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Post by kims on Aug 11, 2024 0:28:57 GMT
Drat I've given up trying to find where we discussed this before, so I'm starting this thread. Besides not being able to see some TCM films on a streaming service, I am disappointed that credits of movies (TCM is good about running the credits) and tv shows are either cut or made a window so small on the screen, it's impossible to read.
I'm one of those people who reads the credits. I'm aware that some billing is by contract, some by union rules. I think it unfair that people who had a credit on a movie or tv show can have their name unseen in reruns. Seems futile to get a credit if the broadcaster can make the credits impossible to read or cut entirely. Did the latest writers' strike include that as an issue? Probably not, their credit is usually at the start only. I find it a nuisance to go to IMDB or other online sources to find the name of a supporting actor, who the stunt people were, etc.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Aug 12, 2024 12:09:57 GMT
I can't answer your question, but I'm glad you asked it. In some cases it seems as though, rather than simply being shrunk, the credits have actually been redone in a different font and possibly abbreviated in the process, so it would be interesting to know how that compromise was arrived at and with whose approval. I like to read credits too, especially to find out where movies were filmed, but my old eyes can't always cope with credits on a TV screen anyway, let alone ones which have been shrunk or shuttled off to one side of the screen so they can show some stupid promo while the credits are still running. Maybe it's because credits are so difficult to read on a TV screen anyway that the tampering is allowed? Or it could be one of those things broadcasters simply took it upon themselves to do, waiting to see if they'd be challenged and nobody has because it's a gray area with no specific rules and unions have bigger fish to fry? Hopefully someone will know.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Aug 13, 2024 15:22:02 GMT
Valid points and questions all, Kims and ILoveMelvin.
I, like you, watch credits. On the rare occasions that I actually go to the theater, I am always the last one out, waiting fully until the lights go up. Aside from the points you two have raised already, I have always felt that dismissing the credits is a display of personal disrespect to each individual whose name is included, who poured his or her work, worry, time, attention, and affection into performing whatever part of the filmmaking process it was theirs to do. If their name is listed, they helped to make the whole thing happen, and they deserve the same respect as the stars or directors or anyone else.
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Post by sagebrush on Aug 13, 2024 22:22:47 GMT
Has anyone witnessed the credit roll which is sped up AND in a split-screen? That's really disappointing to see.  |
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Post by kims on Aug 13, 2024 23:13:20 GMT
Oh, you mean that blur on one side of the screen! I suppose the broadcasters can say they didn't cut the credits. They are sidestepping some law(?) like ads for drug and lawyers where there's some fine print at the bottom of the screen. My fave is the sped up vocals on those commercials. How fast can the vocal be sped up and still be intelligible?!
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Post by gerald424 on Aug 14, 2024 0:00:04 GMT
Has anyone witnessed the credit roll which is sped up AND in a split-screen? That's really disappointing to see.
It irritates me also when they go by so fast. When I was younger my friends would get angry with me. They were ready to leave the theater, I would sit and read the credits. Then Marvel forced movie fans to watch the credits hoping for some extra scene.
Decades ago I got to see a taping of a TV show. The "credits" was some guy sitting in a chair turning a crank. Apparently, the credits were on a clear plastic film. And he was turning this crank and they were rolling by. I guess they super impose them onto the screen somehow. So I guess it sometimes depends on how fast the guy turns the crank.
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