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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3486382" data-attributes="member: 20741">It's not my chart - it's Hollywood's. I believe it uses the Consumer Price Index to adjust for inflation over the course of years.In that regard, it's reasonably accurate.  The first number listed is adjusted dollars, the second number listed is reported dollars not adjusted for inflation.Gone with the Wind's #1 position is also distorted because a great portion of that box office was not earned in 1939 but over the course of the 40s and 50s.  More than any other film, the thing ran in movie houses forever.  After all, there was no TV to show it on for a good 16 years or so post release. Gone with the Wind was first shown on TV only in the mid-70s IIRC.  It made enough at the box office up until then to justify not showing it on TV for free.But it is adjusted in dollar terms right back to 1939 as if it made all of its money in that year - which it certainly did not.  So since the adjustment goes back to 1939 and the end of the depression  -  the dollar conversion when adjusted for inflation does wonders for adjusted value, giving it a multiplier of about 6.5.  A more accurate multiplier to take into account when it earned its money would be closer to 4.5 or thereabouts I would guess.The #1 movie, adjusted for inflation, more accurately viewed, would be Star Wars.</blockquote>