_Who's That Knocking at My Door_ credits Berthune and Keitel, but the rest are deferred to the end. _Tommy_ would be like this, since it credits Stigwood, Russell, and The Who. Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Cracks in the Fourth Wall Filmworks/Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! (with special musical guest Leila Josefowicz) "Who's John Adams?" --Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., at Monticello, after failing to recognize busts of other founding fathers. On Tue, 9 May 2000, Donald Larsson wrote: > Sharon Knolle requests: > > > > I'm working on an article about film credits appearing at the end of the > > movie. > > Examples where this happens: All Star Wars films, Ronin, Titanic, The X-Files > > movie, The Matrix, and also Gladiator. > > I believe that the first film where this occurred was Star Wars but Lucasfilm > > couldn't confirm this for me. > > A colleague suggested Lucas would have needed a special dispensation to be > > able to run the credits after the film: but from who? > > the director's guild? actors guild? All help appreciated. > > If you have other examples of films with end credits or know of any > > documentation on this trend, please send them my way. > > Thank you. > > The first relatively contemporary film that I'm aware of running > credits at the end was APOCALYPSE NOW. There were a number of comments > about it at the time. > > I also seem to recall seeing an older film (in black & white?) not too > long ago, where I was surprised to see the deferred credits--but my > memory may be playing tricks on me . . . again. > > Don Larsson > > ---------------------- > Donald Larsson > Minnesota State U, Mankato > [log in to unmask] > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu