Do you guys know this translation? sorry, but please help me. Audiences shrank and cinemas closed, reaching an all‐time low in 1984, when the total number of seats sold was only 54 million, so it’s somewhat surprising to note the revival which the cinema has been undergoing in recent years. Audiences are growing steadily, although they.re never likely to reach the figures of the years leading up to 1950, when cinema attendance was at its height. In the best year, 1946, more than 1,600 million tickets were sold.