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HOLLYWOOD STATISTICS
By
^^^^.i^^M RALPH WILK ^^^^^^^M
W^est Coast Representative, The Film Daily
It is estimated that production costs for the 1937-38 season will reach 3165,000.000. Hollywood's total annual payroll is $91,000,000, with 28,000 persons being given employment in the production colony.
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' Hollywood's bill for supplies, including lumber, cement and studio maintenance costs is 545,000,000. The percentage of the production dollar spent in Los Angeles and vicinity is 28 per cent.
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^ 588 pictures will be produced on the West Coast during the 1937-38 season. Approximately 27G different industries, arts and crafts are involved in the making of a single motion picture.
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* During 1937, 665 actors held term contracts with major studios, while contract directors numbered 174. and writers 357. The average number of extras given employment daily is 963.
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' The studio investment in Hollywood represents S 108.000.000.
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^1 Seventy per cent of the world movie fare emanates from Hollywood.
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H The production dollar is divided as follows: cast, 25 per cent; extras, bits and characters, 5 per cent; director, 10 per cent; director assistants, 2 per cent; comeraman and crew, 1.5 per cent; lights, 2 per cent; makeup, hairdressers and supplies, 0.9 per cent; teachers, 0.2 per cent;
' crew and labor, 1.2 per cent; story preparation, 7 per cent; story costs, 5 per cent; costumes and designers, 2 per cent; sets and art directors, 12.5 per cent; stills and photographs, 0.4 per cent; cutters, 1 per cent; film negative, 1 per cent; tests, 1.2 per cent; insurance, 2 per cent; sound — engineering and negatives, 3.1 per cent; publicity, transportation, research, technical,
I miscellaneous, 2 per cent; indirect costs, 15 per cent.
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