The Decline of the Cinema: An Economist's Report

admission prices areas average Board of Trade box-office takings British films Chapter cinema admissions cinema audience cinema closures Cinematograph closed closure of cinemas cost decline of admissions differences direct home effect Entertainments Duty estimate exhibitors expenditure on cinemas fact factors fall of admissions figures film hire film industry film shortage frequency of cinema-going going higher hire terms interregional Kine Weekly large chains large number less loss of admissions Midland million admissions National Circuit North Western number of cinemas Odeon and Gaumont percentage popular films population densities price increases price leaders price leadership producers programme proportion prosperous group Rank and ABC Rank Organization Rank release Readership Surveys reason regions releasing circuits rental renters rural cinemas sample Scotland share shortage of films small cinemas solo cinemas statistical subsidy Table television TELEVISION LICENCES third tion towns TV licences TV set viewers wage Wales