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The Projection Booth

The Projection Booth is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Projection Booth rather than just read about it. In short: The Projection Booth is a podcast featuring discussions of films from a variety of genres with critical analysis. As of February 2021, more than 500 episodes had been released.

Key takeaways

The Projection Booth belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Projection Booth to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Projection Booth from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Projection Booth is a podcast featuring discussions of films from a variety of genres with critical analysis. As of February 2021, more than 500 episodes had been released. The show is hosted by Mike White, the director of Who Do You Think You're Fooling?. Guests on the show have included Jeff Goldblum, John Waters, Ed Harris, Luke Wilson, Chris Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Michael Murphy, Nicholas Meyer, William Friedkin, Julie Taymor, and Joe Dante.

Format Each show contains a discussion of a single main film. Sometimes other films that complement or contrast the main topic are discussed. Often, guest interviews are included. Guests have included other podcast hosts, authors, or people with particular insights on a given film or topic, and at times, the filmmakers themselves. Episode lengths vary; many are less than an hour, but episodes have reached up to seven hours. Some of the show's most popular episodes include shows on The Magnificent Ambersons, and Conan the Barbarian. While covering a wide array of films, the show has been criticized for occasionally dedicating episodes to obscure films not available on DVD.

History The podcast started when the original hosts, Mike White and Justin Bozung, were driving from Detroit to the 2010 B Movie Celebration in Franklin, Indiana and discussing their favorite, and least favorite, film podcasts. Bozung left the show after the Hickey & Boggs episode. After a series of guest co-hosts, Rob St. Mary became a semi-permanent co-host. St. Mary's first full-time show was the 29 February 2012 episode on Frankenhooker. He left his full-time spot following the 24 November 2015 episode on Shadow of a Doubt. The Projection Booth has been highlighted by The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, Filmmaker, and Mental Floss as one of the best film and movie podcasts available. Though not specifically a horror film podcast, The Projection Booth has been nominated multiple times for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.

Hosts Mike White is a writer from Detroit, Michigan, who started the Cashiers du Cinemart zine in 1994. Best known for his work Who Do You Think You're Fooling?, White has appeared in documentaries such as David Goodis: To A Pulp and The People vs. George Lucas. In 2003, White was part of the panel discussion at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear, "Misadventures in Horror Podcasting". The show also has a "Robohost", developed by Bell Laboratories. Robohost is a computer program that continuously updates with all episodes of The Projection Booth podcast as well as anything written about or said about the show on other podcasts. Robohost has made appearances on the episodes Auschwitz and American Mary.

Co-hosts Revolving co-hosts since 2014 include film critic and author Maitland McDonagh, David Kittredge, Chris Stachiw, Samm Deighan, Skizz Cyzyk, Chris Cummins, Heather "Boom Boom" Drain, and Kat Ellinger.

Former The show was formerly co-hosted by Rob St. Mary and Justin Bozung. St. Mary is a writer who worked at WDET Public Radio in Detroit. He produced the horror-comedy Tainted which was released via Troma Entertainment in 1998. After the publication of his book Re-Entry: The Orbit Book Anthology, he left full-time hosting but returns for select discussions. Bozung, also known as "Mondo Justin", was the creator of the Mondo Film & Video Guide. He was on episodes 1 (The Stunt Man) to episode 36 (Hickey & Boggs). He has also hosted his own podcast.

Related shows White is also the co-host of other podcasts including The Kolchak Tapes (focused on Kolchak: The Night Stalker), Dreams for Sale (focused on the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone), The Life & Times of Captain Barney Miller (focused on Barney Miller), and The Shabby Detective: Yet Another Columbo Podcast.

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External links

Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Projection Booth

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Projection Booth claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Projection Booth before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Projection Booth ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Projection Booth

In research: The Projection Booth appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Projection Booth in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Projection Booth is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2011 podcast debuts, Audio podcasts, Film and television podcasts, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Projection Booth outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Projection Booth in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Projection Booth means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Projection Booth out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Projection Booth in simple terms?

The Projection Booth is a podcast featuring discussions of films from a variety of genres with critical analysis. As of February 2021, more than 500 episodes had been released.

Why does The Projection Booth matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Projection Booth?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Projection Booth.