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<em>Kinematograph Weekly </em>/ <em>Ideal Kinema</em>
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trade press scans
Description
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Items relating to projectionists from the trade papers <em>Kinematograph Weekly </em>and its supplement <em>The Ideal Kinema</em>. All items used with permission from Screen International.<em><br /></em>
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<em>Kinematograph Weekly </em>/ <em>The Ideal Kinema</em>
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<em>Kinematograph Weekly</em> / <em>The Ideal Kinema</em>
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The University of Warwick
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2017-10-24
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Screen International
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All items used with permission from Screen International.
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English
Type
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Images
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Title
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Advert: Projectomatic (1956)
Subject
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automated projection
Description
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An advert for a Projectomatic automated projection machine.
Used with permission from Screen International.
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<em>Kinematograph Weekly</em> / The<em> Ideal Kinema</em>
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<em>The Ideal Kinema</em>, 6 December 1956, p. 1
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The University of Warwick
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2017-11-01
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<em>Kinematograph Weekly</em> / The<em> Ideal Kinema</em>
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.jpg
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English
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Image
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1950s
1950s
1960s
automation
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Title
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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
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Sound recordings
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Unknown: H.M.J.
Interviewee
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Florence Barton
Date of Interview
1985-12-19
Location
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Unknown
Transcription
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I was given what they called the 'Projectomatic', Instead of the Gaumont getting them I got them, because most of the men who had it didn't stand by it, they went next door and had a pint or something like that or on the roof and had a cigarette and by the time that they came in there was frantic noises coming from the Manager's office because the film was off the screen. In other words I worked with a lot of men but believe you me those that had got what I call brains I could count on that hand and I went in god knows how many cinemas, and would probably have some fingers left. That's why I wasn't at all popular because I was so good at it.
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320kbps
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Clip (c) Coventry History Centre. Used with permission.
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Title
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Projectomatic (Florence Barton)
Subject
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automation
Description
An account of the resource
Projectionist Florence Barton describes getting the first Projectomatic automation machine in Coventry in the late 1950s. She also gives her unfavorable opinion of her male counterparts.
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Coventry History Centre
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Interview with Florence Barton
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The University of Warwick
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2017-03-20
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Coventry History Centre
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.mp3
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English
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Sound recording
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1950s-1960s
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Coventry
1950s
1960s
automation
Midlands
women projectionists
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Projectionists' Memories
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Interviews with projectionists
Description
An account of the resource
Interviews with projectionists
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The Projection Project
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University of Warwick
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.mp3
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English
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Sound recordings
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Richard Wallace
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed
Neil Thompson
Date of Interview
2014-11-11
Location
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Gateshead
Transcription
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We used to have to put pulses on because everything was automated. What it did was, when the pulse went through the projector and it, you had the pick off, well we used to call it the proximity detector, that was the name for it, and when the pulse went by it just connected to a circuit. You used to have two metal drums on this Cinemation circuit and on the drums there was holes in them and you used to have pegs in the holes. And these holes corresponded to these switches. And then these switches used to correspond with your masking, the lights, the curtains. And when that pulse went through it used to advance the drum, once like that. And when the drums advanced, the peg used to correspond with the switch. And of course the switch used to do whatever it had to do you see. When the leader started going through the machine, the first pulse would strike your lamp so the first pulse would go through on the leader and you’d hear the lamp strike. And then next the curtains would open and the lights would go down, and it would switch over to film from your non-sync. Your non-sync by the way is the CD that’s playing. It’s short for non-synchronous. It did everything for you. At the end of the show used to put a pulse on about 30 feet before the end and when that went through it closed the curtains and everything for you. It brought the lights up and it stopped the projector at the end, and, of course, your leader was just hanging. So all you had to do was to switch it on again and make sure it went back onto the bottom plate, clean the machine and then take the ring out and then start and lace it up ready for the next one. So that was still interesting enough ‘cause as I say, you had to be there, you had to do everything. It was up to you to make sure the thing went on. But even though it was automated you still had to keep an eye on it, because with the pulses going through it would get dirty, they might miss when they go through, the pickup might just miss it, and the lamp probably wouldn’t strike. And you would hear it start and you think, “I never heard that lamp strike.” Even when you had automation you still had to keep an eye on these things.
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320kbps
Cinema
Odeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
Empire Cinema, The Gate, Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Automation (Neil Thompson)
Subject
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automated projection
Description
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Projectionist Neil Thompson describes the process of using automated projection systems from the 1980s onwards.
Creator
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The Projection Project
Source
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Interview with Neil Thompson
Publisher
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The University of Warwick
Date
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2015-12-29
Contributor
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Richard Wallace
Neil Thompson
Relation
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http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3307
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/25181
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.mp3
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English
Type
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Sound recording
interview extract
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1980-2014
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Odeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Empire Cinema, The Gate, Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
1980s
1990s
2000s
automation
Neil Thompson
North-East England
presentation and showmanship
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Title
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Projectionists' Memories
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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
Language
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English
Type
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Sound recordings
Oral History
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview
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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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.
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One-to-one interview
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PT00H01M09S
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320kbps
Cinema
Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
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Automation (Mick Corfield)
Subject
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automation
job losses
Description
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Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes is experiences of automated projection systems on the work of projectionists.
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
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http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934
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.mp3
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English
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Sound recording
interview extract
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1992-
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Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham
1990s
2000s
automation
Mick Corfield
Midlands
presentation and showmanship
running the show
team relations
working conditions