motion picture operators

Variously known in the late 1920s as the motion picture machine operator, motion picture operator or, simply, operator, these workers are better known today as projectionists.

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Picketing the New National Theater, Minneapolis November 15, 1917

Early Rumblings in Annual Labor Row July 8, 1927

Movie Operators Strike August 24, 1927

Chicago Exhibitors Close 350 Movie Theatres: Fight With Union Hits 400,000 Patrons August 30, 1927

Theater Strike as in Chicago Feared Here August 31, 1927

Chicago Movie Men See a Wider Tie-Up August 31, 1927

Movie Machine Operators Do Not Foresee Trouble September 1, 1927

St. Paul Theater Closed to Halt Musicians Row September 1, 1927

Stagehands Join Chicago Strikers September 2, 1927

Wage Increase Given Mill City Movie Operators September 2, 1927

Picture Operators Get Wage Increase; Sign One-Year Pact September 9, 1927

Sympathy Theater Strike Held Likely September 20, 1927

Picture Operators Join Stage Strike September 21, 1927

St. Paul Movie Operators Strike September 22, 1927

Twin City Theatrical Employees Forced Out September 22, 1927

Stage Employees Ask One Day Off During Week; Operators Out September 23, 1927

The Theater Strike September 27, 1927

100 Police and Special Agents Guard Theaters Against Terrorism October 11, 1927

Twin City Showman, Union Compromise to Settle Strike October 27, 1927

Theatre Strike Ends October 28, 1927

Twin City Strike Ends November 11, 1927