http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/moviedata.html
This website puts the number of films released in 1939 at 761. Some of the releases may be foreign features (Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn and the like) but foreign titles had to be a small percent of the overall number.
Eric,
I really have no interest in a 'where exactly do you draw a line in the sand' debate. But in a time where Spielberg tells us that we are watching a version of Jaws that is better than what viewers saw in the theaters in 1975 ... I'm just not getting too high on my horse.
Antonio ... perhaps it's time to lay off the espresso. SteveJKo very politely supported your post while making one rather glaring (to me) correction. Rather than just dealing with that you posted some meaningless data that I called you out on. It happens. Deal.
Nonsensical. "Per Capita" is meaningless data to discuss the habits of the movie-going public as it includes the non-movie-going public. Obviously the number is much higher when the number is ONLY the movie-going public (whether that is once per year or most nights). Averages also don't tell...
My favorite scene in BE KIND REWIND (2008) is a scene where adults and children alike are mesmerized by the story unfolding before them. Even though the video is projected on a bed-sheet, even with amateurish acting and special effects.
That resonates with me, because, first and foremost, it's...