Martial arts films have been produced all over the world, but the genre has been dominated by Hong Kong action cinema, peaking from 1971 with the rise of Bruce Lee until the mid 1990s with a general decline in the industry.

An exception to the decline of the musical film is Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly Bombay ), where the majority of films have been and still are musicals.

However the burlesque theatres here were prohibited from having striptease performances in a legal ruling of 1937 leading to the later decline of these " grindhouses " ( named after the bump ' n grind entertainment on offer ) into venues for exploitation cinema.

Walsall's first cinema opened in the town centre in 1908 ; however, the post World War II decline in cinema attendances brought on by the rise in television ownership resulted in that and all of Walsall's other cinemas eventually being closed.

By the time building restrictions were lifted in the mid 1950s, cinema admissions were in decline.

With the rise of the double feature as a cinema programming format, 2-reel shorts went into decline as a commercial category.

It operated as a commercial cinema as one of six in the Craven Cinemas chain, until the decline of British cinema forced its closure in 1966.

From 1972 the Greek cinema went through a period of decline because of the introduction of television, but Vlahopoulou continued to star in films for the next seven years.

Thomas Schatz sees the mid to late 1970s as the decline of the art cinema movement as a significant industry force with its peak in 1974-75 with Nashville and Chinatown.

Once a town centre with a cinema, modern 1960s precinct and local quality butcher's, baker's and grocer's, it saw decline in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The town centre gained a cinema, on the corner of Mason Street and Birmingham New Road, during the 1930s, part of the Clifton chain, but this closed in January 1963 as a result of the postwar decline in cinema audiences brought on by the rising popularity of home television.

However, the burlesque theatres there were prohibited from having striptease performances in a legal ruling of 1937, leading to the later decline of these " grindhouses " ( named after the bump ' n grind entertainment on offer ) into venues for exploitation cinema.

In 1967, the Cineclube do Porto sponsored a Week of Portuguese Cinema, where many filmmakers from the blossoming Cinema Novo movement screened films and discussed " the precarious situation of Portuguese cinema in the marketplace, and the decline of the film club movement.

Pallardy's career dwindled in the 1980s, with the decline of France's exploitation cinema, and his movies became few and far between.

Indeed, after 1980, few Dutch films managed to bring crowds of millions to the cinemas, partly due to a decline in interest, partly due to home video systems which resulted in an overall drop in cinema attendance in the Netherlands.

A decline in cinema admission set in after the 1970s.

Although some denominations thrived, after World War II there was a steady overall decline in church attendance and resulting church closures for most denominations.

For instance, some sociologists have argued that steady church attendance and personal religious belief may coexist with a decline in the influence of religious authorities on social or political issues.

The UUA has, for the first time, also reported decline in average weekly attendance to 100, 693 people.

The change was prompted in part by a decline in Congregational attendance that began in 1828 when its popular pastor, John Gleed, a fellow fossil collector, left for the United States to campaign against slavery.

Similar patterns of small declines from already high figures can be seen in the areas of graduation rates ( 0. 4 % decline, from 95 % to 94. 6 %) and attendance ( 0. 1 % decline, from 97. 3 % to 97. 2 %).

" But owing to the decline of the local economy, many of the young men and women in attendance would have to move elsewhere in order find work.

However this fell into rapid decline ; the last horse trading fair took place in 1911 with only eleven horses and one donkey in attendance.

Women's rights, disrespectful children, low church attendance, and sexual promiscuity became symptoms of decline in family values and of moral decay.

In 1983, Sounds President Larry Schmittou noticed a 5 % drop in season ticket sales, a higher ratio of no-shows from season ticket holders, and a slight decline in overall attendance.

While other factors have also played a role, the scandals in the Catholic Church have contributed to a steep decline in church attendance among Irish Catholcs.

The Destroyers initially attracted high attendance levels, but a lack of winning early on caused attendance to decline, something from which the team never recovered.

With their core players ( Marshall, Ursella, Buland, Lyle, and Chicken ) gone, the Marines were unable to regain their pre-war form causing attendance to decline after 1919.

The Outlaws and Locomotives have done better drawing fans to Sam Boyd Stadium than the Posse did, with the Outlaws averaging over 20, 000 fans per game and the Locomotives averaging 12, 000 fans, although the Locomotives ' attendance has been in decline.

In 2009, the park had a six percent decline in attendance, which a park spokesman attributed to bad weather, although many other theme parks in the United States suffered attendance drops that year, as often happens to relatively high-priced tourist attractions in recessions.

As for other churches in Scotland attendance has declined over recent years: the overall figures reflect rises in some dioceses and decline in others.

Owing to the decline in attendance after the retirement of Mercedes and Juan Manuel Fangio, the AvD returned the German GP to AVUS in 1959.

This decline in attendance was attributed to several factors.

Other issues influencing some groups were the ordination of women, and the decline in attendance of many of the mainline denominations through the 1950s to the 1980s in the US, while many conservative churches were growing.

Kingston Park is the third biggest stadium in the RFU Championship even so the attendance has been in steady decline in recent years with an average crowd of 4, 500.

Total park attendance increased 9 % to 880, 001 despite a below average year for concerts at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre and a decline in cross-over attendance from the Canadian National Exhibition.

`` A ' dust-settling ' period of decadence and decline ''.

It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

The Empire of Akkad collapsed in 2154 BC, within 180 years of its founding, ushering in a period of regional decline that lasted until the rise of the Third Dynasty of Ur in 2112 BC.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica.

Largest decline was noted in Outback NT, while Kimberley and Pilbara showed population increase during the same period.

The islands prospered economically until the middle of the Nineteenth Century, when a combination of the abolition of slavery in the Territory, a series of disastrous hurricanes, and the growth in the sugar beet crop in Europe and the United States significantly reduced sugar cane production and led to a period of economic decline.

A period of large trade deficits and improper real estate investment hit Bulgaria hard during the late-2000s recession, resulting in a 5. 5 % GDP decline in that period, a rise in unemployment, and spending at least five quarters in its worst recession since the early 1980s.

Hosea () prophesied during a dark and melancholic era of Israel's history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC.

The 15th to the 19th centuries were a period of continued decline and territorial loss.

* Post Bayon Style ( 1243 – 1431 ): Following the period of frantic construction under Jayavarman VII, Angkorian architecture entered the period of its decline.

There was a progressive decline in biodiversity during the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period prior to the suggested ecological crisis induced by events at the K – Pg boundary ( K – T boundary ).

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

Smaller pterosaurs became extinct prior to the Maastrichtian during a period that saw a decline in smaller animal species while larger species became more prevalent.

The six-year period after 1931 — when the cane toad was most prolific, and the white-grub saw dramatic decline — saw the highest-ever rainfall for Puerto Rico.

This period, known as the Great Darkness ended with the Quiet Revolution and the party went into terminal decline.

The period in which the decline occurred had a great many potential culprits.

And the defense effort throughout the period from 1960 to 1987 contributed only marginally to economic decline.

At the end of the colonial period, the number of enslaved people in Delaware began to decline.

During this period of decline in disco's popularity, several record companies folded, were reorganized, or were sold.

The game launched the dynasty era of the 49ers while beginning the period of decline for Cowboys coach Tom Landry.