Country Cinema

Is this the only movie house in Watertown CT?
Does anyone know “who” the owner is by chance?
How to get intouch with them maybe?

My late father told me he remembered this theatre opening as the Cameo when he lived in Watertown. According to him, it was a pre-existing auditorium which had been used for a variety of purposes including movies, but was rather lackluster. It was when refurbished as the Cameo that Watertown really felt they had a proper movie theatre. The person behind this refurbishing was a woman who also owned and operated one of the big theatres over in Waterbury, either the State or the Strand, I can’t remember which.

Watertown also had a first-rate movie screening facility in the auditorium of Taft School, a private prep-school for boys. In the Thirties, the son of one of the Skouras brothers was a student there, and so his father equipped the school’s auditorium with then state of the art projection equipment. It was at that time not unheard of for brand new movies to make a one-night stop at Taft School while en route from one nearby city to another.