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#12,741 All-time worldwide
#63 1976 releases

Movie profile

The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

1976 · 143 min · Harvard Productions

Documentary Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2,000
Budget $1,000
Gross minus budget $1,000
ROI 2.00x

Domestic gross

$800

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1,200

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$224

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #12,741 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1976 releases #63 Release-year chart position of 67 titles Ranked against movies released in 1976. Studio / company #1 Harvard Productions of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Harvard Productions movie set. Primary genre #194 Documentary of 204 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976) earned a reported $2.0K worldwide against a reported $1.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.00x. In this database it currently ranks #12,741 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #63 among 1976 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,000
Budget
$1,000
Gross minus budget
$1,000
ROI
2.00x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: Bernstein provides two distinct meanings of the term ambiguity. The first is "doubtful or uncertain" and the second, "capable of being understood in two or more possible senses"

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 11, 1976
Production
Harvard Productions
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1976, The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity is positioned in this dataset as a Documentary, Music title from Harvard Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2,000, reported production budget is $1,000, gross-minus-budget is $1,000, ROI is 2.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,741 all-time in the current chart set and #63 among 1976 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.