Newspaper and magazine reviews of films are usually written in advance of a film's general release. Typical audience members' responses to films from the latter part of the twentieth century are easy to determine . Film historians do not believe that film reviews in newspapers and magazines reveal typical film audience members' views. Films from the early part of the twentieth century were not usually reviewed in newspapers or magazmes.
Film historians often find it difficult to determine typical audience members' responses to particular films, especially those from the early twentieth century. Box office figures help little, for they indicate only a film' s financial success or failure; they do not show what audiences found funny, or frightening, or moving. These historians also find that newspaper and magazine reviews fail to provide much insight.
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above?