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Career Details :: Motion Picture Projectionists
Description
Set up and operate motion picture projection and related sound reproduction equipment.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Sets up and operates motion picture/projection and sound-reproducing equipment to project or produce pictures and sound effects on screen.
- Inserts film into top magazine reel or threads film through the projector and onto automatic spool of projector.
- Monitors equipment operation and changes projectors without interruption to showing.
- Regulates and adjusts projection light and focus, volume, tone, and timing of projection equipment.
- Operates special-effects equipment, such as stereopticon, to project pictures on screen.
- Cleans lenses and maintains and performs minor repairs on projectors and equipment or notifies maintenance personnel to correct major malfunctions.
- Inspects and repairs faulty sections of film and rewinds film onto reels automatically or by hand.
- Coordinates equipment operation with presentation of supplemental material, such as music, oral commentary, or sound effects.
- Positions, installs, and connects auxiliary equipment, such as microphones, amplifiers, and lights.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
- Sitting
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
Related Majors
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| School Library Media | [ add ] |
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