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This year marks the 65th anniversary of the peak
of British cinema-going, when an astonishing
1.6 billion tickets were sold – the equivalent of approximately 36 cinema visits per person per year. Of course, back in 1946 the cinema was the only place in which the British public could watch feature films. Television was still in its infancy
(the limited London service was re-introduced that year following its wartime hiatus) and the first trials of videotape recording at the BBC was another six years away. Both television and the VCR had a huge impact on cinema-going in the years that followed, and yet, as this Yearbook shows, our appetite for film has not diminished – in fact, it has increased
1.6 billion tickets were sold – the equivalent of approximately 36 cinema visits per person per year. Of course, back in 1946 the cinema was the only place in which the British public could watch feature films. Television was still in its infancy
(the limited London service was re-introduced that year following its wartime hiatus) and the first trials of videotape recording at the BBC was another six years away. Both television and the VCR had a huge impact on cinema-going in the years that followed, and yet, as this Yearbook shows, our appetite for film has not diminished – in fact, it has increased
In 2010, we watched feature films on 4.6 billion
occasions, that’s around 81 films per person. We
now inhabit a far more complex multi-platform
world of digital film consumption and we can
experience film through DVD, Blu-ray, on free-to-air
and pay television, online, on mobile devices and
of course at the cinema, which remains the crucial
first step in the lifecycle of a film. 
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