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Mike Taylor, Allerton (Former projectionist, Paramount/Odeon, London Road) Polls apart I write while ruminating on the referendum of 40 years ago concerning continued membership of the then EEC.

The 65-year-old - who was born above the old Grand cinema in Glasgow's Cowcaddens - had been chief projectionist at Glasgow Film Theare for 32 years.

He appeared in The Last Projectionist, which was released last year, and was on the posters for it.

The Last Projectionist Cert 12A, 80 mins The international film database website IMDb lists the 'cast' of this film as John Brockington, Phil Fawke, Les Castree and Graham Lee.

Most projectionists are also responsible for the technical operations of the cinema outside the projection room.

Elizabeth and her husband, Hugh Kerr, a retired engineering professor, joined the picket line in front of the Princess Cinema just days after cinema owners John and Wendy Tuft locked out their unionized projectionists on January 1, 1997.

Above, are offices, a conference room, and the projectionists' studios, with the various levels connected by a lift (507) enclosed in a glass block shaft (506) and glass stair tower (516).

Cohiba's Kim Ryan explains: "I didn't discover the projectionists at first, I just thought about finding stories from the cinemas.

AS the dawn of digital technology marks the end of an era for two Tyneside cinema projectionists, we asked what your favourite film is Melissa Wyatt, 18, trainee piercing professional from Chester-le-Street, said: "Fight Club, because it is an awesome story and there is a good twist at the end."

The Last Projectionist (12A): A film about The Electric Cinema which stars ex-MAC projectionists!

Lawes also charts how projecting films has changed, too, using a group of mostly former projectionists to share a few drinks and wallow in the good old, make-do-and-mend days they shared long before the digital tsunami now sweeping their ilk out of jobs with unforgiving power.

Directed by The Electric Cinema's owner and director Tom Lawes, it will run at the Station Street cinema for a week from June 22 and include a Q&A with participants and projectionists on June 23.

As well as featuring previously unseen old footage, some of which was literally found on the roof of the " Station Street building, the story is also told through the eyes, minds and souls of a lost generation of projectionists now falling victim to the unrelenting march of technology.

He has been drafted in to operate the machinery because all the projectionists from the previous era have moved on.

Mr Wood was the last bastion of traditional cinema in Liverpool, and after his death at the age of 59, projectionists acros proclaimed the end of an era for private cinema.