[Tig] End Credits at the cinema

[Dominic Case]

>The credits are part of the
>film, until the last frame, --could there even be a SMPTE or
>BKSTS standard regarding this?

I think the only controlling authority on this would be the legal or
contractual one. Your contract specifies a certain credit placing, and
presumably the delivery contract to the distributor would require that
credits actually be shown - but you'd be hard-pressed to prove any
substantial loss of recognition as third assistant carpenter if a cinema in
Brasil cut the projector one night.

AS to the credits being part of the film, I was once asked for a ruling on
whether credits were included in a film's length: the producer had a
contract to deliver a ten minute film, and it was eight minutes plus credits
(I forget the real figures). The distributor argued they'd been
shortchanged. The producer said the credits were part of the film.

I said the lab charged for printing the full length of the film, and that
was an end to the matter as far as I could tell.

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Dominic Case
Atlab Australia
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