I always liked that little window in the back of the theater, although I was scared of the guy who occasionaly would watch me from up there... I also liked to watch specials on "behind the scenes" looks at films, because I am one to always want to know just how certain special effects are done. I never was one for movies, but I guess that I liked the industry...

I only started to really learn about film once I started school at WPI. Since then I became very involved with different aspects of film and movies. Today I still have my Massachusetts Motion Picture Operator's License, but I no longer do any projection, mostly for time constraints with my real job. You could say that projection was a hobby for me...

Lens and Lights (LnL). I joined LNL in freshman year, after Theo talked me into working on movie crews, as I already went to those same movies anyway... Thanks to Theo buying the current Head Projectionist, Greg Marr, at a charity slave auction, and making him go through a PIT (Projectionist In Training) session (as a refresher for his upcoming test), I became a PIT. I learned how to run the booth, threading, sound/soundtracks, putting a movie together, and various other things relating to film. I took my licensing test (apprenticeship exam) with Jon Stewart by pseudo-crew-chiefing the film Little Women. Over break I got my Massachusetts Projectionist licence, and can now crew chief films with LNL, and can go elsewhere to project. I usually worked/ran the 9:30 Sunday night films at WPI... I was one of the few members who is used to running the 16mm projectors (cartoons and cheap movies), but I only need my license for the standard 35mm films, and the occasional 70mm. The only film in 70mm that I've projected has been Baraka, and also Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet. Most of the films that I've done at school are also the same that Theo has listed on his page.

Soccomm Films Committee. I joined the WPI Social Committee's Films Committee at the end of my freshman year. Other than eating pizza and watching various film trailers (previews) for the 35mm "big screen" movies that we vote on to show here, we also pick out films to show on our cable channel. I would occasionally work the standard TSS (Tickets, Sales, and Security) Soccomm crews, but by default of being a projectionist I am a member (that, and I go to meetings to help pick films that will do well in sales on this campus).

Over the summer of 1996, I decided to try to get myself a job as a film projectionist at one of the local cinemaplexes. I ended out working for Hoyts Cinema Corp., at the the Silver City Galleria X in Taunton, MA. I had to learn how to run a platter system, and how to put films into platters, rather than reels... I still am not used to fixing brain-wraps, but I'd prefer to keep my practice to a minimum. 8) As I was the only one there who dared to touch a slide projector, I became the Slide Manager for a few months... I also had to learn how to deal with the Jimmy Fund PSAs, and commercials, as well as moving film on platters. Expect a link to a longer page soon, plus graphics. 8) For now, here's a list of films that I dealt with. I'm working on an on-line tour of the theater...

Yes, I know that the film graphic is a little off... consider it to be a 70mm film... (5 sprocket holes per frame).