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successful films. With the return of normal trading conditions, the competition of the larger producing countries was intense and the deficiencies of the modestlvmade Danish films were emphasized. By 1950. however, there had been a sufficient volume of Danish production for its distinguishing qualities to become recognized: a sympathetic concern with the lives of ordinary men and women, a reformer's interest in social problems, and a preference for the hard facts of drama over the fripperies of escapism. Danish films gave the world an opportunity to meet Danes and not people unidentifiable outside a studio. They lacked technical ingenuity and in their anxiety to avoid artificiality they were sometimes flat and ordinary; but for a small country they were still a brave gesture in the face of Hollywood.
In addition to Nordisk Films, one of the oldest film producing countries in the world, feature films are made in Denmark by Palladium, established in 1921 and responsible for Vredens Dag: by Asa which produced Afsporet and De RodeEnge; by Saga, established in 1943, and by Minerva, producer since 1936 of documentary films. Dansk Filmkompagni, established in 1936, produced Danmark i Lcenker (Denmark in Chains), a reportage of the German Occupation. The companies produce about ten feature films a year.
Denmark has about 400 cinemas, forty-eight in Greater Copenhagen. 134 in provincial towns, and the remainder in the country. The total number of cinema seats is 128,796. In 1945 forty-seven million tickets were sold. The entertainment tax was raised from 40 to 60 per cent, in 1946, when it was decided that an amount of 500.000 Kroner should be set aside every year for the Ministry of Education to distribute in support of the artistic endeavours in Danish film production. This practice was discontinued, however, in December 1949, when it was decided that one-fourth of the entertainment tax earned by showing Danish feature films should be returned to the producers of the films. Thus in Denmark also preferential legislation was devised to ensure the continuance of film production.
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