The motion picture industry (Nov 1935)

Record Details:

Title:
The motion picture industry
Date:
Nov 1935
Publisher:
United States. National Recovery Administration. Division of Review
Volume:
Evidence study no. 25 of the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
00097
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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Total Number of Theatres. As shown in Table XXVIII, the Film Daily Yearbook reported 16,885 motion picture theatres in the United States in 1934. Number of Theatres by Principal States While production of motion pictures is highly concentrated in a fen states, the market for films, which consists of all exhibiting theatres in the United States, is widely scattered. Table XXVIII indicates the distribution of theatres by principal states in 1934. The state of New York was the most important in 1934, for it reported 9 per cent of the total number of theatres, Pennsylvania, and Ohio followed in close order having 6.6 per cent and 5,7 per cent respectively, California, which is the principal producing state, contained about 5 per cent of all theatres, TABLE XXVIII Number of Motion Picture Theatres, bjr Principal States, 1934 State Number of Theatre s Per Cent of Total U. S. Total aj 16,885 100.0 California 875 5 ? Illinois 965 5.7 Indiana 573 3.4 Iowa 458 2.7 Kentucky 420 2.5 Massachusetts 499 3.0 Michigan 570 3.4 Minnesota 421 2.5 Missouri 523 3.1 New Jersey 427 2.5 New York 1,539 9.1 Ohio 985 5.8 Pennsylvania 1,121 6,6 Texas 930 5.5 Wisconsin 484 2.9 Total, 15 States 10,790 63.9 Total, Other States 6,095 36.1 Source: Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures , 1934. a/ This total figure does not agree with the total given by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America which report 18,371 as shown in Table XXXI below. 8976