"Billy Bitzer seated at Movie Projector."

ID: 5070 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/96501461/. ~ Creator: Photograph by Edward Lynch for The World Telegram & Sun. ~ Date: Created in the 1930s.

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"Billy Bitzer seated at Movie Projector."

A projectionist at work in the 1930s.

This file appears in: Projectionist Strike of 1914

Projectionist Strike of 1914

By Jocelyn Horner & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

The projectionist strike of 1914 is one of the earliest examples of film workers organizing in New Orleans. Few details are known about its origins or outcomes, but accounts of its unfolding offer insight into the shifting cultural landscape of the…