https://cinemaprojectionist.co.uk/files/original/4d0d0d306d4ad4b39307d2975364cc57.mp3 19b005a6ef8cac8e36ebba176724b48b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource 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 An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Neil Thompson Date of Interview 2014-11-11 Location The location of the interview Gateshead Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound And you had to keep an eye on the speakers on the stage, make sure they were still working all right. And every now and again we used to put a test film on from what I can remember. Somebody used to go in the auditorium while you put this test film on just to make sure that each speaker was working. So they knew that the ambiance was working from this side. And they’d say, “Right, we’ll try the left speaker. Yes, the left speaker is working. The centre speakers’ working. The right speaker is working”. And then you had an outside speaker which was like on the stage. So, again, we used to do that. Then you had to go up to the amplifiers which are in the boxes as well, you had to keep an eye on those ‘cause you had a standby amplifier which I had to check, put that in, make sure that's okay in case it went off during a show. So it was, it was interesting. I mean for a lad 16 year old coming from school and going and seeing all that, I mean it was just horrendous at first, my god. But I was so interested I just went in, I just went in head first. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H00M51S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Queens Theatre, Northumberland Place, Newcastle upon Tyne Odeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Setting up sound (Neil Thompson) Subject The topic of the resource setting up sound Description An account of the resource Projectionist Neil Thompson describes the process of setting up and checking cinema sound systems. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Neil Thompson Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-29 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Neil Thompson Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/26353 http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3307 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1974-1990 POINT(-179195.26666826 7357428.1856528)|16|-179058.5160474|7357492.1755381|osm Queens Theatre, Northumberland Place, Newcastle upon Tyne POINT(-179436.52103877 7356806.6869249)|16|-179310.5193750|7356523.1271973|osm Odeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne 1970s 1980s 1990s Neil Thompson North-East England presentation and showmanship sound and music https://cinemaprojectionist.co.uk/files/original/8a9875da41e0f4934cac673d997e0e17.mp3 45fe00183c3ff0070a83da20520fe39c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource 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 An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Neil Thompson Date of Interview 2014-11-11 Location The location of the interview Gateshead Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound And I think presentation was the order of the day. Presentation and showmanship for me was spot on. And that’s what I was taught. How to put the film on properly. I've been to so many cinemas where they’ve put a film on, but what they’ve done is they haven’t opened the curtains at the right time, they haven’t took the lights down at the right time. Now that to me is bad presentation. ‘cause I mean when you start a machine you’ve got, I don’t know if you are aware, you’ve got a countdown leader. We used to start on number eight and what we used to do was used to start the machine and then take the lights down and then open the curtains because it took a long time for the curtains to open because they were very slow. So in actual fact when the film went on, the curtains would be, say, two thirds of the way open. So your picture went on the screen and not on top of them, you know? And I think that’s to do with presentation. And keeping an eye on the sound levels, that's another thing you had to be careful of. You had to go downstairs into the stalls and think, “Right, well can I hear that?” You had to be able to hear every whisper. Doesn’t matter whether the music’s loud, or the effects is loud, that’s deliberate. But you had to be able to hear every word. You’ve got effects banging and music that you need to hear, and I think music needs to be heard not, not fantastically loud but it needs to be heard in order to make an impression. There has to be plenty of bass there to make you think, “God, listen to that, that’s fantastic”. You see that's what presentation is all about. When a curtain opens and you see a picture come on the screen, I used to look right in the corners to make sure there’s no fuzzy lines. Because obviously the aperture plate had to be cut exactly right. Because if the aperture plate inside the projector was over cut you got the picture going onto the masking. Again, bad presentation. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M45S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Queens Theatre, Northumberland Place, Newcastle upon Tyne Odeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Presentation (Neil Thompson) Subject The topic of the resource presentation Description An account of the resource Projectionist Neil Thompson outlines the process of starting the film, checking sound levels and checking the aperture plates as part of good presentation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Neil Thompson Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-29 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Neil Thompson Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/26353 http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3307 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1974-1990 POINT(-179195.26666828 7357426.543451)|16|-179069.2650045|7357540.6951361|osm Queens Theatre, Northumberland Place, Newcastle upon Tyne POINT(-179438.90969589 7356798.3266248)|16|-179240.0539895|7356569.7060113|osm Odeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne 1970s 1980s 1990s Neil Thompson North-East England presentation and showmanship running the show sound and music https://cinemaprojectionist.co.uk/files/original/28271c0a0edf899cd600754a25d0d7f0.mp3 37d68d2882dc6e96f54f447a03c34917 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource 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 An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mick Corfield Date of Interview 2015-08-03 Location The location of the interview Coventry Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound What we