CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES (IN YUGOSLAVIA)
CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES (IN YUGOSLAVIA)

Summary/Abstract: According to official statistics the following cultural institutions were operating in Yugoslavia in 1969: 1,645 cinemas, 183 theaters (professional, children’s and amateur), over 14,000 libraries, 366 museums and museum collections, a large number of institutions and societies for so-called general culture, including 450 workers’ and people’s universities and about 1,300 culture and art clubs (there are no statistical data for cultural and similar centers). To these should be added 8 republican and provincial and 119 local radio and television stations which broadcast cultural programs for about 3,320,000 radio and about 1,550,000 TV subscribers, i. e. virtually for the entire population. There are furthermore 60 publishing houses which annually publish about 8,000 new books and pamphlets, close on 1,400 newspapers, about 1,200 periodicals, and over 20 film companies which in 1969 produced 34 feature firms and over 300 documentaries. About 32,000 people work in cultural institutions and enterprises, including several thousand creative and performing artists (writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, film and theater actors, etc.).

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