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From: wolpert@hpisla.UUCP (wolpert)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: movie dollars
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 18:26:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 18:26:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpisla!wolpert    Aug 27 14:26:00 1984

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maybe a better measure of how "big" a movie is would be
the number of people that saw it...
movie tickets have gone up in price faster in the past
few years than would be accounted for by "mere" 
inflation. In 1939, it cost my mother 10 cents to go
to a movie (a double feature, with cartoons, newsreel,
serial, etc) (at least, that's what she said. Actually,
it was "a quarter for the trip: two bus fares, a movie,
and a Coke (r)").
So maybe rather than adjusting for inflation, we should
be dividing by the average admission price (whatever
that is...)
     d.wolpert
     loveland, CO