Movie Credits

[WobblySam]

My wife and I watched the comic book movie "Avengers:Endgame" for a little mindless fun. It was about 3 hours long and was pretty much what you would expect from a comic book movie.

The end credits rolled for about 9 or 10 minutes. We looked at them and decided there were probably more people involved in making that movie than there was for the moon mission in '69.

I remember those old contract movies the studios made in the '30s and '40s. The credits would have about 20 to 25 people including the actors. Of course, no special effects or digital artists.

 

[noogies]

By far the biggest inflation is in the number of producers: producers, executive producers, co-executive producers, associate producers, supervising producers, production design producers ... always at least a dozen and quite frequently more.

Back in the day, you got one producer and maybe if was a mega-dollar picture, perhaps an associate producer. I don't know the function of all these new-fangled producers they have now.

 

[FONSguy]

Actually many folks never got their names IN the credits. Do a little background research on the making of King Kong. They were using over 80 Mitchell cameras just for special effects!

 

[Tom Brennan]

I remember those old contract movies the studios made in the '30s and '40s. The credits would have about 20 to 25 people including the actors. Of course, no special effects or digital artists.

In the studio system most of the people involved had steady jobs. I read that now that most people making movies don't have steady jobs it's beneficial for them to have a credit, that it helps get them more work.

 

[MaxxVolume]

Also, Back In The Day, they ALWAYS rolled the credits in the beginning of the film, so you could not avoid seeing them....