Matt,
Can the BFI help? We quite often receive similar type enquiries, audience
figures, and so on, which are easy for recent years but hard to trace
historically, so there does seem to be a bit of a resource gap here.
Sheena.
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>Sent: 28 February 2002 10:55
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>Subject: Inflation adjusted Hollywood Box-office figures
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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Please can you help - I have a student who wants inflation adjusted
>Hollywood Box-office figures also know as "grosses" or
>"rentals" from the
>1950's to date. The aim is to demonstrate rises and fall in cinema
>attendance over time. I note that www.filmsite.org has
>greatest films but
>that not really what we need. Also we have found 20 year time
>series in a
>chapter in Current Research in Film, Audiences, Economics and
>Law (only five
>volumes were produced and we have checked them all!) it says
>apply to author
>for the tables but that was twenty years ago. There is an
>entry in The New
>Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry which refers to the
>International Motion Picture Almanac - but we don't have
>access to it to
>check if the figures are in time series or just for one year.
>
>I am all at celluloid with this so any help is appreciated :->
>
>Matt
>
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