https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7f764dea3fbd12b8fbfd63d2fb74acf6.mp3 8d41df6ba37e0c57f6af53539c019228 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 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.) PT00H01M31S 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. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound They didn't have women until after the November blitz and then they started calling the men up. They asked some of us women whether we would like to try it and see if we liked it and much to their surprise or disgust, they never did tell me which, I turned out to be very good at it. You couldn't take it up you had to be picked. If you'd got nothing between your two ears like some of the usherettes hadn't I mean to say they wouldn't have been able to do anything. I was shown how to do it and within twelve months I had to be sent out on relief to help out because they were so short of staff, well I was doing chief's job but I wasn't getting chief's wages for it. Within six months I had second's wages because I turned out to be very successful. And then within the twelve months that I had done all this relief work I got the Manager to make an appointment with him and he said he would be along to see me, and he came and he asked me what I wanted and I said "Let's put it this way, for the last five years I've been doing chief's work for second's pay and I've done it all successfully haven't I?" and he said "Yes, what do you want?" I said "Don't you think I should have chief's wages?" He said, "But aren't you getting them?" I said "No I'm not!" he said "Well you are from now on my dear" and that's how I got the rise. Well of course it made a heck of a difference to my wages naturally. I was the only one that stayed all the time with them. 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 Becoming a projectionist (Florence Barton) Subject The topic of the resource projectionettes Description An account of the resource Projectionist Florence Barton describes being recruited as a 'projectionette' during the Second World War after the male projectionists were called up. 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 1940s ||||osm Coventry 1940s training wartime women projectionists https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/989e8255fd38982a257d0c3900d8663b.mp3 9e9f45ec4934501009157b00eb3f3c3c 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 Neil Thompson Date of Interview 2014-11-11 Location The location of the interview Gateshead Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Well, when I started there was no formal training, so you trained on the job. A lot of places, I was told, you went into the projection room and you weren’t allowed to touch film, all you did was sweep the floor. But actually what happened with me, I think the chief took me under his wing ‘cause he knew I was so interested and wanted to get to know all the equipment. I think within a week I was lacing up. But, of course, he kept an eye on me like. And he showed me how to rewind films, ‘cause a lot of people just put the film on the rewinder, take it across and just rewinding it and just look elsewhere, you know. But he actually said you need to check it as you rewind it. And you don’t need to go very fast, just check it because you could come across a split perforation or a nick, ‘cause if it went through the machine like that it will probably tear. Because in those days we used triacetate which was easy broken so you had to check the film as you went through. 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.) PT00H00M51S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Queens Theatre, Northumberland Place, Newcastle upon Tyne 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 and learning how to check prints (Neil Thompson) Subject The topic of the resource training Description An account of the resource Projectionist Neil Thompson describes the process of learning how to work as a projectionist including the importance of checking film prints when rewinding. 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 Neil Thompson 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 2015-12-29 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Neil Thompson Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/26353 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 1974-1980 POINT(-179197.65532541 7357428.9321082)|16|-179046.5727617|7357500.0879649|osm Queens Theatre, Northumberland Place, Newcastle upon Tyne chief projectionist film damage Neil Thompson North-East England preparing the print presentation and showmanship training https://projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/063178d9b8cdc6a0e111884a474db34f.mp3 17dbe89914ad19db63f7be92b840213c 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 Ah, that's another job I used to have to do when I was a lad, take the news to the Clifton, wait while they showed it and bring it back. Because one newsreel was used between two cinemas and I used to have to go over on a bike to the Clifton, wait there while they showed it then bring it back to the Regal. When there was the Grand National, or the Derby, or the FA football final we used to have to go to Elmdon Airport which is now Birmingham Airport and collect the snippet of the news to put in the newsreel for the Sunday night. They used to print them all and everybody used to have to go to the airport and collect it and add it into the news so that you showed it on the Sunday after the Saturday. Every, every sporting event they used to do that. 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.) PT00H00M27S 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 Clifton, 2 Spencer Street, Leamington Spa 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 Transporting newsreels (Phil Fawke) Subject The topic of the resource local cinemas newsreel film transportation rewind boy routine Leamington Spa Description An account of the resource Projectionist and cinema manager Phil Fawke describes taking newsreel films between local cinemas in Leamington Spa and picking up news footage of major sporting events from Birmingham airport. 