List of projection and projectionists in film

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A Goldberg film can spotted in The Tingler.

Title	Director	Year	Type	Notes
Empire of Light	Sam Mendes	2022	Featured
Pearl	Ti West	2022	Featured	Features a projectionist working in a 1918 single projector booth, with some technical errors.
Bergman Island	Mia Hansen-Løve	2021	Featured
The Other Side Of The Wind	Orson Wells	2018	Featured	Excellent projectionist & booth moments throughout
24 Frames Per Century	Athina Rachel Tsangari	2013	Featured	Tsangari's short film was made to commemorate the 70th Venice International Film Festival and features two projectors facing the sea and speaking to each other.
Chillerama	Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan, Adam Green, Joe Lynch	2011
Stella Days	Thaddeus O'Sullivan	2011	Featured	An Irish priest starts a community cinema and feels conflicted.
Hugo	Martin Scorsese	2011	Featured
Cinema Komunisto	Mila Turajlic	2010	Featured	A documentary about President of Yugoslavia Josip Tito as told through his personal projectionist. He claims to have screened a film for Tito every single night for over 30 years.
A Useful Life	Federico Veiroj	2010	Featured
Maurice	Patrick Brice	2010	Featured	Short documentary on a Paris porno projectionist.
Road, Movie	Dev Benegal	2009	Featured
Inglorious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	2009	Featured
Daddy Longlegs	Josh & Bennie Safdie	2009	Featured	A man struggles to watch his two young sons while working as a projectionist in New York City.
Om Shanti Om	Farah Khan	2007	Featured	Our hero watches dailies in a studio screening room. His buddy, who is operating the projector, has manipulated the footage as part of a plot to close in on the villain!
Zodiac	David Fincher	2007	Incidental	No actual projection booth scenes, but one of the main suspects in the Zodiac murders case is a projectionist who works in a silent film house named Rick Marshall. Marshall doesn't appear in the film as a character, but there is a scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character visits the house of a friend of Marshall's ( a silent film organist) and sees his creepy basement film collection.
Janji Joni	Joko Anwar	2005	Featured
Reel Paradise	Steve James	2005	Incidental
John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns	John Carpenter	2005	Featured	A film collector (and projectionist) dies a gory projector-related death!
A Muslim Childhood	Moumen Smihi	2005	Incidental	The cinema plays a formative role in the life of a teenage boy growing up in Tangier. One brief shot of a projectionist (and turret).
Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Tsai Ming-liang	2003	Featured
Bulletproof Monk	Paul Hunter	2003	Featured
Porn Theatre (also: "Glowing Eyes", "La chatte à deux têtes"	Jacques Nolot	2002	Featured
East Is East	Damien O'Donnell	1999
Fight Club	David Fincher	1999	Incidental	One of the more well known projectionist scenes in film, Brad Pitt's character shows us how cue-marks work and how he spends his time splicing porno frames into regular films.
La Cité de la peur	Alain Berbérian	1994
Last Action Hero	John McTiernan	1993	Featured
Matinee	Joe Dante	1993	Featured	Climax ends in the projection booth, John Goodman operates a third projector from behind the screen.
Come See the Paradise	Alan Parker	1990
Apartment Zero	Martin Donovan	1989
Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	1988	Featured
Anguish	Bigas Luna	1987	Incidental	A killer in the booth!
Coming Up Roses	Stephen Bayly	1986	Featured	When the cinema where they work closes the projectionist and concessionaire attempt to start a mushroom growing business in the auditorium. Set and filmed in Wales.
Dead End Drive-In	Brian Trenchard-Smith	1986	Incidental	Set at a dystopian drive-in where no one can leave. Trenchard-Smith's films are seen on the screen, one very brief projection booth moment, and the manager walks around carrying Goldberg cans in several scenes.
Demons	Lamberto Bava	1985
Desperately Seeking Susan	Susan Seidelman	1985	Featured	Aidan Quinn plays a projectionist, two scenes are shot in the booth (the now closed Bleeker Street Theater in New York City). Also some criminals break into Aidan's apartment and dump all his reels of film on the floor!
