Cinema Cartier

This page is currently pathetic. Although the associated photo page has almost nothing but images of the original 1928 theater, the description is a single paragraph about the single-screen mini-cinema that was installed in the building some years after the original theater was closed. Multiple sources I’ve come across indicate that the Cinema Cartier has been operating as a multiplex for more than a decade now, this English translation of the theater’s French Wikipedia page saying that two new screening rooms were added in 2012, and that these were doubled to six in 2014. The current number appears to be eight, though I couldn’t swear to it. What is clear is that the official web site shows as many as eleven shows scheduled in a day, which certainly wouldn’t be happening with only one screen, or probably not even with six.

In any case, when the description is updated a bit of information is available in the Wikipedia article, including the fact that the house was operated by Famous Players for some time, until it was leased by independent operator Roland Smith in 1972, and that the original architects were Wilfrid Lacroix and Jean-Charles Drouin. The Cartier, though it has not operated continuously the entire time, is now nearly a century old, and was for almost six decades one of Quebec City’s leading cinemas. It deserves a better page than this.