projectionist

Examples

• All

• Less than twenty years later, I was the best projectionist in New York.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The projectionist quickly adjusted the settings to ensure the movie played smoothly on the big screen.

• And then I went to World War II, and I was a film projectionist on army transport ships.

  The Good Life (2007)

• Last year alone, he worked as a cook, movie projectionist, and beer bottler.

  Fiction book (1994)

• I was still working as the projectionist at the Star of Bethany drive-in.

  Dust Devil (1992)

• He had one part-time job as a projectionist.

  Fight Club (1999)

• The movie and outtakes had been offered to the National Geographic Society in 1971 by the widow of the projectionist.

  Academic text (1993)

• A blind girl had just handed Charlie Chaplin a flower, and my father, the projectionist, was supposed to switch reels.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Whitehead went back to work for Walnut as the chain's head San Diego projectionist in 1978.

  Blog text (8)

• Hard times bankrupted Justin's pharmacist father, and Barbara's father worked as a motion picture projectionist after his business failed.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

L

lanternist

vsprojectionist

• Archaic

9.9

A person who projects pictures with a magic lantern for an audience

operates a projector in cinemas to show films to paying audiences

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