Peterborough truly always had its mix of “amusements” — even in the days of Canada West.
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The travelling cinematographe comes to town — and other motion pictures follow. Electrical exhibits are the order of the day.
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Upstart motion picture theatoriums: Colloseum, Wonderland, Crystal, Royal, and Princess. The Grand Opera House shows moving pictures from the start.
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Amidst the Great War and its devastation, the Empire Theatre opens. The city is alive with Pickford and Chaplin — and five theatres (some of them changing names) showing motion pictures.
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The glory days of silent film in the roaring twenties. The Regent and Capitol open; the Royal closes; the Grand Opera House shows its last motion picture.
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Sound arrives on the cusp of the Great Depression; but then so too do the Marx Brothers (on screen) and Marie Dressler and countless others — as the promo maintains, “movies . . . are your best entertainment.”
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The Centre Theatre arrives, along with the war — and an Examiner editor named Robertson Davies. The audience grows.
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The Regent, Centre, and Capitol go . . . the Odeon and Paramount arrive (along with television).
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The shift to multiple screens and multiplexes in an age of corporate complications and the advent of video.
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