The Projected Picture Trust

Narrow gauge screening room construction

Published
August, 2025

Our next big project is to build a narrow/small gauge film (8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm) and video screening room, as we currently do not have this facility at Dean Clough. Never thought we would “twin” Dean Clough and add an extra screen! Just like back in the 1970s!

The first image here shows the area we are turning into the new screen which will be for narrow gauge and video screenings. The area is quite damp and has an uneven York Stone floor.

An uneven concrete floor

The metal end wall panels were removed and old pallets used to raise the floor above the flags by cutting and packing them to create a level sub-floor. 

Two men standing over wooden pallets laid on the concrete floor
Two men laying wooden pallets on a hard floor
Three men cutting a wooden pallet to size for the floor
A man using a power tool on a wooden pallet on a hard floor

Once the floor was completed it was treated with wood preservative before the finished damp proof floor panels were laid.

A man in a blue overcoat painting wooden pallets on the floor with brown paint
Pallets attached to a floor to form a level surface
Chipboard panels laid on top of a pallet floor

A new stud wall was built and fitted at what will become the screen end and similarly one for the front wall of the projection area. 

A man kneeling on the floor, using power tools to construct a wooden stud wall
A man holding a constructed wooden stud wall vertical
A basement area with the beginnings of a stud wall being constructed.

The old electrics were removed before fitting the joists for the projection room floor.

A man in a blue shirt, removing electrics and wiring from a ceiling
A man screwing on floor joists to a stud wall
Three floor joists attached to the floor
Floor joists attached to studs on the floor
Floor joists completed, viewed from the other side of a stud wall

Once the joists were in, the floor could be fitted to the area that will become the projection room.

Floor boards lying on top of floor joists.
A man with a circular saw, cutting floorboards to size
A man screwing in floorboards
Floorboards complete and attached to floor joists

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