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projection booth
noun
: a booth in a theater or hall for housing and operating a projector and especially a movie projector
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The same goes for everyone working the house: There’s a vampire in the projection booth, a vampire working the lights, a vampire striking up the band, all of them in exaggerated fakey-fake vampire makeup.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 May 2024
The balcony pushed the location of the projection booth too high, which can cause keystoning, or tilted, distorted images on screen.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
Technical director Boris Ibañez was upstairs in the theater’s projection booth overseeing installation of the digital projection system.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
Director Yuval Sharon made the unconventional even more so by staging the production in the Michigan Theatre building, a 1926 structure that was hollowed out in 1976 and transformed into a four-story parking garage with the ornate staging area, upper balcony, projection booth and lobby left intact.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2021
Alexander Olch, founder of Metrograph, said that at the first holiday screening in 2016, Lachman went into the projection booth to make a slight adjustment on the color temperature of the film.
—Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
The hall answers this with multiple stage configurations, a pop-out projection booth, elaborate lighting rigs obscured by an elegant mesh ceiling, and acoustic capabilities that can transform to accommodate acoustic or amplified music.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
Snyder was among a pool of photographers from various news outlets who were covering the show from the projection booth in the back of the Dolby Theatre.
—Frank Pallotta, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
But Tampa Theatre’s most dramatic spot for paranormal activity, Witecki said, is the projection booth.
—Kelly A. Stefani, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Projection booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/projection%20booth. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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