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Boxoffice Statistics
In 1958, says the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canadian movie exhibition rang up a cash figure of $88,848,320, of which $7,455,242 was for provincial amusement taxes. The non-tax total, $81,393,078, compared with $82,211,488 in 1957, is a decrease of $818,410.
In the table below none of the figures includes Itinerant Operators but those down to 1956 do include Community Enterprises and this must be borne in mind when comparisons are made. There were 506 of the latter in operation in 1956 and they account for about two per cent of the receipts.
The drive-ins' share of the total take was $6,254,410, which does not include $504,281 in amusement taxes. There were 232 drive-ins operating in 1958, three more than 1957’s 229, and they took in $529,099 more in 1958 than in 1957. In the table below drive-in figures are included from 1946 on, that being the year the first one opened.
Therefore, the figures for Canada's "Regular" theatres (cs defined by the DBS) and drive-ins for receipts, admissions and amusement taxes were:
$88,848,320, 146,483,741 end $7,455,242
The following table includes the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which
are serviced from 1
British Columbia. Newfoundland is
included for the first time
in 1949, the year H
1 became Canada's tenth province.
Year
Theatres
Receipts
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
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
2,808
93,819,187
201,247,408
1956
2,592
87,516,895
177,615,767
1957
1,945
82,211,488
156,701,458
1958
1,854
81,393,078
146,483,741
♦Denotes that
the DBS for
the first time in
1957
dropped Community
Enterprises, which
usually had
about 2% of the
receipts. Adding 2%, or
$1,644,228, to the
1957 receipts
for purposes of comparison would gito an
approximate total
of $83,855,716.
Similarly, in 1958 i
it would add $1,627,860 to
make the total $83,020,938.
NOTE: Just prior to our going to press the DBS
issued estimated statistics
for 1959 based on
returns from
75 per cent of regular
theatres. These would
seem to indicate
that receipts
will drop by 10.3
per
cent to $67,425,925,
admissions decrease by 12.7 per
cent to 119,064,660
and
1 amusement taxes fall
by 13.9 per cent to $5,983,442. The DBS warns, however.
that these preliminary
figures should serve only as indicators and not as
an
exact account of the
year's operations.)
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