Year book of motion pictures (1928)

Financial Plan for a 1,000 Seat Theater Detailing Construction, Equipment, Financing Costs, Together With An Analysis of Operating Expense and Computation of Profit Expectancy. By GEORGE S. FALKENSTEIN Magaciner, Ebcrhard & Harris, Architects, Phila. From "EXHIBITORS HERALD" {Reprinted with Permission) BUILDING COST Ground $20,000 Construction 80,000 Heating and ventilating 6,500 Electric 6,000 Carrying charges during construction 3,000 Interior decorating 2,500 Marquise 1,000 Architect's fee 6,000 Scats $8,000 Organ 12.000 Booth equipment 3.500 Draperies, carpets, etc 2,000 Total cost FINANCING Mortgages $100,000 Cash in property 25,000 Cash on account equipment.. 3.500 Deferred payment 22,000 ANNUAL INCOME 1,000 seats 4 times per week at 25c $52,000 Rent 2 stores at $75 per month 1,800 $125,000 25,500 $150,500 $150,500 $53,800 EXPENSES (Annual) 6 per cent $100,000 (approximate mortgage $6,000 Taxes, water rent, etc 2,000 Film cost ($150 per week) .. 7,800 Salaries: Manager $50 Organist 40 Ushers 40 Cashier 20 Janitor and film operator 50 $200 10 400 Advert:sing ($60 per week).. 3,120 Heat and light ($40 per week) 2,0<?0 Depreciation — replacement .... 3.000 PROFIT Profit first year $19,400 Less equipment payments .... 11,000 Profit second year 19,400 Less equipment payments .... 11.000 Profit succeeding years 34,400 $19,400 $8,400 8,400 $19,400 National Board of Review Activities in 1927 NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW, a trained, volunteer, disinterested citizen organization, composed of over 300 people reviewing films in New York City before they are released to the public, with associate and advisory groups throughout the country. The Board is opposed to legal censorship and favors the constructive method of selecting the better pictures, pulishing classified lists of, and information about them, and building up audiences and support for this type of product through the work of community groups, in order that producers may be encouraged to make the finest pictures, and exhibitors to show them, and the people ,in general, helped to make a response to the best that the screen has to offer. A review of the National Board's general activities during 1927 follows: BETTER FILMS NATIONAL COUNCIL Work with community groups is conducted through the Council, a department of the Board. Encourages a study of films as a medium of entertainment, instruction and artistic expression. It brings to the attention of the public, a classified list of the better pictures, listed according to their type-of-audience (age and group), suitability, etc., and cooperates with exhibitors in encouraging support of the finer pictures. LITTLE THEATER MOVEMENT Besides review work, and activities in promoting better films, the Board has sought to en courage the Little Photop'ay Theater movement, both as a projection of the better films idea and as a means of enlisting the support for the motion picture as a medium of artistic expression of the great potential audience that is still dormant. MOTION PICTURE CONFERENCE The Board, since 1925, has been holding annual conferences in New York at which time affiliated membere of the Board throughout the country and those working on the same principle for the support of better films, gather to hear speakers on various phases of the motion picture, and to discuss mutual plans and prob'ems. "MARCH AND THE MOVIES" As an addition to its 1927 conference, the Board compiled a pictorial film assemblage called "The March of the Movies," showing the progessive steps and influence in the growth of pictures. OPPOSITION TO CENSORSHIP Resolutions opposing legal censorship, which were adopted in 1925, were reaffirmed in 1927. PUBLICATIONS Publication of several better fi'ms magazines and periodicals continued during 1927. 928