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Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

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Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
000313
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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7 THE FILM ABROAD The international figures on the photoplay arc impressive. The world investment in studios and theatres is $2,650,000,000. To earn that sum at a salary of $2 500 a year would take a man 1 ,060,000 years. It would provide very comfortable five-room houses costing $5,000 each to 530,000 persons. There is an estimated weekly world attendance upon commercially made photoplays of 220,000,000 people. If these photoplay attendants stood six feet apart number one would have his feet in Lake Michigan while the last looked out upon a sunset over the Pacific Ocean. Such comparisons to illustrate the Gargantuan size of the film industry could be indefinitely prolonged. There are 52,175 talking picture theatres in the world. Of these 15,858 are in the United States. There is one theatre in the United States for every 6,742 persons. There is one theatre in Europe for every 9,270 persons. There is one theatre in the world for every 20,716 persons. The motion picture showings in Europe, in number of theatres, are not far behind the United States. In production, however, the difference is great. America supplies 70 per cent of all the successful commercial motion pictures shown in theatres throughout the world.1 1 Figures supplied by Association of Motion Picture Producers. [265]