American Motion Pictures Abroad
I have chosen this subject at the risk of covering ground which may be familiar to many of you because I regard the maintenance and development of the foreign field for American motion pictures as perhaps the most important single factor confronting the trade today. No other major industry in this country depends on foreign markets for its profits in any such degree as does the film industry. Over 30 per cent of the gross revenues from all sources on American films come from outside the United States and in the case of certain individual companies this percentage total runs even higher. In other words, if for any reason the returns from abroad were eliminated or even seriously curtailed, it would place the film business and its allied trades in a rather unfortunate position.
- Print ISSN
- 0096-6460
- Published
- 1928-04
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J08100