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16 MM. OPERATIONS SINCE 1940
Year Operators Admissions Receipts Rentals 1940 85 680,054 $ 159,346 $————_1941 13 558,595 131,267 ————_ 1942 84 617,027 164,109
1943 88 820,329 230,404 —_———_ 1944 116 1,189,223 286,008 967,179 1945 162 1,531,345 345,334 1,198,016
The figures for 1943 and earlier include the amusement tax, from 1944 they are the net receipts. In 1946 the Dominion Bureau of Statistics divided 16 mm, exhibition into two fields— theatre and Itinerant. The theatre figures follow:
Year Theotres Admissions Receipts Rentals 1946 98 1,017,462 $ 276,802 1947 163 1,307,489 381,834 1948 331 2,158,153 629,778 1949 479 2,726,646 829,543 1950 625 3,368,192 1,017,297 1951 646 3,782,045 1,186,543 1952 677 3,915,061 1,249,329 1953 712 4,484,329 1,514,762
Here are the figures for the Itinerant field. Included in the admissions and receipts are those of the four Itinerants who used 35 mm. equipment, these not having been given separately by the DBS:
Year Operators Admissions Receipts Rentals 1946 275 2,221,442 $ 564,380 1947 233 1,508,867 412,328 1948 157 1,370,935 382,525 1949 167 1,483,170 450,661 1950 171 1,546,572 456,272 1951 166 1,611,626 486,243 1952 156 1,487,420 495,584 1953 150 1,381,655 468,562
In the following figures both the above tables are consolidated. Theatres and operators are added together to show the total number of both, and the totals for receipts and admissions are final:
Year Exhibitors Admissions Receipts Rentals
1946 373 3,238,904 $ 841,182 $1,173,170 1947 396 2,816,356 794,662 1,180,170 1948 488 3,529,088 1,012,303 1,444,872 1949 646 4,209,816 1,280,204 1,684,953 1950 796 4,914,764 1,473,569 1,713,813 1951 812 5,393,671 1,672,786 1,889,461 1952 833 5.402.481 1,744,913 2,281,540 1953 862 5,865,984 1,983,324 2,411,244
(Since 1950 the Dominion Bureau of Statistics has used percentages instead of actual figures in some instances and these have been calculated by the Canadian Film Weekly in order to give totals which can be easily compared with those of previous years. An example of this occurs in the 1952 and 1953 figures in the theatre section of the above table. In 1953 thero is listed 712 situations, of which 519 are community enterprises whose returns are giyen by the DBS as percentages of the combined 16 and 35 mm. yield, and 193 theatres whose returns, given in actual figures, is $685,208. The percentages for the community enterprises were broken down into amounts and then added to the theatre figures to give the totals used in the table.)
It will be noted that the rentals figure is always greater than that of receipts—a seeming discrepancy. The explanation is that rentals from all sources, including non-theatrical, go into the total, while the receipt figure is from public exhibitions only. This year the DBS report gave $2,022,112 as theatrical rentals and $389,132 as the non-theatrical yield.
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