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Progress in the Motion Picture Industry 437
Statistics
Approximately $1,500,000,000 are invested in the motion picture industry, Sl,250,000,000 of which are invested in theaters, the balance in studios and distributing offices. ^-^
Imports and exports of motion picture film of the United States, Germany, England, and France, have been given in a summary which covers the last three years. ^* A report of the United States Department of Commerce shows a decrease in exports of motion picture film for the year 1926.^^ The export of unexposed film from Germany to the United States decreased from 26,062,800 kilograms in 1925 to 15,692,300 kilograms in 1926. Export of other films increased from 58,500 kilograms to 100,600.96
The South AmxCrican market strongly favors United States films, 90% of the pictures shown there being made in the United States."
A report has been made which gives the industry's income for 1925. In this year, 5,376 amusement corporations and 314 motion picture producers filed returns with the Government showing their assets in cash, accounts receivable, notes receivable, inventory, fixed property and investments, "and their liabilities in accounts payable, notes pa^^able, bonded debt, and mortgages. ^^
A survey has been made of the producing organizations and of the distribution and exhibition conditions in Europe and England. ^^ It has been reported to the Department of Commerce that in metropolitan France 3,995 motion picture theaters are registered, 180 of which are in Paris. Twenty-four of the Parisian theaters have more than 1500 seats. ^°° There are approximately 9500 theaters in Central Europe, Spain, and Italy. Germany, the largest motion picture market in Europe, had at the beginning of 1926, 3878 theaters. In Germany, 206 producers made 246 pictures that year.^°^ Belgium has,
according to another survey 1000 theaters, 100 of which are in Brussels. ^^2
Australia has one picture house for each 5000 of population, ^°^ while 900,000,000 people in the Orient are served by 1600 theaters. Japanese producers make approximately 700 features yearly. ^^^
Stereoscopic Motion Pictures
A large producing organization has acquired the rights to a
process of making third dimension pictures, developed by two Swiss
inventors. No auxiliary apparatus is required to project films made
by this process; standard theater projectors are used, and the pictures