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Number of films showing at each venue

Note: the month abbreviations at the top of the bar graph are links that will display a calendar showing film and event information for that month.

  • 1950
    • 184
    • 108
    • 0
    • 0
    • 6
  • 1951
    • 204
    • 119
    • 2
    • 1
    • 14
  • 1952
    • 3
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1953
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1954
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1955
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1956
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1957
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1958
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
  • 1959
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
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Run lengths

The following graph shows how the number of days that films for this period ran (i.e. that they were exhibited on contiguous days). The horizontal (x-) axis is the number of films. The vertical (y-) axis is the length of days a film ran.

The average length of a run for this period was 1.47 days. The five films that had the longest runs, 3 days, were Sands Of Iwo Jima, Cinderella, Walk Softly, Stranger, Samson and Delilah, and An American in Paris.

    • 189
    • 145
    • 7
    • 1
    342 (53.35%)
    • 199
    • 13
    • 80
    • 1
    • 1
    294 (45.87%)
    • 2
    • 3
    5 (0.78%)
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