Flatpack Festival
Film for all the senses

Is That a Woman In the Box?

Sunday 9th April, 2017

Flatpack Hub (Old) | 14:00 - 15:30

Very rarely do we imagine that the person working away in the box behind us might be a woman.

When we think of cinema projectionists our mind might conjure up images of Buster Keaton wrapped in celluloid, or Alfredo chopping out kisses in Cinema Paradiso. Very rarely do we imagine that the person working away in the box behind us might be a woman, and yet there have been female projectionists throughout the history of British cinema. From the ‘projectionettes’ of the two world wars right up to the present day, this audio-visual talk by Dr Rebecca Harrison (University of Glasgow) and Dr Richard Wallace (University of Warwick) will reveal the hidden history of the women who have worked in this typically masculine space.

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