New York photographer Joseph O. Holmes has always been fascinated by people and the space they inhabit. While at a movie theater with his wife two years ago, Holmes glanced back and saw a face peek ...

Before he became a film critic, NPR's Bob Mondello worked for a chain of movie theaters. He spent a lot of time in projection booths back then, and it had been a while since Bob climbed those stairs.

Ever since he was a boy catching Saturday matinees at his local movie theater, photographer Joseph O. Holmes has wondered what went on in the small windowed room above the audience. A few years ago, ...

As projection booths worldwide are being ported over to humming boxes of digital data, it may hold some value to remember that there were once live people up there calling the shots. New York ...

The glory of cinema, captured on camera. Projectionist Andrew Walker has been working one of the 70mm roadshow versions of Quentin Tarnatino's The Hateful Eight since wide release two weeks ago. Over ...

Part 1 of this three-part series looked at the growth of 3-D movies and electronic distribution. Part 2 focuses on the technology found in the projection booth of a high-end 3-D movie theater. 3-D has ...

Before digital projectors in movie theaters, projectionists had to quickly move from one film reel to the next. NPR looks at what has changed... Step inside a movie projection booth to see what's ...

Before digital projectors in movie theaters, projectionists had to quickly move from one film reel to the next. NPR takes a look at what's changed since the days of film as part of our series, ...