@aredridel *gestures at film cinema*

It used to be that every screen had to have a Projectionist. They were all union, and paid well, so there were very few multi-screen theaters.

Then platter feed systems were invented and one lightly trained person could run 10+ screens simultaneously. By 2000 there weren’t enough projectionists to maintain unions.

Then the MPAA mandated a switch to digital cinema, fully automated. By 2010 the job title of Projectionist had all but vanished.