Mr Parry started working as a projectionist in a cinema in Felixstowe when he was a teenager.

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The family of New Zealand projectionist and film collector Jack Murtagh sent the highly flammable prints to the organisation for safe keeping after his death in 1989.

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After reading it, the visitor will not linger in the city centre but scuttle past the Radcliffe Camera and Magdalen Tower, over the Cherwell, and on to the Ultimate Picture Palace, where a projectionist, solemnly dinner-jacketed, shows art-house movies to a tiny and devoted audience.

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