The rise and fall of film genres

There was a time when most movies were Westerns, and you’d almost never find a comedy on the big screen. After that musicals took off in a big way and people started to wonder whether thrillers would work as films.

This great set of graphs is the work of Bo McCready who is the director of research at the Madison Metropolitan School District. He has a knack for good visuals and from the Tableau hashtag in his Twitter bio has experience with that software as a dashboard.