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MONTGOMERY, ALA. ADVERTISER
Cir. D. 49.260— S. 56.489
1945 Film Daily Year Book Published; Is A Gold Mine Of Movie Informatwn
THE 1945 -FTLM DAILY YEAR BOOK OF MOTION PICTURES, Jack Alicoale. Editor; 27th Annual Edition, New York; 992 pages.
,,t„^^i a ^wealth of information is found between "*fRe pa^eg" Ot WisT' bul ky-^2-7'tj[v 'annual edTfion of FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK. Compiled by niotion picture trade publication, the Film Daily, the' book is a coinbination World WrMnac' 'JSncyclQpedia, and Wh^s_Who of the film industry, ^jorne oFTFTe facts contained between its covers is' positively amazing. Film companies spent :i;6,700,000 for stories last, year, the top price going to A. J. Cronin, $200,000 for THE GREEN YEARS bought by MGM.
At the end of 1944, the capital invested in the film industry amounted to $2,070,326,406. The number of people employed in the industry was 205.000 with a payroll of $382,726,750^ for the year. The industry spent $60,850,000 for advertising during the year, $51,000,000, an overwhelming proportion of the amount going tb newspapers. The picture companies completed 442 feature pictures in the year, with an average running time of 90 minutes in length.
There are 18,076 theaters showing "motion pictures in 10,18^ cities in the United States. The YEAR BOOK states that every week last year 95,000.000 citizens of this country bought a ticket to see a movie, with an average c-dmission price of 32.9 cents including taxes. There -is one motion picture theater open in Ih'^ Un»ited States for every 8,000 perKonSr
So we find that there were 804 actors under contract to the major studios, with 152 directors, and 490 writers. There were 5,200 registered extras with the Central Casting Corporation. The average daily placement of extras was 1,058. The extrss registered included 2,656 men. 2,281 women, and 306 children and racials.
O-f course those who received Oscars are listed. Ingrid Bergman, Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald being among the Academy Award winners. Also there is a list of winners back down the years which include Mary Pickford, Warner Baxter, Norma Shearer, George Arliss, Marie Dresler, Lionel Barry-' more, Janet Gaynor, Emil Jannings, Helen Hayes, Fredric March Katharine Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Victor McLaglen, Louise Rainer, Paul Muni, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Robert Donat, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Joan Fontaine, Gary Cooper, Greer Garson, James Cagney, Jennifer Jones.
Yes, it is a gold n>in? of inf o,rm^]5iE'^»tth iistrnsr vair"tKe pictures made since the birth of the industry. Strangest of all is the information, which shows that there are as many theaters^ exclusively for colored citizens in the Noi^th as there is in the South, thus disputing some rare old notions. The book -is beautifully printed on fine . paper with an unusually durable and handsome binding. — R. G.
THE FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK
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THE FILM DAILY
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NEW YORK CITY