8mm Forum: I am officially... a projectionist!

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Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on July 05, 2011, 09:42 AM:

After a full year of going back to school, studying everything there is to know about safety, optics, mechanics, electricity, formats, etc. in film and digital projection, I took the state exam and just got the news this afternoon that I was officially admitted. I am now a certified projectionnist. Woohoo. [Smile]

Posted by Luis Caramelo (Member # 2430) on July 05, 2011, 10:27 AM:

congratulations,jean i know what you feel i have been a projecionist too when i serve the army and i got a certificate
witch i,m pround

regards
luis caramelo

Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on July 05, 2011, 11:36 AM:

Congratulations - I admire your determination and skills!

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on July 05, 2011, 06:19 PM:

HI Jean

Congratulations [Smile]

How do it feel to be certifiable [Confused]

PatD

Posted by Scott Mallory (Member # 2393) on July 05, 2011, 08:43 PM:

Congrats!

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on July 06, 2011, 01:48 AM:

thanks guys.

quote:
How do it feel to be certifiable

It makes my ageing dad very, very proud. [Big Grin]

Other than that, going back to school and taking an exam at nearly 50 feels very odd and disorientating.

Posted by Martin Jones (Member # 1163) on July 06, 2011, 04:02 AM:

Naughty, naughty, Pasquale!!! I think you are taking advantage of Jean-Marc's (colloquial)English, good though it is. Shame on you!
Martin

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on July 06, 2011, 04:32 AM:

Well, my dad being institutionalized should be a good proof of the family's mental health status... [Big Grin]

Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on July 06, 2011, 06:08 AM:

Trainee projectionist was my first job back in 1959, and I think I must have been certifiable to take it. The hours were long, Saturday being the worst, from the kids matinee at about 8am through to the late night show finishing any time after midnight. No such thing as bank holidays of course. In those days the chief proj. was like god or at least a sergeant major, the floor had to be polished daily and the brass likewise. I was born too late for national service, but I guess this was the next best thing. The odd thing is that, as a film nut, I quite enjoyed it at times, and it even gave a feeling of some importance. Eventually I settled for work in the film labs which offered office hours.
Good luck with the job, it is the last step in the production of a film after all, you can make it or break it, quite a responsibility, and you get a certificate too.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on July 06, 2011, 10:29 AM:

Yet another person joining the happy ranks of the past (myself), present and future projectionists.

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