The film daily year book of motion pictures (1949)

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Breakdown of Caribbean Area Film Theaters: Seating Seating Country Theaters Capacity Country Theaters Capacity Cuba 485 9RO fl59 Haiti 10 6.300 Dominican Bermuda 9 3.000 Republic 47 20.090 7 3.000 Trinidad-Tobago . 41 28.855 4 2,367 French We8t 3 1.892 20 8.400 St. Lucia .... 1 500 19 15,000 St. Vincent 1 600 Netherlands West 1 800 Indies 11 8.287 South Pacific Film Theaters 2,188 Seating Capacity 1.139,556 Breakdown of South Pacific Film Theaters: Seating Seating Country Theaters Capacity Country Theaters Capacity Australia 1.700 1.148.746 New Zealand 461 280.790 Fiji Islands 11 4.920 Society Islands New Caledonia ... 3 2.100 (Tahiti) 8 3.000 U. S. Exports of Motion Picture Film and Equipment. 1948 and 1947: Unexposed, Sensitized Motion Picture Film (Rawstock) : 35 mm. Positive film 35 mm. Negative film 16 mm. Positive film 16 mm. Negative film 8 mm. Positive film 8 mm. Negative film 1948 Linear feet 249.041.046 58,325.864 25.407.008 45.558.172 1,120.345 4.029.790 Value $3,119,457 1,883.091 469.696 826,427 64.267 290.935 1847 Linear feet 330,322.385 '55.216.742 25/998.111 36.627.626 661,391 6,078,796 Value $3,658,223 1.616.283 456.402 735.917 32.256 282,741 Total 383,482.225 $6,653,873 454,905.051 $6,781,822 Exposed or Developed Motion Picture Feature Films: 35 mm. Negative film . 11.497,484 $ 511,068 11,582.539 $ 484,895 16 mm. Negative film . 2,337.041 108.285 1,755.456 89,526 35 mm. Positive film .. 260,637.848 7,327.254 281.836.571 7,460,162 16 mm. Positive film . . 20.205,169 564.847 16.065.587 485.675 Total 294.677.542 $8,511,454 311,240,163 $8,520,258 Motion Picture Equipment: Motion Picture Cameras: Number Value Number Value 35 mm. Cameras 147 $ 260.980 388 $ 694.519 16 mm. Cameras 4.388 623.777 4,959 648,283 8 mm. Cameras 10,677 671,220 14,435 669,549 Total 15.212 $1,555,977 19.782 $2,012,351 Motion Picture Projectors: 35 mm. Projectors .... 16 mm. Silent Projectors 16 mm. Sound Projectors 8 mm. Projectors .... 4.154 4.830 8.440 9,278 $1,637,679 543.753 2.357.505 636.362 6.936 8.628 10,065 14,172 $2,532,173 665.764 2.961.932 741,242 Total 26.702 $5,175,299 39.701 $6,901,111 Other Equipment: Sound Recording Sound Reproducing Motion Picture Screens. . 1.887 $1,591,696 1.882.988 419,233 347,323 3.485 $2,185,376 4,059.830 701.859 384,961 Total $4,241,240 $7,332,025 TOTAL $10,972,516 83' $16,245,487