Why do they bother with end credits anymore?

[Deja Q]

TV shows. End credits sequences get shoved further to the right of the screen to make more room for show/product advertisements. With 1/5th the screen available for credits, they're so squished that you can't read them at all.

So save the effort, what's the point? All the stars' names get their names at the start... so so what about the rest? (I do care, but networks don't.)

[Don_G]

1. What About Movies

A film released by, film produced by, directed by....

It's five freakin' minutes before they get to the title of the damm movie anymore.

[sundog]

2. In older movies, all the credits were put at the beginning...

and the end was just THE END (fade out)...

[ashling]

3. But it was limited

to the producer, director, stars, and maybe supporting actors. none of the crew got credits.

[sundog]

6. yeah, that is strange...

I wonder if there was some kind of law that was initiated to require that everyone receive credit... because the majority of pre-80's film follows the "credits at the beginning" format...

Even "Jaws" for example... the end credits are TINY, I mean TINY... and you know there had to be hundreds upon hundreds of people on that production. That was 1975...

I don't have enough film history to recall when & why the change in credits occurred.

[ashling]

12. Unions! (God Bless 'em)

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. And voicing over the theme music

I hate that.

[Wapsie B]

5. I like the end credits on movies.

Some movies will have outtakes from the film which can be better than the movie itself.

[wtmusic]

7. Why does a director get "A film by..." credit

when he has nothing to do with the screenplay?

:grr:

[countmyvote4real]

8. I think it's a union and guild thing. n/t

[progdonkey]

9. it's a union thing

About twenty-five years ago or so, the unions really started to fight for being named in the credits. Simply, they just wanted recognition that it wasn't just the stars and the director who alone made the movie.

It's only in the last 10 years that the TV studios realized they could just push the credits over to one side and show previews; the only limitation is that the names on the credits have to be legible.

I do think it gets a bit ludicrous when they have the listing for the "2nd Unit Deputy Assisstant Director's Hairstylist," but they're all at the end and I'm leaving the theater anyway.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

10. To make you scream and bitch

And whine, I guess. ;)

Heh heh.

[sleipnir]

11. It takes an army to make a movie/tv show and GD lets honor them!!

The little thanks these people get is worth the few seconds that go by at the end of a film or a show. Trust me, the Unions will be on this soon, and we'll probably see the end of the disrespecting TV stations that fuck with the end credits. JFC...the people that are working their ass off for the station to get them ratings deserve a little credit, not to get bumped for some lame "Friends" plug!!!! I'm really pissed about this issue, as I work in technical production, and I'm sure it will be rectified in the future.