"Billy Bitzer seated at Movie Projector."

ID: 5070 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/96501461/. ~ Creator: Photograph by Edward Lynch for The World Telegram & Sun. ~ Date: Created in the 1930s.

This file appears in: Projectionist Strike of 1914

A projectionist at work in the 1930s.

This file appears in: Projectionist Strike of 1914

Projectionist Strike of 1914

By Jocelyn Horner & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Projectionists played a key role in early movie theaters. Despite its central function, the job was not without occupational hazards.