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CANADA’S FIRST MOTION PICTURE TRADE PAPER
ESTABLISHED 1915
MOVING PICTURE
Cable
Raydigest
Subscription $5.00 per year
FORTIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATION 1915-54
NOW IN ITS 40th YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Every week — Saturday — 52 copies a year
Hermant Bldg.
21 Dundas Square Toronto, Ontario
EMpire
8-8696
JAY L. SMITH
Publisher & Editor
MAX CHIC
Associate Editor
Advertising rates on application
DRIVE-IN THEATRE STATISTICS
Yeor
No.
Car Cap.
Admissions
Receipts
1954
43
— Press
time Can. Film Weekly Figures —
1953
182
— No figures issued vet for
this year —
1952
104
50,497
8,379,586
$4,409,426
1951
82
40,520
6,554,572
3,347,670
1950
60
31,523
4,943,000
2,290,679
1949
30
15,924
3,019,314
1,393,760
1948
15
9,975
1,595,947
658,641
1947
7
5,438
670,583
274,325
1946
3
— No figures were given for
this year —
1952 DRIVE-IN STATISTICS BY PROVINCES
Province
No.
Car Cap.
Seat Cap. Admissions
Receipts
PEI
2
*
* *
*
NS
3
*
★ *
*
NB
4
1,195
310 154,776
$ 78,894
ONT.
52
27,573
100 4,196,492
2,228,257
MAN.
7
4,521
— 647,115
333,330
SASK.
13
4,269
150 722,661
377,097
ALTA.
8
3,945
225 1,129,440
619,448
BC
15
6,104
524 1,377,899
688,408
TOTALS 104
50,497
1,309 8,379,586
$4,409,426
NOTE: * indicates figures are withheld to avoid disclosing individual operations
but these
are included in
the totals.
Two
provinces did not
have drive-in
s — Quebec and Newfoundland. The former
has none
because they are
banned by provincial legislation.
Amusement Taxes collected on drive-in admissions were $57,702 in 1947;
$131,124
in 1948; $245,094 in 1949; $300,028 in 1950; $406,611
in 1951; and
$540,390
in 1952.
Information used here
is from the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics, with the
exception
of the 1953 total
and the number in 1954.
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