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.