56 pages - Strasbourg, October 2011

Audiovisual Media for Children in Europe:

The Theatrical Circulation of European Children’s Films;
Television for Children

A special thematic report commissioned for the 25th anniversary of CINEKID, the international festival for film, television and new media for young people.
The report was presented at the CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS Conference in October 2011.

Report in English with an Executive Summary in English, French and German

A report by
Martin Kanzler
Susan Newman-Baudais
European Audiovisual Observatory

 

A special report prepared for the 25th anniversary of the CINEKID Festival (Amsterdam) in October 2011, ‘Audiovisual Media for Children in Europe’ covers two different aspects of children’s use of media. The first section of the report focuses on the theatrical market for children’s films in Europe. Using an extensive data sample, it examines the production of live action and animation films for children, their circulation among European countries and looks at how these films perform on theatrical markets across Europe. The second section looks at two aspects of television for children in Europe. The first aspect studied is the supply of channels for younger viewers and the evolution in the availability of channels since 1990. This section then looks at the programming of animation – generally aimed at younger viewers – on a selection of 137 channels available in Europe, and analyses the relative importance of European animation in the programming mix.

Synthèse : Les médias audiovisuels pour enfants en Europe
Executive Summary: Audiovisuelle Medien für Kinder in Europa

PART 1: THE THEATRICAL CIRCULATION OF EUROPEAN CHILDREN'S FILMS

Introduction: objectives of the analysis

The data sample

Production of European children’s films

Theatrical circulation of European children's films

Performance of European children's films

The most successful European children's films

The role of non-national markets for the performance of European children's films

PART 2: TELEVISION FOR CHILDREN IN EUROPE

TV channels for children: the European landscape

Animation on European TV

FIGURES AND TABLES

Figures

Figure 1:	Data sample in relation to the total market volume in terms of admissions 2001 - 2010
Figure 2:	Live action children's films’ share of total fiction feature production 2001 - 2010
Figure 3:	Children's film production by region and as % of total fiction production 2001 - 2010
Figure 4:	Mean number of release markets by film type and region 2001 - 2010
Figure 5:	Percentage of European live action children's films by number of release markets
Figure 6:	Admissions and number of films released by region 2001 - 2010
Figure 7:	Median admissions for European children's films by region of origin 2001 - 2010
Figure 8:	Percentage of European live action children's films by admission bandwidths
Figure 9:	Comparison of national vs. non-national admissions by film type
Figure 10:	Percentage of films with non-national release by region of origin 2001 - 2010
Figure 11:	Share of non-national admissions by region of origin 2001 - 2010
Figure 12:	Number of television channels by genre in Europe estimated 1990 - 2010
Figure 13:	Number of children’s channels available per country
Figure 14:	Number of children’s channels established in major territories
Figure 15:	Share of animation in fiction of all origins broadcast in Europe 2009
Figure 16:	Origin of animation broadcast in Europe 2009
Figure 17:	Share of European animation by country in 2009

Tables

Table 1:	Live action children's films by country of origin 2001 – 2010
Table 2:	Top 25 European animation films for children 2001 - 2010
Table 3:	Top 25 European live action films for children 2001 - 2010
Table 4:	European children’s animation films with highest non-national admissions 2001 - 2010
Table 5:	European children's live action films with highest non-national admissions 2001 - 2010
Table 6:	National television channels for children
Table 7:	Foreign national children’s channels
Table 8:	Pan-European children’s channels
Table 9:	Importance of domestic animation production type