From the Sheldon Archives
1950s Campus Theater Movie Programs
Virtual Exhibit
The Campus Theater, a motion picture venue, began operation in the remodeled Lockwood’s Restaurant on Main Street, Middlebury in 1936. According to the 1956 edition of the Yearbook of Motion Pictures, the Campus Theater was associated with Graphic Theaters Circuit and had a seating capacity of 674. It was later remodeled and converted into a two-house movie theater and reopened in the fall of 1990. Today it is known as the Marquis Theater.
The Sheldon Museum’s Stewart-Swift Research Center has a collection of programs from the Campus Theater and other Addison County theaters. Continue reading to see what films people were watching in Middlebury in the 1950s!
Campus Theater, Middlebury, VT. Photograph by Christopher Irion, 1979. Collection of Henry Sheldon Museum.
Advertisements for the Theater in the Addison Independent Newspaper
