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UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based Learning Center
Statistics -- Table Five
Selected Movie Theatres in Shanghai, 1930s-1940s
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Theatre | Seats | Year built | Ownership, films shown, notes |
| Apollo (Aipulu) | - | - | second-run Hollywood |
| Astro (Huguang) | 1,200 | 1939 | first-run Huacheng (Xinhua) films |
| Capitol (Guanglu) | - | 1928 | British-owned, first-run Paramount |
| Cathay (Guotai) | - | 1932 | first-run Hollywood |
| Empress (Huanghou) | 665 | 1942 | first-run Hollywood & domestic |
| Grand (Daguangming) | 1,400 | 1928 | 1933 renovated |
| Grand | 1,961 | 1933 renovated | first-run Columbia, Warner, etc. |
| Guanghua | - | - | second-run Hollywood & domestic |
| Jincheng | 1,800 | 1934 | first-run Lianhua, Xinhua, etc. |
| Lanxin (former New Carlton) | - | - | first-run Hollywood |
| Nanking (Nanjing) | 1,500 | 1930 | first-run Fox, Universal, etc. |
| New Palace (Xinzhongyang) | 750 | 1910 | third-run Hollywood & domestic |
| Paris (Bali) | - | - | second-run Hollywood |
| Roxy (Dahua, former Embassy to 1934) | 800 | 1939 renovated & renamed | second-run in to 1934, first-run MGM 1939-41 &1947-9, Japanese films 1941-5 |
| Star (Mingxing) | - | - | third-run Hollywood & domestic |
| Strand (Xinguang) | 1,180 | - | first-run Paramount, Universal, etc. |
| Wiley (Weili) | - | - | second-run Hollywood |
* Theatres that are already mentioned in Table 2.1 are not included here unless a name change occurred.
Sources: S. Cheng et al. 1927; J. Zhang and Cheng 1995; ZDZ 1996a: 191-8.
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