The Projectionist
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Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 17 January 1971 (NYC)24 March 1971 (SF) Cast (Projectionist / Captain Flash), (Renaldi / The Bat), (The Girl), Jára Kohout (Candy Man / Scientist), Harry Hurwitz (Friendly Usher), Lucky Kargo (Usher / Henchman)Similar movies Zombieland , Taxi Driver , Last Action Hero , The Haunting , Sherlock, Jr. , Red Mist |
The projectionist trailer with english subtitles
The Projectionist is a 1970 American comedy film written and directed by Harry Hurwitz. It featured the film debut of Rodney Dangerfield, and employed the use of superimposition of older films, the first time such techniques were used. Production took place in September and October 1969 and its first public screening was a year later, at the Rochester Film Festival on October 17, 1970. The film opened in New York on January 17, 1971.
Contents
- The projectionist trailer with english subtitles
- Impersonation scene the projectionist 1971 with chuck mccann
- Plot
- The secret adventures of the projectionist
- References

Impersonation scene the projectionist 1971 with chuck mccann
Plot

Chuck McCann, the projectionist, is seen operating projection booth equipment followed by The Projectionist opening credits. The Midtown Theater, located in Midtown Manhattan is managed by Renaldi who continually insults and berates his employees. Spending hours in the projection booth, Chuck imagines himself as the superhero Captain Flash. When Harry, one of the ushers, enters the booth to complain about Renaldi, Chuck describes to him the beautiful woman he saw earlier, calling her "The Girl". Renaldi comes into the booth and rebukes Harry for disobeying his orders not to visit the projection area and criticizes Chuck for leaving a cigarette butt on the floor.

His mood spoiled, Chuck starts to rewind a film reel and listens to a radio broadcast, hearing, "the way I see things, I'm not very optimistic at all, I just don't think there's much hope for the future", followed by an on-screen trailer, "COMING SOON", The Terrible World of Tomorrow — "SEE man become the dehumanized slave of science" — "SEE Years of Racial Hatred Erupt in an Orgy of Blood-Lust" / "As One Half of The World Assaults the Other" — "SEE the Horror of Total Holocaust" — "SEE Man Destroyed by his Own Technology" / "and the World Explodes in a Blaze of Hellish Fury" — "SEE The End of Mankind in…" / The Terrible World of Tomorrow, as the radio broadcast continues, "no.. how can we disagree with Doctor Masters… gentlemen… gentlemen… gentlemen… what we're missing is the point about..."

At the end of his working day, Chuck looks at movie star photographs on the booth's wall and cabinets and impersonates the voice and mannerisms of Humphrey Bogart with quotes of film dialogue from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Caine Mutiny and The Maltese Falcon (for which he also does Sydney Greenstreet). He then imitates Wallace Beery in Min and Bill, John Wayne in The Green Berets, James Stewart in The Spirit of St. Louis and Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind (for which he also does Butterfly McQueen). Finally, McCann (who hosted, from 1960 to 1962, the New York City daily children's TV show Laurel and Hardy and Chuck) glances at a photo of Laurel and Hardy and recreates their voices, "Say goodnight Stanley", "Goodnight Stanley" then, switching to Bogart, ends with, "so long, Fred C. Dobbs".
The secret adventures of the projectionist




References
The Projectionist WikipediaThe Projectionist IMDb The Projectionist themoviedb.org