Crossword clues for projectionist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1916, from projection + -ist.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation. 2 One who subscribes to the philosophy of projectionism.
WordNet
n. the person who operates the projector in a movie house
Wikipedia
A projectionist is a person who operates a movie projector. In the strict sense of the term this means any film projector and therefore could include someone who operates the projector in a show . In common usage the term is generally understood to describe a paid employee of a movie theater. They are also known as "operators".
Usage examples of "projectionist".
The projectionist adjusted the focus, and the screen filled with a black-and-white picture of a woman with light, tousled hair.
It was rumored that even the projectionist sometimes stirred himself and went home to bed.
He took the elevator down, handed all the film cans to a waiting projectionist, straightened his tie, and entered the screening room.
The anonymous one was a projectionist who took the reels and disappeared into the back of the projection room.
We sat for a minute in the soft easychairs until the projectionist buzzed ready.
Jarris lust asked for that film, and the projectionist said you took it.
The old theaters that run a movie with two projectors, a projectionist has to stand right there to change projectors at the exact second so the audience never sees the break when one reel starts and one reel ran out.
The projectionist booth is soundproof because inside the booth is the racket of sprockets snapping film past the lens at six feet a second, ten frames a foot, sixty frames a second snapping through, clattering Gatling-gun fire.
His name was Tyler Durden, and he was a movie projectionist with the union, and he was a banquet waiter at a hotel, downtown, and he gave me his phone number.
Mister his honor, mister chapter president of the local chapter of the national united projectionist and independent theater operators union just sat.
At the projectionist union office, Tyler had laughed after the union president punched him.
He said something to the projectionist, who nodded and took over the task while Jao strode to the lectern.
Daly, born in Yonkers, New York, and a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, had given up on an acting career, become a movie projectionist, and moved from that into ownership of a chain of movie theatres.
Inorganic beings are superb projectionists, who delight in projecting themselves like pictures on the wall.
Within two or three successive seconds, millions of people in widely separated areas-factory and office workers, farmers, housewives, shoppers, salesclerks, restaurant operators, printers, service station attendants, stock-brokers, hoteliers, hairdressers, movie projectionists and patrons, streetcar motormen, TV station staffs and viewers, bartenders, mail sorters, wine makers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pinball players .