[Tig] End Credits at the cinema

[Jeff Heusser]

Outside of Los Angeles we are often the only ones in the theater by  
the time visual effects credits come by (you know, last).  I have  
seen the projector stopped early as well... fortunately not often.   
When we first moved to Los Angeles we were amazed at how many people  
stay to the very end... gives you a clue at how many people are in  
the business here.

On TV I have noticed they have even gone as far as re-typing credits  
to roll them faster in the squished window - like not using the film  
at that point just rolling the names on black - fast.

Thank goodness for IMDB.com

Jeff
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On Feb 21, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Rob Lingelbach wrote:

> Thanks to Manny Cervantes and Glenn Chan
> for 2007.  Wiki available at http://www.colorist.org/wiki3
> ====
>
>
> I saw a film last night, Pursuit of Happyness (that's not a  
> misspelling), at the cinema in a small city in the interior of
> Brasil.  Unfortunately the print was horrible- extreme amounts
> of dirt, grain, barely visible portuguese subtitles, and the audio
> was so horrible I couldn't understand the english.
>
> This isn't that unusual for a small cinema though if common enough
> would make me change my mind about the value of going to see
> projected prints at a theatre.  But what put the icing on the cake
> was that about 2 minutes into the end credits, the projectionist
> stopped the film and pulled it from the projector.  The house lights
> had already come up when the credits started (this is common in
> Brasil: 99% of the time I am the only one in the theatre who watches
> the credits) so they were hard to read, but when they stopped.. I
> actually saw the projectionist pulling the film from the gate and
> unloading the projector.  I went to the manager and asked nicely  
> why I couldn't watch the whole film (explaining that the credits  
> are part of the film) and he offered to re-run them for me, which  
> was nice, but didn't really address the point that it is theatre  
> policy not to run them unless someone complains.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever run across this in the US (I've  
> never even seen the house lights come up during the end credits in  
> the US) or in other countries.   Come to think of it there is a  
> cable TV channel that, after a few seconds of the end credits,  
> swings them into a small compressed window to the side of the  
> screen while they promote their next program, making the credits  
> unreadable, and then they don't even continue past the length of  
> the unassociated promo.  It's frustrating if you're in the business  
> and want to see who did what, and hear the music chosen for the  
> sequence, etc.
>
> If anyone knows of a web reference where I can read about the  
> "failure of Credit Recogntion in feature films" I'd like to read  
> more about it.
>
> Rob
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