projection booth
noun
: a booth in a theater or hall for housing and operating a projector and especially a movie projector
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With such a scheme, there would be no need for a projection booth in the theater.
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IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2014
The Londoner, which started charging for subscriptions on January 15th, covered the cinema dispute with an atmospheric post, describing the whirring in the theatre’s projection booth, coming from its Cinemacanica Victoria 8 dual-gauge projector.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
The same goes for everyone working the house: There’s a vampire in the projection booth, a vampire working the lights, a vampire striking up the band, all of them in exaggerated fakey-fake vampire makeup.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 May 2024
The balcony pushed the location of the projection booth too high, which can cause keystoning, or tilted, distorted images on screen.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
Technical director Boris Ibañez was upstairs in the theater’s projection booth overseeing installation of the digital projection system.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
Director Yuval Sharon made the unconventional even more so by staging the production in the Michigan Theatre building, a 1926 structure that was hollowed out in 1976 and transformed into a four-story parking garage with the ornate staging area, upper balcony, projection booth and lobby left intact.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2021
Alexander Olch, founder of Metrograph, said that at the first holiday screening in 2016, Lachman went into the projection booth to make a slight adjustment on the color temperature of the film.
—Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
The hall answers this with multiple stage configurations, a pop-out projection booth, elaborate lighting rigs obscured by an elegant mesh ceiling, and acoustic capabilities that can transform to accommodate acoustic or amplified music.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
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IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2014
The Londoner, which started charging for subscriptions on January 15th, covered the cinema dispute with an atmospheric post, describing the whirring in the theatre’s projection booth, coming from its Cinemacanica Victoria 8 dual-gauge projector.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
The same goes for everyone working the house: There’s a vampire in the projection booth, a vampire working the lights, a vampire striking up the band, all of them in exaggerated fakey-fake vampire makeup.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 May 2024
The balcony pushed the location of the projection booth too high, which can cause keystoning, or tilted, distorted images on screen.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
Technical director Boris Ibañez was upstairs in the theater’s projection booth overseeing installation of the digital projection system.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
Director Yuval Sharon made the unconventional even more so by staging the production in the Michigan Theatre building, a 1926 structure that was hollowed out in 1976 and transformed into a four-story parking garage with the ornate staging area, upper balcony, projection booth and lobby left intact.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2021
Alexander Olch, founder of Metrograph, said that at the first holiday screening in 2016, Lachman went into the projection booth to make a slight adjustment on the color temperature of the film.
—Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
The hall answers this with multiple stage configurations, a pop-out projection booth, elaborate lighting rigs obscured by an elegant mesh ceiling, and acoustic capabilities that can transform to accommodate acoustic or amplified music.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
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