The Moving Picture Business.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 63, 14 November 1913, Page 3

The Moving Picture Business.

The growth of the moving picture industry is a romance in the history of business. W!ien the first films were shown.few year- ago, in dirty lulls tot'-, accompaniment of tinkering, illtuned pianos, f -w people realised * to what an extent this hum of i amusement was destined to attract the pleasure- eking world. The ‘‘Graphic” calculates that there is probably £100,000,00'■ invested in moving - picture interests- -including theatres, fiimproducing, printing, and manufacture of cameras- throughout the world. The cost of negatives varies v. sive often give the best result. About £B,OOO i- the limit of cost for a negative, but it is probable that the him entitled “ The Life of Christ” lately taken in Palestine by the Kalem Company, of New York, will cost that firm £12,000 by tlu* time it i< produced. It is e>ti a led that . every day during its “ run.” j The cost of an average dramatic j production film is about £3,000. Of a subject that proves popular as many as 500 prints are sold. There are 5,000 moving picture theatres in Great Britain, with an average seating capacity of. GOO, and these theatres are working at least six days from three o’clock p.m. till eleven o’clock at night, with a probable a ttendance \ of 400 persons, renewed six times between three and eleven, mak- 1 ing the number of persons seeing pictures in each theatre 2,400. There are 450 moving picture theatres under the jurisdiction o! the L.C.C. In America the theatres number in >ro than 12,000. “Spare Moments.”