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/37473 http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/5886 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 1940-1960 POINT(-171138.923321 6852810.2768395)|14|-170628.9450230|6852940.6452672|osm Regal/Vue, Portland Place, Leamington Spa POINT(-170803.01841158 6851899.386701365)|15|-171090.5530140|6852331.4817138|osm Clifton, 2 Spencer Street, Leamington Spa King's Norton Cinema, The Green, King's Norton, Birmingham 1940s Phil Fawke training 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/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/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/a3374308507e3d471214ac89c0c08670.mp3 812e4f38b342f0f7ce3ed8f194c1cfb6 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 There was no formal training at all. Not at all. I literally learned lacing up by standing behind projectionists and watching them. And then I was allowed to do it myself. But where we extolled in my opinion was, we were taught showmanship. How to put a film on the screen. One of Frank Saunders’s … one of the things he drummed into me from the very first day I met him, I think maybe the second day, we stood at the back of the auditorium in the morning and the screen was open. The tabs were open, the skirtings were open. And he said, “Mike,” he said, “you see that down there? It’s the screen,” he said, “and I never want to see that again.” And I sort of looked at him, gone off, and I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “That screen there,” he said, “when the tabs open it’s the punters’ window on the world. They don’t want to see a screen, they want to see a picture on the screen and lose themselves in their imagination.” He said, “That's the job that we do. If you show them the screen, they lose the imagination, it becomes a picture on a screen instead of a picture in its own right.” He said, “I never, ever want to see you open those curtains on a blank screen.” And I only ever done it once and he sent me home. Literally, I thought I’d had the sack. Said, “You don’t do that in my theatre, you go home now and think about it”. Remember in those days visiting the cinema was a night out. So if you could extend the night out for the enjoyment of the audience, that's what showmanship is all about. If people can come out and they’ve been to Brazil and they’ve been to London and they’ve been to Rome and they’ve enjoyed the experience you feel good. You really do feel good. It’s a strange thing. When I … for a short time I was trainee manager, assistant manager, and I used to stand at the back of the audience at night when they were coming out, as the cur… the tabs closed, and stand at the back of the audience and it was good to feel how they felt. ‘Cause it would emanate from them. And you could tell that an audience had been entertained, you could feel it. And at that … it made you feel good, that you knew the performance had been a success. It’s a little like … and it comes from the stage days, you know, you’re only happy with a stage production if the whole production has gone right. We used to feel the same about the cinema. It had to run right, it had to give people entertainment. It had to feel as though they moved into a magic kingdom. That’s what cinema was all about. It should still be all about but it’s not unfortunately. But that's the showmanship, you just felt satisfaction with the job. A lot of cinemas didn’t bother, you had no showmanship in a lot of the suburban cinemas, would be lights out, screen open. And that was it. And there was an awful lot of that going on. An awful lot. They used to make us feel a little sick, you know, seeing the way we projected film and seeing the way somebody else, oh, dear me. Really terrible, really terrible and I mean, I, I went not long, not long before I got married, I went as a chief operator to the Capital Cinema in Blackwood. And it was run on a shoestring, literally, absolutely literally. Only two operators there one working, one not working. Simple as that. So you had to do everything including cleaning the toilets, literally. And it was awful, awful. If you film, with the footlights on, the guy that ran the place used to play hell with us. “Do you think I can afford to pay for electricity to have lights on here?” you know, and that's how suburban cinemas were run. It was scandalous really. 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.) PT00H03M43S 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 Capitol Cinema, 8 Hall Street, Blackwood 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 Presentation, training and distinction between urban and suburban cinemas (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource presentation and showmanship Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams provides an overview of presentation and showmanship in cinemas. He outlines how he was trained by the chief to uphold particular aesthetic standards and the impact that this has on the experience of the audience. 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 http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/28108 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(-353449.59605573 6707026.7623776)|15|-353451.9847129|6706800.2131776|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff POINT(-353447.20739853 6707019.3724694)|POINT(-355503.84119059 6740156.8396557)|15|-355506.2298477|6739858.6307416|osm Capitol Cinema, 8 Hall Street, Blackwood 1950s 1960s audiences chief projectionist Mike Williams presentation and showmanship training Wales 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