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Cinemagoing in Portsmouth during the 1930s
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 46, Number 1, Fall 2006
- pp. 52-84
- 10.1353/cj.2007.0005
- Article
- Additional Information
This paper uses the recently discovered box-office ledger of the first-run cinema the Regent in Portsmouth, U.K., 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.