projection booth

noun

: a booth in a theater or hall for housing and operating a projector and especially a movie projector

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The Londoner, which started charging for subscriptions on January 15th, covered the cinema dispute with an atmospheric post, describing the whirring in the theatre’s projection booth, coming from its Cinemacanica Victoria 8 dual-gauge projector. — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025 The same goes for everyone working the house: There’s a vampire in the projection booth, a vampire working the lights, a vampire striking up the band, all of them in exaggerated fakey-fake vampire makeup. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 May 2024

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First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of projection booth was in 1917

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“Projection booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/projection%20booth. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

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