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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (ntt)
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Subject: All-time top grossers and inflation query
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Date: Wed, 10-Aug-83 18:28:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 10 18:28:50 1983
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All lists that I have seen that give the all-time most popular movies
are ranked on a basis of gross dollars.  Price increases make this
standard, well, not too meaningful over long periods.  One alternative
would be to correct to constant dollars; better yet would be to count
the number of admissions to the movie, because this is not affected by
inflation of unrelated prices (but how do you count children?).

Has anyone ever seen either kind of corrected list in print?
I would really like to know where Lucas and Spielberg properly rank
(which is not to say I'm not a fan of both, 'cause I am)!

  decvax!utzoo!dciem!ntt (Mark Brader, NTT Systems Inc., Toronto)