Motion-Picture Network

Motion-Picture Network 

cultural and entertainment enterprises, such as theaters and clubs, that show films. Motion-picture projection units may be urban or rural, year-round or seasonal, and stationary or mobile; they may show 35-mm standard and wide-screen films, 70-mm films, 8-mm and 16-mm films, stereoscopic films, and films for 360° projection.

The task of the motion-picture network is to promote the regular showing of films throughut the country and to further the communist education of the workers through the medium of the film. As of Jan. 1, 1972, there were about 157,000 motion-picture theaters and projection units in the USSR (about 24,000 in urban areas and 133,000 in rural areas; there were about 560 wide-gauge and 74,000 wide-screen theaters). See Table 1 for data on the number of projection units in the Union republics.

Table 1. Number of motion-picture projection units in the Union republics
(at end of year)
	1940	1950	1960	1971
RSFSR	17,646	27,205	64,305	95,841
Ukrainian SSR	5,822	7,188	19,668	28,822
Byelorussian SSR	763	1,531	4,014	6,556
Uzbek SSR	622	931	2,178	3,976
Kazakh SSR	1,270	1,569	4,679	8,958
Georgian SSR	351	515	1,305	1,875
Azerbaijan SSR	426	576	1,301	2,039
Lithuanian SSR	66	266	1,146	1,541
Moldavian SSR	106	394	1,012	1,815
Latvian SSR	77	288	1,109	1,301
Kirghiz SSR	213	384	752	1,103
Tadzhik SSR	140	332	510	1,051
Armenian SSR	168	374	534	746
Turkmen SSR	274	272	457	775
Estonian SSR	56	207	417	514
USSR (total)	28,000	42,032	103,387	156,913