How to Use projectionist in a Sentence

projectionist

noun

• Each buzzer had two motors with wires that ran up to the booth, and the projectionist would hit the switch.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
• The theater had planned to hire a nonunion projectionist to run the screening.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Whether the show would go on came down to Chris Jolly, the projectionist.
  — Ted Alcorn Evelyn Freja, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• Parents were yelling at the projectionist to stop, covering their kids’ eyes and ears.
  — Joe Dziemianowicz, ajc, 29 Apr. 2018
• The popcorn guy or movie projectionist would have to have collected them.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
• Habibullah Habib, 61, a film projectionist who helped hide the films decades ago, said of that day.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• So, the Wolfe brothers would argue, the projectionist is part of the same creative process.
  — Ted Alcorn Evelyn Freja, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• And imagine a team of four or five projectionists working to keep the presentation in sync.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• My father had been a projectionist briefly in the ’50s, and that smoothed my path into the union, which was a very closed union.
  — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
• And so the projectionist room at the Texas Theatre is build with fire suppression in mind.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2018
• Plus, going the extra mile by having a real-life projectionist show films this way makes every screening one-of-a-kind.
  — Sophie-Claire Hoeller, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
• Mom’s youngest brother was a movie projectionist by trade, and a railroad enthusiast.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2019
• The projectionist showed the second reel first, and as my grandfather said, the film was already confusing enough.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
• The theater also serves the best popcorn in town, says Ferguson, who once worked here as a projectionist.
  — Julekha Dash, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
• The film’s title was inspired by late night walks and talks Belabbes shared with the cinema’s projectionist.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
• The daily diaries also note some screenings the White House projectionist wouldn’t have been aware of.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• But sucking at vanilla here is like taking popcorn to a cinema without a projectionist or waiting for a lover who has long since left you.
  — Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2026
• Mays was at a movie theater in Sioux City, Iowa, when the projectionist stopped the film to make an announcement.
  — Dan Brown, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• The light from the projectionist’s booth haloes out from behind her head in warm, sanctifying rays, electrifying strands of her hair.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• The projectionist was losing a bout with the two antiquated projectors used to show the film’s 10 full reels.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
• Everyone working at this screening — venue staff, projectionist, and culinary team — will be female.
  — Andrea Park, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2017
• In the projection room at the back of the theater, there is a film splicer, a set of old projectors, and a toilet and sink for film projectionists working long shifts.
  — Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Showing film itself has gotten much more challenging, just in terms of the equipment, the qualified projectionists and so forth.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Great movie, interrupted a half-dozen times when the 35-millimeter print failed and was promptly fixed by the projectionist.
  — Mary Jo Murphy, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• The Billiken had two projectors, and the projectionist had to seamlessly switch between reels via a foot pedal.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Because Imax is the pinnacle for projectionists to get to operate.
  — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
• The Belcourt has a rectangular projectionist's room that will make any movie fan nostalgic.
  — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 18 May 2025
• Look for non-employees coming in and out of the projectionist’s booth or arriving at odd hours claiming to be a friend of an employee or manager.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2013
• Studios saved on mailing film prints, and theater owners got to fire their projectionists, skilled engineers who monitored the screen and fixed anything that broke.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 25 July 2026
• The theaters call into service 60 projectionists with special training, some of them retired.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 18 July 2023