Film Weekly year book of the Canadian motion picture industry (1951)

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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. 56