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FACTS ABOUT EXHIBITION
THEATRE STATISTICS: Since Jan. 1, 1963 eight new theatres, three of them drive-ins have opened and 32 audi¬ torium theatres and three drive-ins have closed, while three four-walled houses have burned. These figures bring the number of 35 mm. theatres operating in Canada, as of the end of Aug., to 1,573, of which 242 were ozoners. At the same point in 1962, there were 1,593 theatres operating, 238 of them drive-ins. In all of 1962 six new standard-type theatres and six driveins opened, 49 roofed-in houses and five drive-ins closed and four audi¬ torium theatres were burned.
SUNDAY MOVIES continue to spread. Ontario, which became the second province to show movies seven days a week, now has well over 70 communities where they are available and several others plan to hold ple¬ biscites this year. BC became Canada’s third province with Sunday movies when Vancouver voted for them and enabling legislation was passed early this summer. Independents began Sunday exhibition but union negotia¬ tion delayed the circuits until Septem¬ ber. Business opened strongly. Winni¬ peg, which voted overwhelmingly for Sunday shows found itself stymied when the Manitoba legislature refused to amend the act, although it changed it to permit Sunday sports and con¬ certs.
CAPITAL and repair expenditures for Canadian theatres in 1963 were estimated at $2,900,000, with the for¬ mer taking up $2,200,000 of that amount.
This is $600,000 higher than the 1962 forecast at this time last year.
PERCENTAGE of films from the USA submitted for showing in Ont¬ ario was 39.4 per cent in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1963, where in 1954 the figure was 68 per cent. The decline is due to the production of fewer films in the USA or by USA companies and the greater interest in films from Europe because of the tre¬ mendous immigration wave. Out of 512 features reviewed during the 1962-63 fiscal year 202 were from the USA.
CANADIANS attend movies eight times per year compared to 17 times in 1951, a Unesco survey shows. In 1951 Canada was fifth among the na¬ tions in moviegoing and it is now 25th. Hong Kong and Lebanon, with a rate of 22, are first, a position held by the USA in 1951 with 35.
REDUCTION of license fees by a number of municipalities heartened exhibitors, as did lower assessment values and cuts in provincial amuse¬ ment taxes. There seems to be a greater realization of the hardships of theatre operation on the part of provincial and municipal officials.
QUITE a number of closed theatres have reopened in small communities. Merchants miss the people the theatre brings to town and co-operatives form¬ ed to reopen theatres aren’t uncom¬ mon. Local newspapers have been giv¬ ing much space to support such activ¬ ities.
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