projection room

noun

1. projection booth.

2. a room with a projector and screen for the private viewing of motion pictures.

projection room

noun

1. a small room in a cinema in which the film projectors are operated

Word History and Origins

Origin of projection room¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

She was in a projection room at the Warner Bros. lot with other cast members when director George Stevens “stood up and all the light drained out of him,” Baker told The Times in 1996.

From Los Angeles Times

We went upstairs to what used to be a projection room.

From Los Angeles Times

The projection room is now a huge studio apartment complete with new appliances.

From Los Angeles Times

Crowe, in Italy for the Rome Film Festival, dropped into the Vatican's small projection room - which seats only about 50 people - to greet the audience between two back-to-back screenings.

From Reuters

"When I was growing up in the 1970s, one of the first memories I have is of my Dad converting a garage so it had eight little cinema seats which he repurposed from one of the old cinemas in Plymouth, with a little projection room and a fishing line which he would use to open and shut the curtain in front of the screen," he said.

From BBC