Quote Originally Posted by Janke View Post
Who will press the button?
Several years ago, when I was making tentative enquiries about working part-time as a projectionist at a local cinema, I was told that the process of starting and stopping the projectors was all controlled by computer.

I thought, surely it still requires someone to thread the film and fix it if it breaks.

No doubt, if digital photography hadn't come along, cinemas would have had a computer-controlled robot to do all that.

At least a robot could ignore the audience's booing and stamping feet when the film broke.

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