The Dying Art Of Film Projectionists: In Pictures
by The Daily Eye Team April 25 2016, 3:46 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 25 secsAs film gives way to digital, Richard Nicholson gained access to an endangered habitat where most cinema-goers never venture – the projection box – to document the people who make the movies move Sam Bishop, The Electric, Birmingham
‘The biggest challenge with projectionists is that they work in near total darkness,’ says Nicholson. ‘I [had to] set up lights to simulate the ambience of the projection room. The Electric is Britain’s oldest working cinema.’