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.

One of our writers knows all too well that movie presentation is a dying art, having worked as a projectionist for six years ...

On a recent afternoon, Somerville Theatre projectionist David Kornfeld was waiting for his cue. Kornfeld peered out from the booth’s port window, watching the 35mm print of “Fear and Loathing in Las ...

In a digital world, it can be difficult to understand the hype around movies released in 70 millimeter. The impact of raw, uncompressed moving image gets lost in translation on our devices, exchanged ...

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 ...