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TA3LE I A
Assets
of I.iotion Pictur
e Theatres,
1930-1933
(Dollars In
thousands )
1930
1931
1932
1933
Number Reporting
1,889
1,809
2 , 152
2,368
Total Assets
$618,792
$717,307
$986,584
$1,076,486
Current
102,404
119,728
205,919
255,927
Investments
53,340
68 , 143
173,753
244,584
Fixed
389,494
470,433
523 , 241
490,536
Miscellaneous
73,554
59,003
83,771
75,339
Source; Bureau of Internal Revenue, tabulation sheets and published reports (Statistics of Income).,
Cam tal Invo stment
According to the Motion Picture Almanac the capital investment of the Industry stood at $2,000^000,000 in each of the years from 1929 to 1935, with the exception of 1934 when the figure was placed at $1,750,000,000, The investment in studios is roughly $100,000,000; the investment in the distribution branch of the Industry is something between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000; while that for the exhibition branch of the Industry lies between $1,630,000,000 and $1,880,000,000. In other words, the investments in production or distribution are insignificant in comparison with the investment in exhibition. In a study made recently by a group of architects, Messrs. Lamb, Rapp, Alschlager, Eberson and Schultz, it was estimated that $1,460,000,000 has been spent to date in the building of theatres exclusive of those parts of theatre buildings given over to office space. 1/
Interstate Character of the Industry
In the making of films, numerous writers, actors, actresses, directors, cameramen, and other artists and artisans, are assembled from many different states and foreign countries. Great quantities of unercoosed films and large quantities of scenery, costumes, paraphernalia, and properties are transported from many different states to the studios located in those few where motion pictures are produced.
The distributors enter into contracts for leases with exhibitors for the exhibition of films throughout the United States through the media of correspondence, branch offices, and salesmen. Thus film contracts which are entered into between residents of different states, involve the leasing of a commodity manufactured in. one state and transported to and used in another state.
1/ Verbal statement by Mr. David Palf reyman of the Theatre Service Division of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (June, 1935),
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