Working as a projectionist at Grafton-Stovall Theater is one of the most interesting jobs available on campus. While UPB takes care of the business and logistics of choosing, licensing and ordering movies, it is our job to prepare the films … Continue reading
I get asked all the time about how we get our movies and what goes in to scheduling them. It’s all pretty simple! Swank Motion Pictures is a company that provides pre-release movies to college campuses (pre-release meaning just after … Continue reading
There is one smell with the ability to ignite a fire of craving and hunger in everyone’s stomach and that smell wafts from Grafton popcorn. Made on-site, this locally heated popcorn is promised to be fresh and salty. The popcorn … Continue reading
Yes, I have to submit table tents every. Single. Week. It may seem like a lot, and it is, but when you have a method like I do, its just one more thing to check off of your “To Do” … Continue reading
Did you know that showing a movie in front of a group of people outside of a home setting is illegal? Any screening of a movie outside the home is considered a public performance and requires a license. Even if … Continue reading
Ever wonder what jobs University Program Board members do at Grafton-Stovall Theatre? Having been in the University Program Board since the Fall of 2011, I know the theatre pretty well and it happens to be one of my favorite places … Continue reading
Whenever I meet someone new, they always inquire about the strangely shaped scar on my hand. I never notice it unless people ask, but every time someone does I wish I had a better story to tell…
Like how I was lucky enough to spend the summer studying abroad, and how I left Hogwarts on a thestral and made the long trip from Scotland to Romania to study Dragons! I would have stopped overnight at Beauxbatons Academy to visit some friends and eventually traveled through the very forest that He Who Must Not Be Named once hid in exile in Albania on my way to Romania. My first day of dragon training, I picked up an infant dragon. Not knowing who I was, it burnt my hand leaving the mark that I now live with.
If only I could actually live in the world of Harry Potter! I can see myself running into the column between platforms nine and ten every year to get to Hogwarts and sipping on a butterbeer sitting in Hogsmeade over the weekend. I can’t wait to visit the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida but until then I’m so excited that I can live out my fantasy tonight at Grafton at 9:30. With Part 2 coming to theaters soon I am definitely going to take this opportunity to see Part 1 on the big screen again.
~Edward Bagsic, Film Committee
University Program Board 