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Boxoffice Statistics
In I960, says the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canadian movie exhibition rang up a cash figure of $78,183,715, of which $5,889,371 was for provincial amusement taxes. The nontax total, $72,294,344 compared with $75,513,974 in 1959, is a decrease of $3,219,630.
In the table below none of the figures includes Itinerant Operators but those dov/n 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 accounted for about two per cent of the receipts.
The drive-ins' share of the total take was $6,789,678, which does not include $524,189 in amus.ement taxes. There were 232 drive-ins operating in 1960, two less than 1959's 234, and they took in $354,247 less than in 1959. 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 (as defined by the DBS) and drive-ins for receipts, admissions and amusement taxes were:
578.183,715, 117,734,361 and 55.889,371
The following table includes the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which are serviced from British Columbia. Newfoundland is included for the first time in 1949, the year it 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
1959
1,749
75,513,974
128,859,395
1960
1,659
72,294,344
117,734,361
Denotes that
the DBS for
♦he 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 give an approximate total of $83,355,716. Similarly, in 1958 it would add $1,627,860> to make the total $83,020,938, in 1959 it would add $1,510,278 to bringi the total to $77,024,252, and in 1960 it would add $1,445,886 to make the total $73,740,220i.
(These are the latest figures available from the DBS)
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