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PRODUCTION ENCYCLOPEDIA
World's Motion Picture Theatres
TABLE I.— WORLD MOTION PICTURE THEATRES
Region
Europe
South America.
Mexico and Central America.
Caribbean area
Far East
Middle East
South Pacific
Africa
Atlantic Islands
Canada
Drive-in theatres '
United States
Drive-in theatres '
Puerto Rico
Alaska
Hawaii
Total 91 ,609
1949
1951
United States
Percent
ncrease
Number
Number
Percentage
of
Seating
of
Seating
of Screen
Theatres
Seating
Theatres
Capacity
Theatres
Capacity
Time
51,751
23,943,799
53,659
25,389,424
63
3.7
6.0
4,994
3,302,529
6,070
3,522,987
64
21,5
6.6
1,952
1,520,185
2,338
1,822,305
76
1.6
1.4
717
427,576
835
491,647
84
16.4
15.0
5,905
3,768,575
7,369
4,549,663
48
24.7
20.6
294
183,525
349
223,908
57
18.7
22.0
2,268
1,687,460
2,285
1,448,144
65
1.0
—14.2
1,281
748,818
1,301
890,058
63
1.5
13.4
166
72,914
152
69,503
73
— 8.4
— 4.7
1,695
874,094
1,795
930,161
75
8.9
10.4
14
1 0,000
66
46,200
19,323
11,722,616
19,797
12,384,150
90
13.8
1 8.3
983
688,000
3,323
2,300,000
130
69,600
142
75,000
95
9.2
7.7
28
14,000
28
14,000
95
108
50,000
108
50,000
90 74
8.3
91,609
49,1 19.691
99,617
54,107,150
9.7
' Seating capacity of drive-in theatres estimated on basis of 700 average per theatre.
TABLE II. — EUROPE
Country
Number of Theatres
Seating Capacity
1951
Number of Theatres
Seating Capacity
United
States
Percentage
of Screen
Time
Austria 790
Belgium.. _. 1,289
Bulgaria 291
Czechoslovakia 1,928
Denmark 394
Faroe Islands _ __ 4
Finland.... _ 462
France _ 5,163
Germany 5,832
Gibraltar 3
Greece 1 70
Hungary 555
Ireland 260
Italy ; 7,545
Liechtenstein _ 2
Luxembourg 30
Malta 26
Netherlands 440
Norway _ 381
Poland 570
Portugal 301
Rumania 350
Russia (U. S. S. R.) 12,614
Spain 3,583
Sweden 2,462
Switzerland '408
Trieste, Free Territory of 33
Turkey 230
United Kingdom 5,000
Yugoslavia 635
Total 51,751
240,000
612,000
96,000
611,000
126,654
490
129,650
2,620,000
2,349,955
1,853
100,000
1 94,000
168,428
3,000,000
353
20,700
13,335
250,000
112,358
230,000
177,500
108,000
5,300,000
1,715,000
715,400
1 50,000
12,633
1 13,450
4,600,000
175,000
1,032
1,350
410
1,928
441
4
491
5,145
6,220
3
170
586
300
8,000
2
39
30
495
452
570
379
303
12,614
3,950
2,549
470
33
234
4,583
876
282,000
760,000
160,000
61 1,000
139,000
490
138,460
2,475,177
3,193,600
2,394
1 00,000
181,000
180,000
3,600,000
353
22,600
1 5,000
225,000
125,770
230,000
213,000
91,000
5,300,000
2,000,000
600,000
170,000
12,633
138,000
4,160,000
262,947
23,943,799 53,659 25,389,424
45 75
75 7C 7C 5C -40 75 70
85 65 50 75 80 70 55
(■) 65
[n
40 60 50
70 70 40
63
' No accurate data available for Albania, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. ^ No current data available on screen time devoted to United States films. " Percentage of screen time applies to United States Zone only.
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