Talk:Closing credits

message: In the US, are credits manditory for the broadcasters that air programs? If they wanted to make more money, they could easily eliminate them, so there has to be a reason to air them.
Do they also have to air the full credits on a show, if provided? If so, GSN is in a heap of trouble!
:I don't know, but the article asserts that this only happens in the US. I can only vouch for the UK, but many sets of credits are not only split-screened, but they represent an almost picture-in-picture with a number of other image or video streams. TomB123 (talk) 20:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: credits are now required by film makers unions. 100 years ago, they weren't and you'll find that with older movies the credits were minimal. Some of the more popular films would put a short credits list at the begining of a film, this was meant as advertising for the director and the main actors so people would know who they are and want to see more of them. Rarely was more than a few names listed. Over the years crew members started asking to be in the credits so they could prove they worked on a film and use it to get more work. It was up to the producer to decide if they allowed it. By the 1970's it became a union rule that all films and TV shows required an end credits sequence and that all union members must be in the credits. There are exceptions for non speaking roles and cameos. The reality is most people who work on a film want their name in the credits and will enforce the union rules. As for costs: it's minimal. You can make the credits pretty small and make them go by quickly and it still fits the unions rules, so if you see a long slow credits crawl its simply the produer (or directors) choice and they could obviously afford it. They often used scrap ends of film or short pieces they wouldn't want to use for important scenes anyway. And of course with modern films being digital, theres no film being wasted at all. Theres far more film (or harddrive space) being wasted on alternate takes and reshoots than will ever be wasted on the credits. A film might use 8 hours or more of filming to get enough material to edit down to a 5 minute scene on screen. As opposed to a 5 minute end credit that only uses 5 minutes of space because it only got shot once.--Omniwolf (talk) 17:07, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This title goes to Aliens Verses Predator at 12 minutes long but is never mentioned anywhere. A google shows up newground saying Lord of the rings, several sites mentioning guesses. I don't know what would count I guess I could upload a film of the credits to youtube? Can someone message me? I don't use wiki that much to edit. But I only ever make serious edits when something is so blindingly wrong.
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:So you're saying that the closing credits could be over no sooner the last piano chord of "I'd do anything for love (But I won't do that)" ends (full version of the song, that is)? --Marce 13:43, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest length closing credits 

message: What movie was the first to feature the extended closing credit sequence that we see today, eg showing everybody from the caterer to hairdresser? Butcam 08:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone asked George Lucas about it during the making of one of the Star Wars movies, and Lucas replied that it began with a young director who thought it would be nice to give credit to everyone, and play some music as well, so that moviegoers wouldn't have to leave the cinema amid silence. That young director was Lucas himself, and the movie was American Graffiti. I don't have a citation, though, but I read it in a bookstore in a glossy "Star Wars" book. --Kjoonlee 10:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been a while since I checked back here for an answer, so thanks for that. I'll see if I can dig up a source. Butcam (talk) 18:31, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First full-length closing credits 

message: The sesame street image is, IMO, not a good illustration for this article, partly because of the blurry and illegible text (looks like two frames on top of eachother), but also because the image containts so many things that bring focus away from the actual text (which should be the most important thing), so it's hard to know what to look for. Maybe a standard black/white roll from some movie would be better? 84.217.140.70 17:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sesame street image, bad choice?

message: I know that in some comedy movies and TV shows, made-up names are stuck into the credits just for extra fun. 
I can't think of any specific examples right now, though.
:: ^ virtually every one of the "ZAZ" productions (Zucker + Abrahams + Zucker, such as "Airplane" and "Naked Gun") -- and also the Monty Python films. Those are the most notorious, methinks. 199.214.26.180 22:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Humorous Credits 

message: I really think that this page needs an order on how the credits are ordered. I am making a mini-movie for YouTube and I want to make a good looking closing credits. Thanks! --71.236.186.24 (talk) 04:33, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order? 

message: The usage of Outro is under discussion, see talk:outro -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 07:25, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "Outro"

message: Credit crunching is mentioned, but not a crunch box.
See question number four.— Vchimpanzee •  talk • contributions •  17:56, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a crunch box? 

message: It would be helpful to know why clsong credits on TV are so often placed against black backgrounds nowadays, as opposed to the past where they always had pictorial backgrounds, or at least some kind of wallpaper behind the text. Obviously credit squeezing is a factor, but that doesn't explain why they can't be different colours. Lee M (talk) 03:08, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV closing credits