Evidence study no. 25 of the motion picture industry (1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Evidence study no. 25 of the motion picture industry
Date:
1933
Publisher:
New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.
Volume:
The motion picture industry
Leaf #:
000422
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion picture industry
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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400 -^ ^> ^ The Motion Picture Industry ican films was shown in Germany in 1925 than in any other major market. The greatly reduced importation from the United States was not due, however, wholly to the kontingent even at that period; and today, the kontingent may be said to play only EXHIBIT 36* MOTION PICTURE THEATERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD 1931 EUROPE UNITED STATES LATIN AMERICA FAR EAST CANADA AFRICA NEAR EAST THOUSANDS OF THEATERS 10 15 20 25 5436 7555 29,191 12,594 20,000 13,600 4925 1645 JllOO 705 I 708 280 85 16 ITALICS INDICATE SOUND ALL THE ABOVE FIGURES INSTALLATIONS ARE APPROXIMATIONS * Table compiled by M. P. Dennis, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce an incidental role in the matter.3 Since that time, the situation has been modified somewhat. The introduction of sound came. The sound film has changed the import conditions throughout. The German public wants to see sound pictures — pictures with dialogue that it can understand. The emergency measure adopted, of presenting films with American dialogue and interspersed German explanatory titles, proved insufficient to meet the demands of the public. Also, the socalled German "versions", in which German dialogue was synchronized after the pictures were completed, did not register any great success. To be fully competitive in Ger s This, of course, raises the question as to why the kontingent is retained at all.