Abstract
This paper uses the recently discovered box-office ledger of the first-run cinema the Regent in Portsmouth, UK, to test the POPSTAT methodology for measuring film popularity in the general absence of such data. In order to do this a dataset of the film programs of all twenty-one cinemas screening films in the city in 1934 has been constructed from which a clear picture of film distribution and popularity emerges.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 52-84 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Journal | Cinema Journal |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |