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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
projectionist
noun
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▪ As a projectionist, how did you find theater conditions in Tucson?
▪ As a projectionist, what did you think of the movie?
▪ If the projectionist didn't like the film it didn't get shown, or only part of it.
▪ In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion.
▪ So projectionists had to put a colour tint on to the screen before the first frame hit.
▪ The projectionist turned off the film and turned on the lights.
▪ The film, projection equipment and projectionist provided by.
▪ There was no projectionist nor projector, nor audience, nor theatre, nor a surrounding city.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
projectionist

1916, from projection + -ist.

Wiktionary
projectionist

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
projectionist

n. the person who operates the projector in a movie house

Wikipedia
Projectionist

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 .