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Boxoffice Statistics
In 1955, says the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canadian movie exhibition rang up a cash figure of $105,349,811, of which $10,870,348 was for provincial amusement taxes. The non-tax total, $94,479,463, compared with $105,515,563 in 1954, is a decrease of $11,036,100. The drive-ins' share was $5,749,623, which does not include amusement taxes of $600,565.
There were 3,393 places of all types where films were shown, with 1,944 being regular theatres, 242 drive-ins, 616 community enterprises and 590 halls.
Paid admissions, of 203,909,078 numbered 33,355,816 less than in 1954, 11,521,134 being to drive-ins, a decrease of 859,112 from the previous year.
Combining all sources of theatre receipts and admissions, the figures show Canada's grand totals in 1955 without amusement tax, as
$94,479,463 and $203,909,078
To get the actual total of the amount spent by the public for motion pic¬ ture entertainment in 1955 the amusement tax for that year should be added. The tax figure and the overall total which included it were respectively
$10,870,348 and $105,349,811
In the table below only Itinerant Operators, who took in $341,439 in receipts for 945,176 admissions in 1955 are excluded and receipts and ad¬ missions from all other sources are given. From 1946 on the table below includes drive-ins, the first of which was opened in Canada that year.
Year
1930
1933
Theatres
907
762
Receipts
$ 38,479,500 24,954,200
Admissions
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
1940
1,229
37,858,955
151,590,799
1943
1,265
52,567,989
204,677,550
1941
1,240
41,369,259
161,677,731
1942
1,247
46,461,097
182,845,765
1939
1,183
34,010,115
137,898,668
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
63,139,604
221,528,177
1948
1,950
70,315,889
224,055,171
1949
2,200
79,953,539
236,017,859
1950
2,387
86,249,752
240,824,982
1951
2,440
95,833,340
250,547,499
1952
2,500
104,963,599
261,475,867
1953
2,749
108,603,966
257,965,182
1954
2,813
105,129,881
236,158,824
1955
2,803
94,138,024
202,963,902
The above figures include the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which are
serviced from British Columbia. Newfoundland was included for the first time in 1949, the year it became Canada's tenth province.
ITINERANT OPERATORS: These are defined as
projectionists who carry
their equipment with regular schedule.
them and
travel from place
to place, usually on a
(Table
of drive
in statistics on
page 33)
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