Paramount Theatre

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PHOTO © Paul Lemmon

PHOTO features The Paramount Theatre Oakleigh projection booth, showing pioneering projectionist Ken Lemmon tending his Westrex arcs. Ken Lemmon entered the cinema industry in 1925, and for a lifetime, from silent movies to the advent of sound, practiced the art of showing pictures. Paul Lemmon explains that during the 60’s & until the theatres closure, his dad Ken Lemmon, worked together with long time friend Sid Smith, and shared part time duties running the projection booth at The Paramount for Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures. Ken & Sid screened Greek, Indian, German and Turkish films on Western Electric projectors, learning snippets of these foreign languages as they went. Ken actually undertook a Greek language course to expand his vocabulary of stories and images that he monitored through the ports in the Paramount projection booth – Contributed by Greg Lynch –