Working as a projectionist at a cinema you every once in a while experience some catastrophes or plainly weird mishaps which are amusing tales among colleagues. One such colleague, Richard, who worked at my competitor's cinema, told me this story.
A university professor had requested a special screening of the infamous Belgian experimental movie Vase de Noces for one of his film classes, actually a quite unusual choice, since the movie is definitely not for the squeamish. It was on an afternoon, and Richard opened the cinema, let the professor with his class in and then started the movie. Usually a projectionist doesn't watch every screening, but it is advisable to check the screen and the projector every so often.
After about 15 minutes Richard looked inside the auditorium and noticed that the sound was there, but the screen was black, no picture! In panic he ran up to the projection room and fixed the problem: he had simply forgotten to lift the clap which releases the light (and the picture) into the auditorium.
As so often, nobody had complained, so Richard decided not to mention or apologize for the incident, if nobody else mentioned it to him. After the screening was over the professor held a long discussion in the auditorium with his class about the movie.
Since Richard knew how far out the movie was, he got curious after a while and silently slipped into the auditorium to hear what they were talking about.
The topic was about the use of blackness as an artistic cinematic device!
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