Night of the Comet	Thom Eberhardt	1984	Incidental	a high school girl shacks up in the booth with her projectionist boyfriend, leaving her as one of the sole survivors after a comet eradicates most of humanity.
Gremlins	Joe Dante	1984	Incidental	The gremlins gather in a movie theater to watch Snow White. Chaos ensues!
Ah Ying	Allen Fong	1983	Featured	Two people lovingly clean the port glass in a small screening room. Later, a main character enters a different projection booth to yell at a projectionist for removing a scene from the print.
Man of Iron	Andrzej Wajda	1981	Featured	Long scene in a very well decorated projection booth about 35mins in.
The Muppet Movie	James Frawley	1979	Incidental	Animal is the projectionist as the Muppets watch a cut of The Muppet Movie. Needless to say, some film frames burn.
Kings of the Road	Wim Wenders	1976	Featured	One of the most beautiful films featuring film projection, Kings of the Road follows a projector repairman and his suicidal cohort as they visit various theaters in Eastern Germany.
Projection Instructions	Morgan Fisher	1976	Featured	Morgan Fisher's Avant-garde films often touch on film as a medium and projection. A good description of some of his films can be found here
Small Change	François Truffaut	1976
The Spirit of the Beehive	Víctor Erice	1973	Incidental	A traveling cinema comes to a Spanish village and screens Frankenstein
The Projectionist	Harry Hurwitz	1971	Featured
Targets	Peter Bogdanovich	1968	Incidental	A drive-in movie theater projectionist is shot by a sniper through the projection port!
Casino Royale	John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Val Guest	1967
Masculin Féminin	Jean-Luc Godard	1966	Incidental	Jean-Pierre Leaud yells at the projectionist for messing up the aspect ratio!
Persona	Ingmar Bergman	1966	Incidental	Film opens with beautiful images of film running through a projector. See here
Contempt	Jean-Luc Godard	1963	Incidental	Watch an angry Jack Palance smack a pile of film cans out of the hands of a very dejected looking projectionist.
Cléo from 5 to 7	Agnès Varda	1962	Featured	Cléo and her friend Dorothée deliver a print to Dorothée's boyfriend Raoul, a projectionist at a Paris cinema. They all watch a short film (starring Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina) from the booth.
The Tingler	William Castle	1959	Featured	Much of the film is set at a movie theater, and there's a significant scene during which a projectionist meets THE TINGLER! Also features an early depiction of LSD ingestion.
The Blob	Irvin Yeaworth	1958
The Smallest Show on Earth	Basil Dearden	1957	Featured	Peter Sellers as a drunk (yet committed!) projectionist working at a struggling theater
The Bad and the Beautiful	Vincente Minnelli	1952
Clash By Night	Fritz Lang	1951
Mother Goose	Ray Harryhausen	1946	Featured	A goose projectionist!
Cartoons Ain't Human	Seymour Kneitel	1943	Featured	Popeye makes an animated cartoon and projects it for his family. Toward the end, it becomes an expanded cinema performance!
Hellzapoppin'	H. C. Potter	1941	Incidental
She Was An Acrobat's Daughter	Friz Freleng	1937	Incidental	A duck projectionist has some technical issues.
This Way Please	Robert Florey	1937	Featured	A musical comedy set in a movie theater, features a musical number and a fight scene both in the projection booth.
The Death Kiss	Edward L. Marin	1932	Featured
Sherlock,Jr.	Buster Keaton	1924	Featured	Buster Keaton as a projectionist who falls asleep on the job and enters the frame himself...
Dogs of War!	Robert F. McGowan	1923	Featured	The "Our Gang" kids bust into Hollywood, make their own movie, and then project it.
His Nibs	Gregory La Cava	1921	Featured	Set in a rural theater run by an elderly projectionist nicknamed "His Nibs," featuring a film within a film that the projectionist narrates because someone cut out the title cards. The film includes number of projection related gags.
Luke's Movie Muddle	Hal Roach	1916
The Countryman and the Cinematograph	Robert W. Paul	1901

List of projection and projectionists in film

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