Patterns of Production and Employment in Hollywood

Abstract

AT ANY given time the majority of individuals associated with the motion picture industry are well aware of the state of production: of the amount of shooting in progress on each of the lots and locations. Moreover, the older associates can distinguish good years from bad over a lengthy portion of the industry's history, and understand many of the reasons for these distinctions between them. But there is no clear impression of the pattern of production as it fluctuates week by week over a fairly long period, and it would therefore be instructive to persons inside the industry, as well as those outside it who are concerned with seasonal and