American remittances from UK cinemas
year to end October
remittances
£m
1940
4.8
1941
5.7
1942
8.5
1943*
26.5
1944
15.6
1945
17.0
*Some remittances had been blocked from 1940 to 1942 and were released in 1943
Source: Board of Trade, quoted in Dickinson and Street: Cinema and State[0077]
