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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
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview
Richard Wallace
Interviewee
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Phil Fawke
Date of Interview
2014-12-04
Location
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Birmingham
Transcription
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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.
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320kbps
Cinema
mac (Midlands Arts Centre), Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
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Title
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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
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The Projection Project
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Interview with Phil Fawke
Publisher
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The University of Warwick
Date
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2015-12-09
Contributor
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Richard Wallace
Phil Fawke
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A related resource
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24157
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.mp3
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English
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Sound recording
interview extract
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2000-
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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
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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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An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
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
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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The American idea was called floating screens. You have what’s called variable masking and that’s masking that comes into the side or can be lowered and it crops your picture. But what they wanted to do, they wanted to have a wow factor, so when you’d walk in you’d see a wall to wall screen. But the only problem with that is there’s no mechanism to put tabs there, or masking. Tabs are curtains, festoons are the ones that gather up and go up into the ceiling, tabs are the ones that swish along at the side. But there’s no mechanism, you see, because obviously if you’re going wall to wall there’s nowhere to put these things. So there’s your presentation for starters, ‘cause you’d go in there and you’d just start “bang” on the screen. You’ve got no tabs opening, you’ve got not the thrill of like the opening film saying ‘Your feature presentation’ and the lovely swish of the tabs opening and your house lights going down and your footlights going down and your sound building up. Well it’s not, it’s like you go in, the lights drop, “bang”, ‘cause no one’s there to mute the sound, as every join that goes through with a “tap,” “tap,” “bang,” “bang,” “bang,” “bang,” and you’re on screen, blurred away, sound hasn’t kicked in. All of a sudden you think, “Oh the sub hasn’t kicked in. Oh the sub’s kicked in now.” And of course if you’re doing twelve you can’t be – especially where there’s a few of them start at the same time – at every single one. So some would be out of rack where feet are at the top and heads at the bottom, some would be in the wrong ratio and then you’d have to... somebody would radio and you’d go along and then you’d rack it up or rack it down, like you might have a hair or the plate hasn’t gone over properly or stuff like that. So that’s the presentation side of it.
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PT00H01M20S
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320kbps
Cinema
MGM/Virgin/UGC, Arcadian Centre, Birmingham
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Title
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Lack of presentation in multiplexes (Mick Corfield)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Americanisation of cinema
presentation
multiplexes
Description
An account of the resource
Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes the erosion of presentation in multiplex cinemas.
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/25915
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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MGM/Virgin/UGC, Arcadian Centre, Birmingham
1990s
2000s
Mick Corfield
multiplexes
presentation and showmanship
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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
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
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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Richard Wallace
Interviewee
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Mick Corfield
Date of Interview
2015-08-03
Location
The location of the interview
Coventry
Transcription
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The time I knew that we were finished was the time when there was a problem with a projector and I was standing with my projectionist and we dialled in on the ISDN line, he sorted it out and he said to me on the phone, “All I’ve got to do is press ‘start’, shall I press ‘start’?” And I went, “I don’t think that’s a good idea, do you?” And he went, “No actually.” And then I pressed ‘start’ and then I turned round to my colleague and went, “We’re finished because if he can press ‘start’ remotely we’re finished.” So that was when it was pretty straightforward that we knew that we were on our way out.
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PT00H00M36S
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320kbps
Cinema
Cineworld, 181 Broad Street, Birmingham
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Title
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Digital projection (Mick Corfield)
Subject
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digital projection
job losses
union business
Description
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Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes the moment he knew digital projectors would replace projectionists.
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The Projection Project
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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
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Richard Wallace
Mick Corfield
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http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24153
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.mp3
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English
Type
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Sound recording
interview extract
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Cineworld, 181 Broad Street, Birmingham
2000s
2010s
digital projection
Mick Corfield
Midlands
multiplexes
running the show
things going wrong
working conditions