Earlier today, Slate published a brief spread of gorgeous photos from Joseph O. Holmes’ ongoing exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image, “The Booth: The Last Days of Film Projection.”
The exhibit’s themes are neatly summarized within the title: Intimacy and farewell, the former a natural byproduct of those small working spaces, the projection booths, often made homey with “family pictures [and] notes between the projectionists;” the latter an implied echo behind the word “last.”
“These things are going away, so I wanted to preserve what I think is a really beautiful setting,” said Holmes. “Those reels and the projectors and the film and the editing equipment almost feel like they could come from any decade in the last hundred years… It feels like tapping into something ancient.”
Which is precisely how your kids will feel when they flip through these photos, bound in a coffee-table book (should those still exist), only a few short years from now.
To view Slates’ full spread and interview with Holmes, click here, or keep scrolling for Holmes’ own moving-image paean to the projection booth, a 12-minute compilation of film clips where the space serves as a key setting, below:
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