It's a myth that the movie business was booming during the Depression. For one thing, there wasn't as much repeat business back then. A movie came out, played theaters for a while and then that was it. |
It's not the list, but a list. |
There's always something arbitrary when you limit a list to a fixed number. There easily could be 100 for another book. |
Unless it's a long-standing conflict like World War II or Vietnam, whose effects we saw on the movies for years, most recessions are too small to really impact the content of movies. |