The film daily year book of motion pictures (1942)
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of these. There are a number of relatively small so-caJIed marginal theaters which come and go from time to time but are not considered in the above analysis and the importance of these if relatively insignificant. The estimated total seatins: capacity of fhryr theaters is approxiiiiatclv 5,000,000. while an estimate for the seating c«pacity of those not including Ireland would bp between 4.5 and 4.fi millions.
An estimate of the average admission price in motion picture theaters, based upon an analysis of a very large number of tickets is placed at 10.2 pence and the estimated total number of weekly admissions is placed at 23 million. On this basis total annual gross receipts would be more than fifty million sterling and a published cstiiii.-itc places the total at lort.v-six niillioiis. Official information is not available on the above but the data mentioned are believed to be quite sufficiently accurate to furnish a background for all necessary trade purposes. It must be noted, however, that these figures are based on pre-war data: no accurate estimate on cm-rent situation is available. It is possible present trends may even show a greater bulk attendance weekly than the peacetime norm, as show business appeared to be undergoing a new gold strike in the latter part of 1941. The effects of black-out and general restrictions, combined with continuous air raids of the 1940-41 Winter undoubtedly gave a serious setback to the box office, but the internal reaction to the lull which lasted from Spring till the end of the year more than offset that, leaving motion pictures at a peak of popularity as great as they have ever known.
Producers
LONDON
Argyle, British Productions, 21 Panton Street S.W.I.
British Lion Film Corp., 76 Wardour St., W.2.
British National Films, Ltd., Rock Studios, Boreham Wood, Elstree Herts.
Butcher's Film Service. Ltd.. 175 Wardour Street. W.l.
:;onqueror Films, 7, Park Lane, W.l.
Wembley Film Studio, Ltd., Empire Way, Wembley, Middlesex.
G. B. Instructional, Ltd.. Film House, Wardour St.. W.l.
Gainsborough Pictures, Ltd., Film House, War
dour St., W.l. Gaumont British Pictures Corp., Ltd., Film House
Wardour St., W.l. London Film Productions, Ltd., Denham, Bucks. Nettlefold Prod., Archibald. Hurst Grove. Walton
on -Thames.
Pathe Pictures, Ltd.. Film House, Wardour St. W.l.
Standard International Pictures, Ltd.. 199 Piccadilly. W.l.
Strand Film Co.. 5a Upper St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2.
Warner Bros., Teddington Studios, Teddington. Middlesex.
Widgey R. Newman Productions, Ltd., National
House, 60, Wardour Street, W.l. Associated British Pictures Corporation, Ltd.. Film
House, Wardour St., W.l. Liberty Films. Ltd.. 4. Golden Square, W.l. Two Cities Films. Ltd.. 1/4, 46. Bedford Court
Mansions, Bedford Avenue, W.C.I. Ambassador Films. Ltd., 179, Wardour Street, W.l. Viking Films Ltd., 107, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.l. Metropolitan Film Studios, Ltd.. Gladstone Road,
Southall.
Premier Stafford Productions, Ltd., Sound City.
Littleton Park, Middlesex. Welwyn Studios, Ltd., Welwyn Studios, Welwyn
Garden City, Herts. British Instructional Films, Ltd., Film House,
Wardour St.. W.l. D. & P. Studios, Ltd., Denham.
Q. & S. Films Limited, 127/133. Wardour Street. W.l .
Pascal Film Productions, Ltd., Denham Studloi,
Denham, Uxbridge, Mddx. Ealing Studios, Ltd., Ealing Green, W.5.
Metro-Qoldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd. Denham Studios, Denham Bucks.
Major Pictures, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath Bucks.
Associated Realist Film Producers. Ltd. 84 Sohn
Square, W.l. Capad, Ealing Studios. Ealing, W.6. Columbia British Productions. Ltd.. 139 Wardour
St.. W.l.
Embassy Pictures (Associated) Ltd., Sound City Shepperton.
Highbury Studios. Ltd.. 96, Highbury New Park. N.5.
Paramount British Productions, Ltd. 162 Wardour St.. W.l.
Pinebrook Ltd., Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath Bucks.
Riverside Studios Ltd., Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W.6.
Worton Hall Studios. Isleworth. Middlesex. British Aviation Pictures. Ltd.. The Manor Davies St., W.l.
Leslie Howard Productions. Denham Studios
Denham. Uxbridge, Mddx. RKO-Radio British Productions, Ltd.. D. & P
Studios. Denham, Uxbridge, Mddx. Charter Film Productions. Ltd.. 199. Piccadilly
W.l.
Excelsior Film Productions, Ltd., "Woodhouse."
Windsor Road. Gerrards Cross. Bucks. Camden Productions, Ltd., 25/26, Hanover
Square. W.l,
Distributors
LONDON
Ace Distributors, Ltd., National House, 60/86
Wardour Street, W.l. Anima Film Co., 76, Wardour St.. W.l. .Associated British Film Distributors, Ltd., 169/171
Oxford St., W.l. British Lion Film Corporation, 76 Wardour Street
W.l.
Butcher's Film Service, Ltd., 175 Wardour St W,l.
Columbia Pictures, 139 Wardour St., W.l. Denning Films, Ltd., 2, The Gables, Vale of
Health, Hempstead, N.W.3. Equity British Films, Ltd., 26 St. Anne's Court
Wardour St., W.l. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 31/32, Soho Square
W.l,
Gaumont British Distributors, Ltd., Film House Wardour St., W.l.
General Film Distributors, Ltd., 127/133 Wardour St., W.l.
Independent Film Distributors. Ltd., Ilia, Wardour Street, W.l.
Independent Film Productions, Princes House. 30 Jermyn St.. W.l.
International Productions, Ltd., 101 Wardour St W.l.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ltd., 19 Tower St., W.C.2. Paramount Film Sei-vice. Ltd., 166, Wardour St W.l.
Pathe Pictures, Ltd., Film House, Wardour St. W.l.
R.K.O. Radio Pictures, Ltd., 2-4 Dean St., W.l. Sherwood Exchange Film Agency, 191 Wardour St., W.l.
Standard Film Agency, 26 St. Anne's Court, Wardour St., W.l.
United Artists Corp., Ltd., Film House, Wardour St., W.l.
Warner Bros. Pictures. Ltd.. 135 Wardour St W.l.
European Film Distributors, Ltd., Wallace House
113/117, Wardour St., W.l. Ambassador Films. Ltd., 179 Wardour Street. W.l. Anglo-Canadian Distributors, Ltd.. 76 Wardour
Street, W.l.
Cavendish Pictures, Ltd.. 26 St. Anne's Court,
Wardour Street, W.l. Exclusive Films, Ltd.. National House, 60/66
Wardour St.. W.l. Renown Pictures Corporation. Ltd., Independent
House, Wardour Street, W.l. Technique Distributors. Ltd., 93/95 W»rdour
Street. W.l.,
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