New York photographer Joseph O. Holmes has always been fascinated by people and the space they inhabit. While at a movie theater with his wife two years ago, Holmes glanced back and saw a face peek ...

As projection booths worldwide are being ported over to humming boxes of digital data, it may hold some value to remember that there were once live people up there calling the shots. New York ...

The glory of cinema, captured on camera. Projectionist Andrew Walker has been working one of the 70mm roadshow versions of Quentin Tarnatino's The Hateful Eight since wide release two weeks ago. Over ...

L.A.'s TCL Chinese is literally building out the projection booth for Christopher Nolan's 11-mile-long latest. But this isn’t the first time. The theater typically uses a sophisticated digital laser ...

Before digital projectors in movie theaters, projectionists had to quickly move from one film reel to the next. NPR takes a look at what's changed since the days of film as part of our series, ...

Part 1 of this three-part series looked at the growth of 3-D movies and electronic distribution. Part 2 focuses on the technology found in the projection booth of a high-end 3-D movie theater. 3-D has ...

With the transition to digital, the days of film–real film–are fast coming to an end. Go into a movie theater nowadays and sit down in the dark, and the picture on the screen won’t be created by a ...

On a recent afternoon, Somerville Theatre projectionist David Kornfeld was waiting for his cue. Kornfeld peered out from the booth’s port window, watching the 35mm print of “Fear and Loathing in Las ...