Chapter XXI: Appendix: A

STATISTICS SHOWING THE SCOPE OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY

Motion picture theatres in the United 15,000
States

Seating capacity (one show) 7,605,000

Average weekly attendance at picture 50,000,000
theatres

Admissions paid annually $520,000,000

The average number of reels used for one 8
performance

Average number of seats in picture 507
theatres

Number of persons employed in picture 105,000
theatres

Persons employed in picture production 50,000

Permanent employees in all branches of 300,000
picture industry

Investment in motion picture industry $1,250,000,000

Approximate cost of pictures produced $200,000,000
annually

Salaries and wages paid annually at $75,000,000
studios in production

Cost of costumes, scenery, and other $50,000,000
materials and supplies used in
production annually

Average number of feature films produced 700
annually

Average number of short reel subjects, 1,500
excluding news reels, annually

Taxable motion picture property in the $720,000,000
United States

Percentage of pictures made in 84%
California (1922)

Percentage of pictures made in New York 12%
(1922)

Percentage of pictures made elsewhere in 4%
United States (1922)

Foreign made pictures sent here for sale 425
(1992)

Foreign made pictures sold and released 6
for exhibition

Theatres running six to seven days per 9,000
week

Theatres running four to five days per 1,500
week

Theatres running one to three days per 4,500
week

Lineal feet of film exported in 1921 140,000,000

Lineal feet of film exported in 1913 32,000,000

Percentage of American films used in 90
foreign countries

Film footage used each week by news 1,400,000
reels

Combined circulation of news reels 40,000,000
weekly

Number of theatres using news reels 11,000
weekly

Amount spent annually by producers and $5,000,000
exhibitors in newspaper and magazine
advertising

Amount spent annually by producers in $2,000,000
photos, cuts, slides, and other
accessories

Amount spent annually by producers in $2,000,000
lithographs

Amount spent annually by producers in $3,000,000
printing and engraving

Hospitals and charitable institutions in 7,000
U. S. equipped for showing motion
pictures, Jan. 1, 1923

The number of schools and churches in U.
S. equipped for showing motion
pictures, Jan. 1, 1923, almost equals
the number of theatres.

Practically every State and Federal
Penitentiary, Penal Institution and
House of Detention in the U. S. shows
motion pictures regularly to their
inmates.

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