used to do, we used to open... We used to go... And I’ll talk you through it ‘cos it always makes me laugh. And Jack Spittle who was the senior projectionist at the time, the old projectionist. So we used to laugh because we used to go through this routine, we used to go... It used to be like being on a ship. It used to be “House lights to half, Mr Corfield.” “House lights to half, Mr Spittle.” And we used to take... We had little dials, knobs, that we used to take down, so we used to take the house lights to half. “Projector turn on.” “Projector turn on.” So we’d turn the projector on. But then with the take up of the film, because the film would sag, because the take up of the 12,000 foot spool wouldn’t take up quick enough. So while you were doing with one hand various things you’d have to hold the film until it took up. If you didn’t it’d snap the film. So the film would still carry on going through the gate but end up on the floor and then you’d have to stop it really quickly, and when you’d try and stop it before you obviously opened the douser, which is obviously what lets the light on the screen, and then you’d see the film. So obviously we’d open the douser, open the shutter and away we’d go, whilst taking the house lights to half. So you’d got your house lights to half, you’d run your projector, you take your spotlights down, which’d be at the front of the screen which’d be shining on the tabs, the curtains, the tabs. So then obviously what you do then is you press button, button, button, dial, dial, dial, and open it all lovely, so it’d open up with the Cannon cinemas ident as all the lights would drop down. This of course making sure the film hasn’t broken and also bringing the sound off so we hadn’t got a bang, ‘cause when a join goes through it bangs. Fading the sound down and fading the sound up. So of course once you’ve done your adverts you have to do the same thing again for your trailers, you’d bring the tabs down. You wouldn’t put your house lights up but you’d bring the tabs down and you’d bring your stage lights up to half, so you’d do that. So it’s called presentation. So we’d do all that and then we’d stop for an ice-cream sale and we’d put a spotlight on and do the ice-cream sale and then we’d start the main feature and away we’d go. So that’s what we’d do. And then we’d have to be down there five minutes from the end. We’d go down periodically and check, we’d stay there and make sure it was in the right ratio, any hair in the gate, anything like that, and you’d have to try and remove it because you couldn’t stop the show – all these little tricks that you learnt over the time. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M53S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Starting a performance (Mick Corfield) Subject The topic of the resource team relations starting a film screening Description An account of the resource Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes the process of starting a performance. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mick Corfield Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mick Corfield Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1989-1992 POINT(-224249.52035759 6884220.4276746)|12|-218932.3695782|6886417.4883802|osm Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham 1990s 2000s audiences Mick Corfield Midlands preparing the print presentation and showmanship running the show sound and music team relations training https://cinemaprojectionist.co.uk/files/original/46594dd03a0c9569686266e9c414701e.mp3 cd323a53934ef6528a37e4e59d1b0b03 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Projectionists' Memories Subject The topic of the resource 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 An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Warwick Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recordings Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Richard Wallace Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Mike Williams Date of Interview 2015-08-25 Location The location of the interview Cardiff Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound We used to … you’ll like this, we used to rehearse gramophone music. Note the gramophone, that’s all we had in those days was the non-sync, you know, and on Sunday afternoon we’d go in and Frank Saunders would run through the records we could use that week. We couldn’t use any records that weren’t sympathetic towards the film we were showing. And I brought in a rock n roll because it was rock n roll records in those days, I brought a rock n roll record in one day because we were showing The Tommy Steel Story and I suggested that we play this record and he went absolutely bananas with me. “We don’t play music like that in cinemas! We don’t play vocals in the intermission. Vocals are not on.” And, of course, I don’t know whether it applied to the rest of the country but we weren’t allowed to play music before 5:30 on a Sunday. We used to open the cinema at five o’clock, and had complete silence until 5:30 and then you could put a record on and play. A legal obligation in those days, yeah. Sunday cinema had only just come in, you know, and they’re very chapel around here, you see. And a lot of the chapels came out at 5:30 so it was all right to play music after 5:30 but not before chapel come out. So Sunday afternoons we used to go in, play the music that Frank Saunders thought was applicable and in all fairness it used to work. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data One-to-one interview Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) PT00H01M23S Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 320kbps Cinema ABC (Olympia) Cinema, 67 Queen Street, Cardiff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Music (Mike Williams) Subject The topic of the resource music in the cinema Description An account of the resource Projectionist Mike Williams describes the process of selecting music to be played in the auditorium prior to film screenings. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Projection Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Interview with Mike Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Warwick Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Wallace Mike Williams Relation A related resource http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound recording interview extract Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-1964 POINT(-353451.98471281 6707026.38915)|15|-353502.1465126|6706814.1718927|osm ABC (Olympia), 67 Queen Street, Cardiff 1950s 1960s chief projectionist Mike Williams presentation and showmanship sound and music team relations Wales working conditions