Roosevelt Room Projection Screen (matte white projection surface)

A large, taut matte‑white projection surface mounted on the Roosevelt Room presentation wall. The fabric reads light‑absorbing and evenly stretched to eliminate wrinkles, filling the room's presentation plane so images register crisply from the dais. Presenters set up an overhead projector and cast high‑contrast photos and slides onto it; characters step back, point, and visibly recoil as images flip from hero shots of Pluie to a grizzly, the screen commanding the room's attention.

2 appearances

Purpose

Serve as a projection surface for an overhead projector to display photos and slides as a visual aid during the conservation group's theatrical pitch.

Significance

Functions as the emotional focal point of the pitch: images on the screen drive the room's tonal shift, reveal Pluie's death, and enable C.J.'s abrupt political reframing—turning idealism into a budgetary question and collapsing the activists' persuasive strategy.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

Pluie Pitch — Wolves-Only Roadway vs. Political Reality

The white projection screen serves as the visual stage for Pluie's life and the wolves-only roadway renderings; it concentrates the presenters' theatricality and focuses C.J.'s reactions, turning images into political leverage.

Before: Set up and ready at the front of the Roosevelt Room, blank and awaiting slides.

After: Still in place, now displaying the grizzly image as the presenters pivot; its surface has hosted both emotional and ironic beats.

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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

Pluie's Death and C.J.'s Political Reframe

The white projection screen receives the projected photographs of Pluie and later the grizzly, dominating the room's visual field and forcing C.J. and attendees to confront the images as persuasive evidence.

Before: Set and blank, prepared for the presentation.

After: Displays the grizzly image as the presenters pivot; remains central to the room's visual focus.

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