Introduction

Site History

This site was first created in late 1997, while I was at Loughbourgh University. It started as a way of saving bookmarks that were useful to me. Over time the site grew and developed. It was a collection of links, coursework material, and other bits and pieces. In 2000 I bought the Mad Cornish Projectionist domain name and the site was put up onto the server it is now hosted on. As the information and items on the site grew, particuarly in relation to cinema and projection, I decided that it would be better to split the sites. At this point all none cinema related material was moved to www.pjkinfo.co.uk. The section on www.peterjknight.co.uk.

Site Purpose and Objectives and Extra Information

I would like this site to become one of the first choices for anyone looking for anything relating to projectors or cinema. If you have any useful links or articles or comments which you think would be useful to this site, then please email me .

In order not to duplicate information which is available on other sites, this site tends to link to the relievant site, rather than creating it here. So for example Film Tech contains many manuals and pictures, which with the exception of material I have written would be silly for me to try and equal

This site does not include large numbers of animated gifs, sounds or video inorder to allow it to download at a reasonable speed.

No personnal data is collected on this site, but please take time to read the copyright information

You are welcome to link to this site. For more details please go to the FAQ section.

The Present

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Previously

I started projecting in November 1997 when I joined Flix - Loughborough Student Cinema at a general meeting. I had had a secret interest in cinema for a long time. I went along to the meeting to vote for the next terms films, only to find that they needed more projectionists. I found that my hand crept up when they asked for nominations.

I was voted on as an assistant projectionist. Over the next four months or so I was trained by the current head projectionist, who had been self taught. This gave me the basiscs of how to put a film on screen. In the February of that year I was voted on as Head Projectionist, a position I kept, officially and unofficially, until I gradutated in Summer 2000. During the time I was head projectionist, I taught myself a lot about projectionism. This was mainly through reading material on the Internet, the BKSTS Projectionists Manaual, joining the BKSTS and talking to people. While I was at Loughborough I was responsible for training up at least another eight projectionists. For a list of the equiment click here.

Currenly

I graduated in the Summer of 2000 and moved to London to work full time as a Librarian. While in London I have become a freelance projectionist in various venues, with my clients including:

  1. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
  2. Soho House
  3. Electic Cinema, Nottinghill
  4. Broadway Theatre, Catford
  5. Firmdale Hotels (Soho Hotel, Covent Garden Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel
  6. The Hospital
  7. UIP, Hammersmith
  8. BAFTA
  9. Wired, Charlotte Street.
  10. The Engima Cinema, Bletchley Park (volunteer work)
  11. Windsor Arts Centre

If you are need of a projectionist, then click here for more details, contacts, and my availabilty

I have had some experience of 70mm on a Victoria 8 changeover, Warwick Student Cinema.

I am a regular writer for Screen Trade Magazine

Photographs of cinemas I have worked at or visited can be viewed at my on line gallery by clicking here.

I am a member of the Cinema Technology Committee, Council Member 2009/2010 for the BKSTS, Cinema Theatre Association, member and volunteer at Bletchley Park for the Projected Picture Trust, Mercia