Highlands Cinemas
4131 Kawartha Lakes County Road 121,
Kinmount,
ON
KOM 2AO
4131 Kawartha Lakes County Road 121,
Kinmount,
ON
KOM 2AO
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The Highlands Cinemas first opened as a 58-seat single-screener in 1979. It first started life with 16mm projection but was upgraded to 35mm projection in 1984. A second 60-seat screen and a small projector museum was added in 1986, followed by a third 80-seat screen in 1988, a fourth screen with more museum space and additional bathrooms in 1995, a fifth screen by the late-1990s, and more museum space in 2000.
The museum also features a 1940s 35mm projector formerly owned by Irving Berlin.
Turner Classics just showed a documentary, “Movie Man”, about the owner. It would seem only one auditorium is showing films. The rest house the ever expanding museum.
The address is 4131 Kawartha Lakes County Rd 121.
I’ve been there. It is probably one of the most rewarding visits I’ve ever made to a museum. Keith loves cinema and film. I’ve traveled around the world and have never found anything like it. The lobby displays are very unusual, not just projection machinery but astonishing poster and lobby card displays, and other memorabilia. The theaters are remnants of theaters long gone, beautiful arc deco, neuveau styles that decorated the now deceased great movie palaces across Canada and the United States. Do yourself a grand favor. Go early, see a film, and stay late. The community is very small, very quaint. You’ll find yourself spending hours in the theaters and lobby.
Respectfully,
Roy H. Wagner ASC
director of photography
member and officer of the Aamerican Society of Cinematograpahers
member and Science and Technology Committee member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences