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1586 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, before Mr. Casey is called back to the stand, I want to read a memorandum which was prepared at my request by Mr. Harold E. Snide of the General Research Section of the Library of Congress, showing the interest in and probable influence of motion pictures upon the people of the United States, Mr. Kearns. Proceed. Mr. McCann (reading) :
Library of Congress Legislative REai'ERENOE Service. Washington, D. C, January 5, 19Jf8.
Data on Attendance at School, Church, Movies
The average daily attendance at public schools in the United States was 19,G02,772, for 1943^4, the latest year for which figures have been published. Data are published on a daily rather than weekly basis. Presuraaljly an aggregate figure of five times the daily, would be the approximate weekly attendance — viz. 98.013.860.
The average weekly attendance at church services is estimated at 25 percent of the registered membership (72,492,609 in 1945), or 18,123,166.
The average weekly attendance of United States film theaters in 1945 is estimated at 95,000,000. This is the latest year for which statistics are available.
The sources from which this material was gathered are attached to the memorandum, and I now offer it to the court reporter for reproduction in the record.
(The source material is as follows:)
Sources: Statistics of State School Systems, 1943-44, Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, Washington, D. C, United States Office of Education : Yearbook of American Churches, 1945 edition, quoted in World Almanac. 1947, page 743; McCullough, Charles J. (.statistician, commission on church attendance), in statistical appendix to Babson, Roger W., How to Increase Church Attendance, New York, Fleming H. Revell Co., 1936, page 150, BV652.G4; Alicoate, Jack, editor. Film Dailv Year Book, 1946, page 49, PN1993.3.F5.
Mr, Owens, You mean the point is there is more interest in moving pictures than there is in churches ?
Mr. McCann, I mean that shows the relative importance of the moving-picture industry to the life of our country.
Mr. Kearns. I see no objection to having that in the record.
Mr. Owens. Except that I do not see why one church should be picked.
Mr. McCann. I have schools, churches, and movies as some of the great forces in the life of our country.
Mr. Kearns, We will stand adjourned until 2 o'clock,
(Wliereupon, at 12 noon, a recess was taken until 2 p. m. of the same day.)
AFTERNOON SESSION
(The subcommittee reconvened at 2 p. m.)
Mr. Kearns. The hearing will please come to order.
Mr. Pat Casey, will you kindly take the stand again.
TESTIMONY OF PAT CASEY— Resumed
Mr. Kearns. I think you were in the midst of answering a question of Congressman Owens when I asked you to leave the stand to permit Mr. Hutcheson to testify.
Do you want to continue with that thought ?