Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"

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From: si... Simon Turner
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:58

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On Sunday, in article
     <K8ydnS1unZJqiUHH...@giganews.com>
     am.sw...@btinternet.com "Andrew Swallow" wrote:

> On 20/04/2018 19:59, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> Sure, but that's not nearly as convenient as reading it off a list of
>> credits that scroll by slowly enough for you to read.  Edited credits
>> go by so fast that there's no way anybody could read it without
>> single-stepping the video (if the designers of your PVR will allow
>> you to do that).  I've concluded that the credits are no longer intended
>> to be read (at least as far as the networks are concerned), and the fact
>> that they're still there at all is merely to satisfy some sort of legal
>> obligation.
> 
> The credits allow the resume of cameramen and clothing designers to be 
> independently checked.

Film credits are often savagely truncated when shown on TV.  My
favourite was a film where the cast were listed on separate pages
(instead of scrolling) in alphabetical order of surname, rather than
first appearance/importance as usual; they cut off the final page,
imagining they were down at the level of "second man is bus queue" and
therefore didn't matter, which meant that some of the main stars were
cut out of the credits. 8-/

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Subject: Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
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