tommy Steel Story and I suggested that we play this record and he went absolutely bananas with me. “We don’t play music like that in cinemas! We don’t play vocals in the intermission. Vocals are not on.” And, of course, I don’t know whether it applied to the rest of the country but we weren’t allowed to play music before 5:30 on a Sunday. We used to open the cinema at five o’clock, and had complete silence until 5:30 and then you could put a record on and play. A legal obligation in those days, yeah. Sunday cinema had only just come in, you know, and they’re very chapel around here, you see. And a lot of the chapels came out at 5:30 so it was all right to play music after 5:30 but not before chapel come out. So Sunday afternoons we used to go in, play the music that Frank Saunders thought was applicable and in all fairness it used to work. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353451.98471281 6707026.38915)|15|-353502.1465126|6706814.1718927|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s chief projectionist Mike Williams presentation and showmanship sound and music team relations Wales working conditions https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cf454e828a52010a0895d4c7a7eb77ae.mp3 b04dde7cda45629d0a0ac4f984efa892 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Every other day, you had 24 hours off. So in those 24 hours you could work evenings at suburban cinemas. And I done quite a bit of that around Cardiff, they’re always looking for operators to fit in ‘cause they never have enough staff. ‘Cause they didn’t pay really good wages. But you do it for a giggle for one night, it doesn’t really matter what you got out of it, you know, it was just you were running the show for everyone, bit different. You have free tea and free coffee and perhaps they send you out a bag of chips and a piece of fish ‘cause that’s standard fair for a projectionist. Actually I got … never ate fish and chips in the Olympia. Never, I can never, ever, do you again … I was thinking about this a few weeks ago, we never had fish and chips in the Olympia because there wasn’t a fish and chip shop in the vicinity. So normally it would be sandwiches done by mum. Or if you had a bit of money you go across to Woolworth’s across the road. You’ll like this, our main treat in the Olympia, Frank Saunders used to call me into the … usually on a, on a Friday when he was making up film, he’d call me in and he’d give me some money and he’d say, “Now go and get our lunch for today, Mike.” And I knew what it was ‘cause he’d trained me well, I used to go across the road, down a lane, and there was a dirty old bake house down there. And I used to buy a loaf of hot bread and I’d walk back through the back end of Woolworth’s, you could walk right through Woolworth’s in those days and I’d buy half a pound of butter and tin of Fussell’s milk. Go back to the cinema, in slices the hot bread, spread it with butter and pour Fussell’s condensed milk on it. And that was, that was Frank Saunders and my treat on a Friday. We used to really love it. But it was very … because the hours were so strange, once we started working, or I started working shift work the hours are so strange. Half past nine to half past three doesn’t give you a mealtime really. You go home and you have your dinner at home. Half past three to half past ten, you have breakfast before you leave home, you’re leaving the house by lunchtime so you don’t bother with it, you just go into work and do your shift and come home and have supper when you get home. It’s a very laid back life in actual fact. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H02M13S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview 00:00:00-:00:00:26: Working in suburban cinemas during time off 00:00:26-00:02:13: Mealtimes in cinemas Cinema ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mealtimes (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource mealtimes Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams discusses the impact of working routines on mealtimes. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353447.20739857 6707030.7185913)|15|-353468.7053128|6706761.1735629|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s chief projectionist Mike Williams outside the box routine team relations Wales working conditions https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7abde6fb0945c4a4232a71538b5fbb4e.mp3 32733cff6e89c9f29c0f606588bb02fa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Drinking, as a, as a projectionist there was a pub across the road run by an ex-assistant manager of the Olympia. I used to do all my drinking in there with the usherettes. And then I became a trainee manager and one evening I thought I’ll go across for a pint, just after I started as trainee manager and I'm walking down the foyer and Mr Key, the manager, “Where you going, Michael?” Said, “I'm going across for a pint, Mr Key.” “Right,” he said, “You’re not going to the Taff Vale are you?” I said, “Well, yeah.” “Oh, no,” he said, “You can't go there anymore, you have to go to the club behind.” He said, “Mention my name,” he said, “I'm a member there, they’ll serve you in there.” I said, “Yeah, but … I always go in the Taff there.” He said, “Staff go in there, you can't drink with the staff. You can be friendly with them in the cinema but you can't drink with them outside.” Sort of status quo thing, you know. And I never drank in the Taff ever again after that, shameful really. Shameful. Ah funny, they had funny, funny morals cinema people did, awfully strange. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M02S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hierarchy in the cinema (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource team relations career development Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams describes the impact of promotion on his relationships with other cinema workers. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353442.43008431 6707027.1356053)|15|-353454.3733700|6706743.2586338|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s career progression Mike Williams team relations training Wales https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d9d6ea427cc878e4bd22b3eeb88afd92.mp3 9001e45adffc8999c666198bc6fa5b05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with projectionists Description An account of the resource Interviews with projectionists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound We used to sit and talk, Frank Saunders and I. He was the chief and I was a lowly rewind boy, and he used to tell me about the days he projected silent films with a pianist. Now I feel now, it’s silly really, but I feel I've touched the silent days because I talked to that man ‘cause he talked to me and you knew what he was telling you was the truth. He took me through silent films, he took me through sound on disc on films, he took … He had what he called his treasure chest which was a wooden chest which he used to keep all his mementoes in. And he had so many mementoes of different cinemas that he’d worked in. He knew so much about the cinemas. He was just such an iconic guy, he knew everything about cinema, brilliant man. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M47S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chief (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource chief projectionist Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams describes his relationship with his chief projectionist at the ABC (Olympia) Cardiff, Frank Saunders. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353447.20739858 6707027.1356052)|15|-353497.3691984|6706709.8174341|osm ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s chief projectionist Mike Williams team relations training Wales