As befitted a seaside resort town, Burntisland had a long and happy relationship with its three cinemas. The first was the Palace at the corner of Kirkgate and East Leven Street. It had a short life, a decade or so, and it closed in the 1920s. The main reason for its closure was the opening of the Porte Cinema around 1916. The shell of the Porte survives, a prominent reminder of one of Scotland's first purpose-built cinemas. Grandest of all, the new Palace Cinema of 1939 superseded the Porte. It stopped showing films around the early 1970s, and was destroyed by fire in 1985