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Author Topic: How old were you when you wanted to become a projectionist? Gunnar Asgeirsson Film Handler Posts: 64 From: Iceland Registered: Jul 2006 posted 10-25-2008 07:54 PM                        How old was you when you start working as a projectionist and how old was you when you firt wanted to be a projectionist. I was a little kid 9 years old the first time i saw a projectionboth and after that i start going to all the cinema and look at all the projectionboth in every cinema here in reykjavík iceland and after that i was shure this was something for me.. And i start working in this when i was 18 years old and i really find myself in this job And now i work in the most popular cinema in iceland.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-25-2008 07:57 PM                     I began at 18, yet was handling film while I was in grade school playing with 16mm.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-25-2008 09:04 PM                     Ran 16mm in the 10th grade, first work as projectionist was at 42 in 1986.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 10-25-2008 09:57 PM                        I was 23 when I started in 1996.  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 10-25-2008 11:04 PM                        I was 14 when thinking about it, 16 when started in 1970 as a union projectionist at the Martini Theater in Galveston Texas, at that time I was the youngest projectionist in the IASTE-MPMO projectionist union, I worked out of local 279 Houston/Galveston until 1985, now technician.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-26-2008 01:50 AM                     Gunnar, The title of this thread needs to be corrected. No teaser subject titles are permitted. This thread will be removed if you do not correct it.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 10-26-2008 04:07 AM                     The proper title should be, "How old were you when you wanted to become a projectionist?" something along those lines. As for me, I was 20 when I came back home and took a job at the local theatre as a team memember. It didn't take me long until I was hooked on the upstairs.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-26-2008 04:10 AM                        I think I was 20 when I was first taught how to thread. Maybe 19. Hard to say. I'm gonna go with 20. I'm 23 now.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 10-26-2008 05:13 AM                     I wanted to be a projectionist as soon as I learned what one was- probably age 3 or so. I first got to handle real theater projection equipment at age 19; I left the theater business the week of my 29th birthday due to an overabundance of stupidity where I was working.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 10-26-2008 06:47 AM                     I had a Ampro 16mm sound projector when I was 10 years old. I started in a change-over booth when I was 15. I lied about my age and told 'em I was 16. That was 1962.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-26-2008 07:01 AM                     12 years old in 1959 when I first ran 16mm.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-26-2008 11:48 AM                     I became hooked at the age of 5 with my first 16MM projector. My hobby expanded and by the time I was 14 I owned two 16MM DeVry's and two old Holmes 35MM projectors. I didn't start working professionally until 1970 when at the age of 26 I began doing relief work and summer house work for Local 243 here in NJ to suppliment my income as a teacher.  |  IP: Logged Louis Belloisy Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: morris, ct usa Registered: Jun 2006 posted 10-26-2008 11:53 AM                        a mere child at 18 with the Simplex carbon arc projectors. that was a few decades ago signs all over the booth...... (Save the copper for the war effort) louis  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-26-2008 12:12 PM                     I was 17 when I got my first job in 1965. I'd been hanging around booths since the age of 12. Bob  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-26-2008 02:05 PM                     ...you can tell that we love our profession.... starting young and still doing it... Now, who else can say that they'd stayed with their profession as long as we've done... I guess, we should add to our comments on "What was it that drew you to being a film handler and/or to the booth?"  |  IP: Logged

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