If only the great wide world of cinema audiences knew exactly what happened.

The 1970s saw the cinema audience drop due to the spread of television.

'We can't talk about a cinema audience in general any more.

Cinema audiences at the Point dropped steadily in the early 1990s.

The number of films produced, and the cinema audience reached a peak in the 1960s.

The whole process in which cinema audiences were accumulated seemed natural and spontaneous.

However, after a few weeks, cinema audiences dropped dramatically and the moment of truth arrived.

By 1970 the regular cinema audience had become disproportion-ately young, middle class and male.

The introduction of television in 1956 saw that cinema audiences halved.

The Mexican film industry's predicament is even more surprising given the country's growing cinema audience.

Only Hollywood can talk about cinema audiences in general.

Because in 2011, the typical cinema audience is more likely to be demonised than celebrated.

But by 1950 cinema audiences were declining due largely to competition from the new rival - television.

During the period of the Great Depression in the late 1920s, the cinema audience had decreased significantly.

During the past decade, cinema audiences had evaporated like snow on a hotplate.

Despite much critical acclaim, some cinema audience even booed at the end of the screening.

I think cinema audiences are getting a bit frustrated with the overwhelming political correctness going on."

It also brought Welsh's book to an international cinema audience and added to the phenomenal popularity of the novel.

The dual billing was considered "one of the most moving and remarkable double bills ever offered to a cinema audience".

Beginning in the late 1950s, television began increasingly to dominate the leisure time of the formerly large and loyal Japanese cinema audience.

By the 1950s, it was becoming clear that television was eroding the size of cinema audiences.

Evidence suggests that cinema audiences are more receptive to advertising - although numbers are limited.

Michael Redgrave was also unknown to the cinema audience, but was a rising stage star at the time.

This comic was specially printed for the cinema audience for the film of the same title.

In the early 1960s one result of shrinking cinema audiences was the Sunday double bill of low budget horror movies.