#Bigass machinery my beloved

[bendysinitiation]

Back in the day’, the cinematic film projectors you’d see in a movie theater were nothing like the smaller ones at home. These were giant, 6-foot tall, gas-powered behemoths that had to get a film on-screen from many, many feet away. It might’ve not looked it, but being a projectionist required hauling giant cans of film, rigging lights, feeding it in correctly, and keeping a whole audience happy.

I propose a new Projectionist design with this in mind. I don’t know much about how projectionists worked in animation studios, but I assume they had the same job, just without the sound, so the foley artists and bands did the recording while it played (correct me if I’m wrong).

SO, theoretically, Norman could’ve looked like this:

And you know I’m putting this funny man into the au cause it’s an awesome idea. (Sidenote: if Norman was doing this work all by himself he’d be buff, just saying. It can be real if you want it to be.)

References under the cut

All photos are taken from “Reel Stories - An Oral History of London’s Cinema Projectionists” on YouTube. If you have the time, go check it out! It’s very interesting!

Here’s also the original ones that first gave me this idea, that I found on Google! If you want more images or background, I just searched up “Simplex model E-7”.