I saw Spiderman: Far From Necessary over the weekend and, like everyone else in the cinema, I sat through the entire end crawl to watch the ‘post-credits scene’ that has become so ubiquitous among superhero movies.
Stephen, did you look at the shift from celluloid to digital projection as an economic factor facilitating the growth of end credit length? 4 - 6 minutes of end credits on celluloid could add several weeks of labor depending on whether they were white on black or if they were over filmed footage, and would equate to another 400-600 feet of film that would have to be processed, printed, and shipped to theaters. *great content and humor (“:Far From Necessary”) per usual!
Stephen, did you look at the shift from celluloid to digital projection as an economic factor facilitating the growth of end credit length? 4 - 6 minutes of end credits on celluloid could add several weeks of labor depending on whether they were white on black or if they were over filmed footage, and would equate to another 400-600 feet of film that would have to be processed, printed, and shipped to theaters. *great content and humor (“:Far From Necessary”) per usual!
you're onto something. no sane studio would send an extra reel just for end credits
And of course extra celluloid costs money whereas extra digital is almost free.
Good stuff, and thank you for sharing!
Virtually everything by the Zucker Brothers et al had fantastic credits - parody just ain't the same these days, sadly.
Interesting!
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