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TABLE VII
Number of Domestic and Foreign Motion Picture Features Released In the United States, 1927-1934
Total Domestic Features Foreign Features
Number Per Cent Number Per Cent Number Per Cent
of Total ■ of Total of Total
1927 743 100,0 668 89.9 75 10.1
1929 820 100.0 627 76.5 193 23.5
1929 850 100.0 705 82.9 145 17.1
1930 600 100.0 514 85.7 86 14.3
1931 627 100.0 505 80,5 122 19.5
1932 685 100.0 489 71c4 196 28.6
1933 644 100.0 507 78.7 137 2lc3
1934 662 100.0 480 72.5 182 27.5
Source: Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures, 1935.
I-Todaction of "Features." Table VIII shows the number of features produced from 1927 through 1934. Attention is directed to the high number of releases by major companies in 1927 and the gradual decline through 1932, with the subsequent moderate rise. During these years the major companies averaged almost 70 per cent of the total number of feature pictures released.
TABLE VIII
Features Released by Major and Independent Domestic
Companies a/
Kind of Company
Total Major Independent
iamber Fer~CehT ^mber Per Cent lumber Per Uent of Total of Total of Total
1927 668 lOOcO 510 7603 158 23.7
1928 627 100.0 462 73„7 165 26.3
1929 705 100.0 393 55 „ 7 312 44.3
1930 514 100.0 352 70o4 152 29.6
1931 505 100.0 324 64.1 181 35.9
1932 489 100.0 318 65.0 171 35.0
1933 507 100.0 338 66.7 169 33.3
1934 480 100.0 361 75.2 119 24.8
Source: Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures. 1935.
a/ During 1927-1931, ten companies listed; during 1932-1934, eight companies listed.
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