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Doug Taylor (1938–2020) was a Canadian historian, professor, author and connoisseur of movie theatres. [1] [2] In two books, and multiple online articles, Taylor wrote about Toronto's history of beautiful cinemas. [3] He published a history of selected neighbourhoods in 2010, a book on Toronto lost landmarks in 2018.
Earliest purpose built cinema in Toronto. Bayview Theatre Leaside: 1936 1961 1 Later was a live theatre venue known as the Bayview Playhouse. Now a drug store. Beach Theatre The Beaches: 1919 1970 1 Remodeled into a shopping centre. Cineplex Cinemas Beaches (formally Alliance Atlantis Beaches) 1651 Queen Street East, Queen and Coxwell 1999 ...
The Eglinton Theatre, (or Eglinton Grand) is an event venue and cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [2] In 2016, it was designated a National Historic Site by Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. [3] Built in 1936, [4] the Eglinton became one of the best examples of the Art Deco-style in Canadian theatre design.
The Revue Cinema is a cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies. When news of its closure became public, a grass-roots community movement sprang up in order to save the cinema.
Mr. Taylor would later found a new chain of multiplex cinemas in 1979 with Garth Drabinsky, called Cineplex Entertainment. The Uptown was a favourite place to see films, always doing good business. It was the last remaining large-audience big-screen, old-style movie theatre still operating in downtown Toronto for Famous Players.
According to author Doug Taylor, it became the first cinema in Canada to have more than one auditorium. The venue was operated by the Famous Players chain. [4] In 1948, the Odeon Theatres chain built the Odeon Hyland cinema at 1501 Yonge Street, just south of the Hollywood Theatre. [2] In 1964, the film Mary Poppins played at the theatre for 44 ...
The cinema would host many of the most important films of its day. For major productions it would use reserved seating where patrons would buy specific seats ahead of time. [1] The cinema also helped introduce new technologies to Toronto such as CinemaScope, Cinerama and 70 mm film Dolby Stereo. [1] [2]
Shea's Hippodrome was a historic film and play theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Hippodrome was located in downtown Toronto, at the southwest corner of Albert and Bay streets (now Nathan Phillips Square). At its opening in 1914, it was the largest movie palace in Canada, and one of the largest vaudeville theatres in the world. [2]