What was the first movie to have the credits at the end of a movie?!
Question: You'll have to push it much further back because Universal routinely ran cast listings during its films in the Thirties, including the Frankenstein series, "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff and other entries in its line of extremely popular monster movies. Over the end credits, you will see this: "A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating".
It wasn't until the Seventies, as a couple of posters have noted, that people routinely began complete listings, from cast to technicians. Thank George Lucas for this wonderful addition because the end credits for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" are much briefer than those for "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope". If I recall, Georege Lucas might have been the first to have that lengthy credit crawl after each film, ensuring that everyone connected with the film is noted. Stuntpeople have become routinely credited, too.
I would have to do some research to see which films had the first end credits. Many of them open with fairly good credits following the title. Occasionally, a film will have pictures of the actors and actresses with their names beneath either in opening or closing credits. I really enjoy those because, unless you are a fan of a particular less-known actor, it can be difficult to identify someone unless you know his or her character's name.
From Wikipedia:
The use of closing credits in film to list complete production crew and cast was not firmly established in American film until the 1970s. Before this decade, closing credits usually consisted only of a list of the major cast members, and in many cases, particularly in silent films, movies were released with no closing credits at all. For instance, David Lean's version of "Oliver Twist" (1948) lists all who had a speaking part in the film, plus all of the major credits, at the beginning. The final credits list only the cast of characters. Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" (2005), on the other hand, lists everyone, cast as well as crew, who worked on the picture and boasts quite a long list of closing credits.
Unfortunately, I can't find the earliest instance. It does go back to the Silents, depending on the film, as has been noted. I recall seeing sometimes as many as two screensful of large-type names while working on a project of mine about obscure actors and actresses. I have notebooks packed with credits!
Answers: You'll have to push it much further back because Universal routinely ran cast listings during its films in the Thirties, including the Frankenstein series, "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff and other entries in its line of extremely popular monster movies. Over the end credits, you will see this: "A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating".
It wasn't until the Seventies, as a couple of posters have noted, that people routinely began complete listings, from cast to technicians. Thank George Lucas for this wonderful addition because the end credits for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" are much briefer than those for "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope". If I recall, Georege Lucas might have been the first to have that lengthy credit crawl after each film, ensuring that everyone connected with the film is noted. Stuntpeople have become routinely credited, too.
I would have to do some research to see which films had the first end credits. Many of them open with fairly good credits following the title. Occasionally, a film will have pictures of the actors and actresses with their names beneath either in opening or closing credits. I really enjoy those because, unless you are a fan of a particular less-known actor, it can be difficult to identify someone unless you know his or her character's name.
From Wikipedia:
The use of closing credits in film to list complete production crew and cast was not firmly established in American film until the 1970s. Before this decade, closing credits usually consisted only of a list of the major cast members, and in many cases, particularly in silent films, movies were released with no closing credits at all. For instance, David Lean's version of "Oliver Twist" (1948) lists all who had a speaking part in the film, plus all of the major credits, at the beginning. The final credits list only the cast of characters. Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" (2005), on the other hand, lists everyone, cast as well as crew, who worked on the picture and boasts quite a long list of closing credits.
Unfortunately, I can't find the earliest instance. It does go back to the Silents, depending on the film, as has been noted. I recall seeing sometimes as many as two screensful of large-type names while working on a project of mine about obscure actors and actresses. I have notebooks packed with credits!
Weird I was wondering that myself after watching a movie called Peeping Tom. It was made in the 60s. I'm thinking somewhere in the later 60s early 70s they started making the credits at the end.
the first movie was not documented but the use of closing credits in film to list complete production crew and cast was not firmly established in American film until the 1970s. Before this decade, closing credits usually consisted only of a list of the major cast members, and in many cases, particularly in silent films, movies were released with no closing credits at all. For instance, David Lean's version of Oliver Twist (1948) lists all who had a speaking part in the film, plus all of the major credits, at the beginning. The final credits list only the cast of characters. Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist (2005), on the other hand, lists everyone, cast as well as crew, who worked on the picture, and boasts quite a long list of closing credits.
As in motion pictures, most television programs until relatively recently did not list the entire cast and crew. In the Baryshnikov version of The Nutcracker (1977), for example, the list of closing credits shown obviously does not include every single dancer, technician or designer who appeared in or worked on the program, while in more recent film and/or television productions of the work, the closing credits do tend to be quite long, and to list literally every single person who had been in or who had worked on the production.
no that started back when they made silent movies dont know what was the frist to do it though.
It's going to be hard to tell which was the first, there were some movies back as far as the forties that had some closing credits like Oliver Twist (1948) but they weren't complete like what you get now with pretty much everyone that had anything to do with a movie's production. That really started to be consistent in US films in the mid to late 70s. Around the world in 80 days (1956) closing credits pretty much replays the whole movie in an animated style which identifies the actors in the order they appeared. They've been there for a long time but it's hard to tell which one was really the first...sorry.