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Projectionists' Memories
Subject
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Interviews with projectionists
Description
An account of the resource
Interviews with projectionists
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The Projection Project
Publisher
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University of Warwick
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.mp3
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English
Type
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Sound recordings
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Richard Wallace
Interviewee
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Mick Corfield
Date of Interview
2015-08-03
Location
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Coventry
Transcription
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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.
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One-to-one interview
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PT00H01M53S
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320kbps
Cinema
Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
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Title
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Starting a performance (Mick Corfield)
Subject
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team relations
starting a film screening
Description
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Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes the process of starting a performance.
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The Projection Project
Source
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Interview with Mick Corfield
Publisher
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The University of Warwick
Date
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2015-12-08
Contributor
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Richard Wallace
Mick Corfield
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http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934
Format
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.mp3
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English
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Sound recording
interview extract
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1989-1992
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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
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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
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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
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University of Warwick
Format
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.mp3
Language
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English
Type
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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
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Coventry
Transcription
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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.
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PT00H00M59S
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320kbps
Cinema
Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
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Title
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Meeting wife (Mick Corfield)
Subject
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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
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The Projection Project
Source
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Interview with Mick Corfield
Publisher
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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
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Richard Wallace
Mick Corfield
Relation
A related resource
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934
Format
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.mp3
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English
Type
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Sound recording
interview extract
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1989
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Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
1990s
2000s
Mick Corfield
team relations
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Dublin Core
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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
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University of Warwick
Format
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.mp3
Language
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English
Type
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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
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Coventry
Transcription
Any written text transcribed from a sound
I’d wasted my childhood at school and couldn’t be bothered and then ended up working in a factory, and decided that there were two great loves in my life. One was cinema and one was football. So therefore I got a job as a steward at West Bromwich Albion and a job in a cinema. Now, it was really strange, because my Mum had no inclination that I was interested in the cinema at all, and then when I’d got the job at the local cinema as a projectionist I went and told Mum ‘cause I was quite thrilled and Mum burst into tears and I said, “What’s the matter, Mum, it’s a steady job, it’s a...,” you know, “It’s a job, it’s something I was looking forward to doing.” And Mum said, “Well you didn’t know, but your father was a projectionist and that’s how I met him ‘cause I was an usherette.” And I hadn’t had any idea of, of this, you see. So there’s often when you talk to people, people’ll say, “Oh it’s in my blood.” Well clearly it was in my blood but obviously I wasn’t aware of it. So that’s how I got into cinema, just ‘cause I wanted something different, something for a change.
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One-to-one interview
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PT00H01M01S
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320kbps
Cinema
Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
Dublin Core
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Title
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Family connections to cinema (Mick Corfield)
Subject
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career progression
family
Description
An account of the resource
Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes his appointment as a cinema projectionists and finding out that his father used to be a projectionist as well.
Creator
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The Projection Project
Source
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Interview with Mick Corfield
Publisher
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The University of Warwick
Date
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2015-12-08
Contributor
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Richard Wallace
Mick Corfield
Relation
A related resource
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934
Format
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.mp3
Language
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English
Type
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Sound recording
interview extract
Coverage
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1989
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Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
2010s
becoming a projectionist
career progression
Mick Corfield
Midlands