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16 MM. OPERATIONS SINCE 7946
All receipts in the tables below do not include amusement tax and the Dominion Bureau of Statistics has divided 16 mm. exhibition into two fields— theatre and Itinerant The theatre field has two sections, private and Community Enterprises, the latter being non-profit situations operated by local social and business groups. The theatre figures follow:
Yeor
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
Theatres 98 163 331 479 625 646 677 712 703
Admissions
1,017,462
1,307,489
2,158,153
2,726,646
3,368,192
3,782,045
3,915,061
4,484,329
4,047,631
Receipts
$ 276,802 381,834 629,778 829,543 1,017,297 1,186,543 1,249,329 1,514,762 1,438,403
Rentals
Here are the figures for the Itinerant field. Included in the admissions and receipts are those of the two Itinerants who used 35 mm. equipment, these not having been given separately by the DBS:
Year
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
Operators
275 233 157 167 171 166 156 150 141
Admissions
2,221,442
1,508,867
1,370,935
1,483,170
1,546,572
1,611,626
1,487,420
1,381,655
1,106,070
Receipts
564,380
412,828
382,525
450,661
456,272
486,243
495,584
468,562
385,682
Rentals
In the following figures both the above tables are consoidated. Theatres and operators are added together to show the total and the figures for receipts and admissions are fin
... _ n..n:»»r Rentals
Year Exhibitors Admissions
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
373
396
488
646
796
812
833
862
844
3,238,904
2,816,356
3,529,088
4,209,816
4,914,764
5,393,671
5,402,481
5,865,984
5,153,701
Receipts
$ 841,182 794,662 1,012,303 1,280,204 1,473,569 1,672,786 1,744,913 1,983,324 1.824,085
Rentals
$1,173,170
1,180,170
1,444,872
1,684,953
1,713,813
1,889,461
2,281,540
2,411,244
2,942,042
(Since 1950 the Dominion Bureau of ^‘^“/^^^en'VaTuS instead of actual figures in some instances and thes . eosj|y
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The percentages for the Community Enterprises . . f0b|e )
and then added to the theatre figures to give the totals used in the trtleo It will be noted that the rentals figure .sa'ways greater than Jh^» receipts — a seeming discrepancy. The exp ' ana ion^ fhe reeeipt figure
“Tom publu^hibm^S0^ yea” the DBS Report
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tions, also include rentals of films for telecasting.
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