No2.time For The Credits To Roll

[Ascoyne D'Ascoyne]

In order not to sidetrack the interesting thread currently running, I decided to post another thought prompted by its title.
Is anybody else, like myself, irritated by the current trend of listing almost everybody involved in the making of a film (I don't think we've had the assistant to the relief tea- lady mentioned yet, but I'm waiting)in the final credits? Older films used to get this business over with in less than a minute (which still doesn't deter some vacuous TV announcer from destroying the after effects of a broadcast film by telling us about some entirely unrelated programme that is due to go out later) and told 99.99% of the audience all it wanted to know. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img]

[theuofc]

(Jeff @ Nov 28 2005, 01:27 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> In order not to sidetrack the interesting thread currently running, I decided to post another thought prompted by its title. Is anybody else, like myself, irritated by the current trend of listing almost everybody involved in the making of a film (I don't think we've had the assistant to the relief tea- lady mentioned yet, but I'm waiting)in the final credits? Older films used to get this business over with in less than a minute (which still doesn't deter some vacuous TV announcer from destroying the after effects of a broadcast film by telling us about some entirely unrelated programme that is due to go out later) and told 99.99% of the audience all it wanted to know. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img] [/b]

Hello, Jeff,

I agree. The endless list of credits is often tedious. While I like finding out more about the cast, cameramen, etc. than in the past, I don't need to know that Tom's Deli supplied the snacks for the crew. I wonder if this is union-driven, i.e. honor all workers involved....or is the name in the footlights-credits a tradeoff by the film company than a higher fee to the person credited? Dunno. What these long credits do is tempt people to walk out on the long list thus denying notice to the real artists and craftsmen in the wings who deserve mention amidst all the Deli places.

Barbara