I fucking love those movie scenes where the detective's at the library straight COOKING on a case. They're in the deep, dark corners of that puppy scraping up all sorts of info. When that newspaper projection thingy pops up and the camera zooms in on whatever old-timey newspaper they're looking at, you know shit's about to get real. I've always wanted to use one of those things. Sit in some dim-lit room, scroll through the 1926 Washington Post, squint, move closer when I find some article that'll help crack the case.
“Is that? No way. Mr. Jenkins and he's with... Holy shit...” ***Rustling in the darkness just beyond the projector thingy*** "Hello.... Debbie?... Is that you?"
Aside from the jump scare and my story’s antagonist watching from afar, I need this shit in my life.
Only problem, for the longest time, I had no idea what these newspaper projector scroll things that sat in the basement of libraries in some of my favorite movies were called. Figured that was step one. My Google searches were embarrassing: "Newspaper projector" "Library newspaper screen thing" "For the love of god what are those fucking things in movies where they look at old newspapers?"
I was desperate. Scrolling deep down Google images like I just googled "boobs" for the first time. Page 4, 5, nothing. Then, bang. I finally found it. Microfilm.
Microfilm? That's it? So underwhelming. I mean, this whole time I figured these things had some cool name that only ball knowers would know. Whatever, it's microfilm, and the “newspaper projection thing” I was searching for is just a microfilm reader. What a joke.
So yeah, I'm thinking my new Move is to head to my local library and grind on some microfilm. Politely ask the librarian to snap a pic of me. Add some sick caption, "Chase the quiet until the silence knows your name." “Is that Dolan knee deep in some unsolved 1976 missing persons case? Holy bag.”
Script below. I’m not fucking around.
