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BOXOFFICE STATISTICS
NOTE — A preliminary statement from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reveals that there were 2,360 movie theatres of every type in 1950 and that 245,020,000 admis¬ sions yielded total receipts of $86,400,000 — a gain of eight per cent at the boxoffice. Because these are not final figures they have not been used in the table which follows.
Year
No. of Theatres
Receipts
Paid
Admissions
1930
907
$38,479,500
1933
762
24,954,200
1934
796
25,338,100
107,354,509
1935
859
27,173,400
117,520,795
1936
956
29,610,300
126,913,547
1937
1,044
32,499,300
133,668,450
1938
1,130
33,635,052
137,381,280
1939
1,183
34,010,115
137,898,668
1940
1,229
37,858,955
151,590,799
1941
1,240
41,369,259
161,677,731
1942
1,247
46,461,097
182,845,765
1943
1,265
52,567,989
204,677,550
1944
1,298
53,173,325
208,167,180
1945
1,323
55,430,711
215,573,267
1946
1,477
59,888,972
227,538,798
1947
1,693
62,865,279
220,857,594
1948
1,950
69,657,248
222,459,224
1949
2,200
78,559,779
232,998,545
The above
figures do
not include drive
in theatres, legitimate
theatres or Itinerant exhibitors. Nor do they include amusement taxes. They include the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which are serviced from British Columbia. Newfoundland is included for the first time in 1949, the year it became Canada's tenth province. Its 45 theatres had receipts amounting to $857,982 and paid admissions totalling 2,665,032.
The 1946-47-48-49 totals include only those operations classified as theatres — permanent places where films are shown as compared with places which see movies only when the projectionist arrives carrying his equipment and departs the same way. The latter are Itinerants and these took in $494,858 in 1949, compared with $428,303 in 1948, $450,835 in 1947 and $614,285 in 1946. Of the 1949 total. Itinerants using 35 mm. took in $44,197, and those offering 16 mm. grossed $450,661.
In 1949 there were 30 drive-ins, with total accommodations for 15,924 cars, and these admitted 3,091,314 persons and grossed $1,392,760, compared with 15 in 1948, which accommodated 9,975 cars, and had 1,595,947 admissions for a gross of $658,641; seven in 1947, which ac¬ commodated 5,438 cars and had 670,583 admissions for a gross of $274,325. The government report did not give statistics on 1946, when three were opened.
Combination of the three sources of theatre receipts shows that Canada's boxoffice total in 1949 was $80,447,397 for 237,716,497 ad¬ missions. Not included in these figures are the receipts or attendance at movies shown in theatres whose main sources of revenue was stage per¬ formances, of which there were six. These theatres were not asked to break down their reports. The combined total for 1948 was $70,144,192 — $10,303,205 under the 1949 one.
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