At 22:16 08/05/2000 -0700, you wrote:

>I'm working on an article about film credits appearing at the end of the
>movie.

[...]

>I believe that the first film where this occurred was Star Wars but Lucasfilm
>couldn't confirm this for me.

I can give you a much earlier example - CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (1938).

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