Whenever somebody comes up with the films with the biggest box office sales, you KNOW there is plenty of question about the validity of the stats. When ticket sales are eight dollars or ten dollars or whatever apiece, the box office champions will ALWAYS be recent films.
No film will EVER have the popularity of 1939's Gone With the Wind. Movies were a more central part of people's lives than they are now, for people back then didn't have television or DVDs or iPods or the internet as alternatives to film. The only alternative to films back in the 1930s was radio, and of course people couldn't actually see the action--they had to visualize it in their minds. They had to go to movie theaters for that.
Although the writer of the piece doesn't mention it, D.W. Griffith's outrageously racist The Birth of a Nation (1915) probably ranks near the top of all time attendance records.
Anyway, attendance records may be more important. Ticket sales have been jacked up through the roof in order to compensate for fewer people attending movie theaters.
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