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Foreign
1948 United Kingdom Film Gross £112,000,000
Division of U. K. box office shilling:: Exhibitor, 4Vad; distributor. Id; producer, 2d; taxes 4%d.
Number of British Film Theaters Operating on Jan. 1, 1949 (estimated) 4,776 Note: Of these. 447 are owned by Associated British Corp., 252 by GaumontBritish, and 308 by Odeon.
Average Weekly British Attendance (estimated) 27,000,000
London West End Admission Price Range 4 s. 6 d. to 11 s. 6 d.
Average British Admission Charge Outside of London West End 1 s. 9 d.
New U. S. Features Distributed in England in 1948 291
New British Features Distributed in England in 1948 125
Valuation of British Film Imports from the U. S. in 1948, and British
Film Remittances to the U. S. in the Same Year (estimated) £6,000,000
British Film Production Cost Range £130,000 to £300,000
Annual Total Entertainment Tax Paid by British Film Theaters £38,000,000
Number of French Film Theaters as of Jan. 1, 1949 (estimated) 10,587
Breakdown: Permanent 35 mm. Theaters, 5.163: 16 mm. theaters, 5,424.
Average Weekly French Film Attendance 8,000,000
French Film Gross for 1947-48 20,400,000,000 francs
Number of French Film Studios in Operation 14
Breakdown: Paris. 11; Bordeaux. Marseille. Nice, one each.
Number of French Film Producers as of Jan. 1, 1949 94
Average Cost per Feature of French Films Produced in 1948 35,000,000 francs
1947 Canadian Films Theaters Gross $62,865,000
Canadian Film Theaters Gross, 1946-1939:
1946: $60,000,000 1944: $53,000,000 1942: $45,561,097 1940: $37,585,955
1945: $65,000,000 1943: $52,567,258 1941: $42,182,000 1939: $34,010,115
Canadian Amusement Tax Collections, 1947 $15,819,000
Total 1947 Canadian Film Theater Attendance 220,857,000
Comparable 1946 Figure 227,538,000
Average Canadian Admission Price (Exclusive of Tax): 1947: 28.5 cents
1946: 26.3 cents
Annual American Film Revenue from Canada (estimated) $17,000,000
Breakdown: Film rentals, $10,000,000; theater operation, etc., $7,000,000.
British Film Revenue from Canada (estimated) $3,000,000
Total Australian Theaters (estimated) 1.700
Breakdown: In capital cities, 5%; suburban, 29%; rural areas. 66%. Of the
total, 155 are operated by Hoyts, and 118 by Greater Union Theaters.
Australian Exhibition Gross (estimated) £17,000,000
U. S. Remittables from Australia £2,000,000
Australian Entertainment Tax (estimated) £3,111,000
Total Theaters Operating in Germany (estimated) 4,200
U. S. Zone. 1,450; British Zone. 1.100; French Zone, 450; Russian
Breakdown : Zone, 1,200.
Estimated Weekly World Attendance at Film Theaters.
Far East Film Theaters
Seating Capacity
Breakdown of Far East Film Theaters:
235,000,000 2,900 1,481,839
Country
Seating
Seating
Theaters
Capacity
Country
Theaters
Capacity
163
164,423
Republic of the
Manchuria
115
71,817
Philippines . . .
310
235.000
Formosa
116
82.230
140
60,000
French Indochina .
19
12,300
12
14,638
1.603
658,374
Singapore and
Korea
116
54,120
Malayan Union
140
60.000
Macao
6
5,331
Netherlands Indies
160
64,000
European Film Theaters. Seating Capacity
54,071 16,716,184
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