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Personal memories of Toronto's movie houses of the past, with stories of their communities Takes a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood approach to Toronto's historic cinemas Author Doug Taylor includes amusing anecdotes about the old theatres, including now-quaint demands from historic film censors and the theatre inspectors who enforced the restrictive laws of former decades. Full of trivia like why Toronto theatres used to be banned from selling popcorn or candy, infamous movie censors, and where Torontonians used to go to see the most movies By the author of Toronto Theatres and the Golden Age of the Silver Screen