The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-13
OUR FILM EXPORTS
 TOTAL 30, ,OOO MILES
National City Bank Finds One Years Shipment
 Would Encircle World.

Despite the war, American moving picture films retain their popularity the world over. This was shown in compilation made public yesterday by the National City Bank of New York, analysing foreign trade move ments of the films in the govern ment's fiscal year ended June 30, and earlier periods.
 The banks statement said that enough American motion picture films 1 ere exeported from the United States in the twelve months covered by the | review to stretch around the world at the equator. The total length of films shipped out of the country in the per- iod was in round terms 0,000,000 | feet, amounting in total to over 3o,- | 900 miles. Of this amount nearly | 00,000,000 feet was exposed" film ready for the theatre and the remain | der "unexposed'' film for the photo graphers, In mentioning these heavy exports, the bank called attention to the fact that the United States is now the worlds largest manufacturer of films for the camera and the pro- jecting machine.
 Even this enormous exportation oe 160, 100000 feet, or 30,000 miles, falls below the record of 1917, doubtless | due to scarcity of ocean tonnage and | other causes related to the war. The | compilation shows that 230,00O,0OO 1 feet of films made in the United States went to foreign countries and American possessions in the fiscal year of 1916, and 1S0,00O,000 feet in 1917, while over $1,0O0,OOO worth of foreign films were imported during the fiscal period of 1918.
 The bank points out that it was only in 1912 that the exportation of this | class of merchandise was considered of sufficient importance to justify mention in the statistic of our inter- national commerce. In that fiscal year the total exports of films amount ed to S0,000,000 feet. By 1914 the to- tai was 1SS,O0O,0O feet, and in 1915 it was 151. 100000 feet. It was figur- 1 ed that the value of the 1918 moving picture exports was close to $7,OOO,- 900, against $8,97S,000 in 1916 and $5,O9O,000 in 1915
 | Of the films exported in 1918 over one-half were exposed, ready for use The average export price of the ex- posed film was cents per foot, and | of unexposed film ? F cents per foot. The valuation per foot of the imported film was less than that of the films | exported, the stated value of 5O,OO0,- 600 feet of unexposed films imported being about 1 F cents per foot, and nearly 3 cents per foot for the ex- posed, of which, however, the quantity was extremely small.
 Most of the films exported go to Great Britain and Canada. the total to Great Britain in 1918 amounting to 24,OOO,OOO feet, and to Canada 16,- 000,000 feet. While no exact figures are available on the quantity of films now produced in the United States, an estimate based upon the known quantity exported suggests that the entire domestic production consider. ably exceeds 1000, ,OOO, 900 feet witt 2 value of approximately $4O,000, ,0OC per annum when exposed and ready for use in the projecting machine.
 The character of the views present ed on the exposed ready-to-use film exported was, the bank said, quite similar to that of the films in use il the United States probably three
 fourths being photo plays, and thu remainder chiefly travelogues, new
 service and comedies. The value O
 the motion picture films exported
 from the United States since the off
 cial record of exports was begun il
 1913 aggregates about $36,000,0OO
 while that of the imports since 1911
 amounts to nearly $10,00O,O00, in | cluding uneXDOSed and eXposed Dosi
 tives and negatives.
 Of the 128,OOO.OO0 feet of expose,
 films exported in 1917, it was sai
 3O,OOO,O0O went to England, 16,000,
 900 to Italy, 15,0OO,OOO to Russia, II,
 300, ,0OO to France, 14,OOO,0OO to Can
 ada, 100000 to Australia, 5000
 10 Argentina, 2,375,00O 10 Japan an
 l,32O,000 to China. The American
 made films are also in great deman
 in Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippines an