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BOXOFFICE STATISTICS
(LOOK BELOW TABLE FOR FINAL FIGURES)
Year Theatres Receipts Admissions ~ 1930 907 $38,479,500
1933 762 24,954,200
1934 796 25,338,100 107,354,569 1935 859 27,173,400 117,529,795 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 62,865,279 220,857,594 1948 1,950 69,657,248 222,459,224 1949 2,200 78,559,779 232,998,545 1950 2,387 83,959,073 235,881,982 1951 2,440 92,485,670 245,378,442
(Note: The 1951 figures arrived while this Year Book was on the presses and there was no time to work out comparisons with previous years, They do not include drive-ins or itinerants and are part of an advance release of limited information. Full information will follow in several months. DRIVE-INS: There were 82 drive-ins, an increase of 20, and they took in $3,347,670, an increase of $1,056,991 over 1950. ITINERANTS: 167 Itinerants grossed $486,243 from 1,611,626 admissions, an increase of $22,638. COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES: 632, an increase of 36, got $1,499,560 from 4,860,700 admissions, a jump of $248,249. AMUSEMENT TAX: Total for Canada was $11,887,226. BOXOFFICE TOTAL, combining both tax and basic expenditure by the public, was $108,206,809.)
COMBINED STATISTICS UP TO AND INCLUDING 1950
The above figures do not inciude drive-in theatres, legitimate theatres or Itinerant exhibitors. Nor do they include amusement taxes. They include the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which are serviced from British Columbia, Newfoundland was included for the first time in 1949, the year it became Canada’s tenth province. Its 45 theatres had receipts amounting to $857,982 and paid admissions tota!ling 2,665,032 in 1949 and in 1950 its 38 theatres had receipts of $863,734 and admissions amounting to 2,829,182,
The 1946-47-48-49-50 totals include only those operations classified as theatres—permanent places where films are shown as compared with places which see movies only when the projectionist arrives carrying his equipment and depa:ts the same way. The latter are Itine-ants and these took in $463,605 compared with $494,858 in 1949, $428,303 in 1948, $450,835 in 1947 and $614,285 in 1946. Of the 1950 total, four itinerants using 35 mm. took in $7,333, and 171 offering 16 mm. grossed $456,272.
In 1950 there were 62 drive-ins, with total accommodations for 31,523 cars, and these admitted 4,943,000 persons and grossed $2,290,679 compared with 30 in 1949, which accomodated 15,924 cars, and had 3,091,314 admissions for a gross of $1,392,760; 15 in 1948, which accommodated 9,975 cars, and had 1,595,947 admissions for a gross of $658,641; seven in 1947, which accommodated 5,438 cars and had 670,583 admissions for a gross of $274,325. The government report did not give statistics on 1746, when three were opened.
Combination of the three sources of theatre recciots shows that Canada’s boxoffice total in 1950 was $85,713,357 for 242,396,679 admissions. The combined total for 1949 was $80,447,397 — $6,255,960 under the 1950 one, Not included in these figures are the receipts or attendance at movies shown in theatres whose main source of revenue was stage performances, which the Dominion Bureau of Statistics did not touch in its motion picture industry report.
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