The Downtown Theatre
Eric VeilletteThe ongoing history of film exhibition in Toronto.
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"White Zombie" and the evolving language of film censorship
Bela Lugosi as Murder Legendre in White Zombie (1932).
Victor Halperin’s incredible White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi, premiered in Toronto on August 19, 1932, at the Loew’s Yonge Street Theatre just north of Queen Street.
I’ve been thi...
The College Playhouse
The College Playhouse, 344 College St., 1937. City of Toronto Archives: SC 488-1099.
The College Playhouse was never one of Toronto’s grand movie palaces. But like so many of the city’s smaller cinemas, the 450-seat theatre at 344 College...
Charlie Chaplin at the Eglinton Theatre
The Eglinton Theatre dressed as The Chaplin Theatre during a 15-month retrospective from 1971 to 1973. Credit: Canadian Film Digest, December 1972.
One of the striking things about newspaper ad-mats of the early 1970s is how site-specific...
Bob Huber memorial at the Revue Cinema
Bob Huber in 1968, while running a repertory programme at the Elektra Theatre. Source: Globe & Mail.
REMEMBERING BOB HUBER
Monday, June 15, 6:15PM (Doors at 5:45PM)
The Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Free admission
Anyone who...
The Downtown Theatre
The long-gone Yonge Street temple of schlock, shock and cheap thrills.
As much as I love highlighting the history of our forgotten theatres, it makes me sad that I never got to experience so many of them — I only moved to Toronto in 1999.
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Arts journalist & media producer in Toronto | Regular contributor to the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC/Radio-Canada | Author: “In the Dark: A history of moviegoing in Toronto” (ECW Press, 2027) | Editor: The Downtown Theatre | Franco-ontarien
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